Theater Professor published in theater journals

Becker, Becky. " Nollywood: Film and Home Video, or The Death of Nigerian Theatre." Theatre Symposium. 19 (2011): 69-80.

Becker, Becky. "Moving Wor(l)ds: An Interview with Tess Onwueme." West African Theatre and Performing Arts Journal. Inaugural issue. 1:1 (June 2011) 98-124.

Art Professor Selected for Tallahassee International Exhibition

Assistant Professor of Art, Elizabeth Roberts McFalls, was one of fifty
artists selected out of a total 400 artists who applied for the The 25th
Annual Tallahassee International Exhibition. Her work will be on display
through the end of September at The FSU Museum of fine Arts in Tallahassee
FL. For more information:
http://www.mofa.fsu.edu/pages/participate/tallahasseeinternational.shtml

Violinist advances in international competition

CSU senior violin student Suliman Tekalli (from Florida) advanced to the finals of the Rodolfo Lipizer International Violin Competition in Gorizia, Italy, after competing in three rounds (qualification, elimination and semifinals) against violinists from the US, Korea, Japan, Russia, China, Romania, Spain, Estonia, Slovenia, Armenia, and Italy.

Suliman will perform in the finals as soloist with orchestra violin concertos by Brahms and Bartok. As one of the six finalists, he is already guaranteed one of the prizes in the competition. Meanwhile, he has already been awarded three special prizes: € 400,00 for the best performance of Variations by R. Lipizer; € 400,00 for the best sonata performed in the semifinals; and € 400,00 for the best virtuoso piece performance by a semifinalist.

Parker panelist at Live Design Institute

Scott Parker, Technical Director of the Department of Theatre, will moderate the third annual LDI Portfolio Review at Live Design Institute 2010, held at the University of Nevada - Las Vegas. Young professionals will receive critiques and career advice from lighting, sound, and projection professionals.

Vocal student finalist in Atlanta Symphony Competition

The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Turner Classic Movies today announced that CSU student Joseph Brewer is one of three finalists for the “Atlanta Symphony Songster 2010” amateur vocal competition. Their YouTube.com video-entries are currently available at http://atlantasymphony.org/songsterfinalists. Finalists will sing “Over the Rainbow” with the Orchestra prior to the start of the The Wizard of Oz concert on Saturday, August 14, 2010 — the competition will also be streamed live on UStream.com. Audience members will select the winner by text message or by online voting. Winners will be announced at intermission of the concert by Ben Mankiewicz of Turner Classic Movies.

Joseph has studied voice with Kimberly Cone for five years. He performs with theatre companies around the region, including such roles including Jack in Into the Woods, Papageno in The Magic Flute, and Rusty Charlie in Guys and Dolls. Other shows include The Music Man, Oklahoma, Bye Bye Birdie, and Once Upon a Mattress. When not on stage, Mr. Brewer works at St Luke United Methodist Church in Columbus as a staff singer and accompanist, playing piano and organ, and the Springer Opera House, where he recently finished teaching Musical Theatre at the Springer Summer Academy. Mr. Brewer has said he is thankful to have the opportunity to be reunited with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra – many years ago he performed with the Orchestra as a boy soprano.

Theatre student wins Phi Kappa Phi scholarship

BATON ROUGE, LA— Melora Slotnick of Jonesboro was awarded a Study Abroad Grant worth $1,000 by The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi. The daughter of Melina and Michael Slotnick, she is a theatre student at Columbus State University. Slotnick will travel to the United Kingdom to continue her studies and broaden her horizons.
This honor counts Slotnick among fifty students nationwide to receive the Phi Kappa Phi Study Abroad Grant. This program is designed to help support undergraduates as they seek knowledge and experience in their academic fields by studying abroad.

Founded in 1897 and headquartered in Baton Rouge, La., Phi Kappa Phi is the nation’s oldest, largest and most selective all-discipline honor society. Phi Kappa Phi inducts annually more than 30,000 students, faculty, professional staff and alumni. The Society has chapters on more than 300 select colleges and universities in North America and the Philippines. Membership is by invitation only to the top 10 percent of seniors and graduate students and 7.5 percent of juniors. Faculty, professional staff and alumni who have achieved scholarly distinction also qualify.

Theatre professor published in Dramatics magazine

In the first of two articles (January and May 2009) in Dramatics Magazine , CSU Technical Director Scott C. Parker describes the fundamental objectives of the lighting designer’s work, the designer’s process of script analysis, and the use of research to envision what the show should look like. This month, May 2010, he outlines the next steps: figuring out where to hang the lighting instruments and how to control them to achieve the effects shown in the rendering, and communicating those solutions to the stage crew who will hang the lights in the theatre.

Dramatics is the Educational Theatre Association’s magazine for theatre students and teachers. Published monthly nine times a year (September through May), the magazine contains practical articles on acting, directing, design, and other facets of theatre; profiles of working professionals that offer insights into theatre careers; new plays; book reviews; news about new productions in New York and other major theatre centers; and a monthly calendar of EdTA events.