Laura Jones, Associate Professor of Theatre, and Wendy Ishii, Artistic Director of Bas Bleu Theatre Company and adjunct professor of acting, were invited to present a special lecture demonstration for the International Federation of Theatre Research. Long-time members of the Samuel Beckett Working Group of IFTR, Jones and Ishii addressed the challenges of performing Beckett’s female characters on stage at the University of Stellenbosch near Capetown South Africa in July. Known for their unique abilities to “show” and “tell” how the Nobel-Prize-winning playwright’s words are interpreted in performance, Jones and Ishii’s work has been commissioned by Beckett scholars worldwide.

Eric Prince was appointed Chair of the Kennedy Center - American College Theater Festival National Playwriting Program (Region VII). He presented a paper for a UK conference dedicated to the Nobel Laureate Harold Pinter, in Pinter's presence, and also assisted Sir Tom Stoppard in hosting the government repressed Theatre of Belarus in one of its rare overseas visits. He is currently in collaboration with Professor Jose Luis Suarez Garcia on a College of Liberal supported project: a Spanish and English dual language short play/performance--event of Nobel prize-winner Samuel Beckett's political play "Catastrophe" on a theme of authoritarianism and resistance. The project will be the first staging of Beckett’s work for Hispanic audiences in Colorado and is probably the first bi-lingual staging of Catastrophe world-wide. Future plans include staging the play in local and regional schools and at an International University Theatre Festival to be hosted in Mexico.

Theatre program Director Walt Jones opens The 1940s Radio Christmas Carol - the much-anticipated follow-up to his 1940s Radio Hour - at Bas Bleu Theatre
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Jones fills in for an actor who couldn't reach the theatre due to weather - READ MORE
Jones and CSU student Dan Tschirhart win an Ovation Award from the Denver Post for Sound - READ MORE