Guest Artists

Spring 2004

José Rivera

José Rivera's plays are produced regularly across the country and have been translated into several languages. They include: The House of Ramon Iglesia, The Promise, Each Day Dies with Sleep, Cloud Techtonics, The Street of the Sun, Sonnets for an Old Century, Giants Have Us in Their Books, References to Salvador Dali, Make Me Hot, and Adoration of the Old Woman. His work has been seen at Ensemble Studio Theatre, Circle Rep, Playwrights Horizons and the Public Theatre in New York; Los Angeles Theatre Center, Berkeley Rep, La Jolla Playhouse and the Mark Taper Forum in California; the Humana Festival, Hartford Stage Company, Goodman Theatre and on the PBS series "American House," among others.

Honors include two Obie awards for playwriting (including one for Marisol) and a Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays Grant. Other awards are a Fulbright Arts Fellowship in playwriting, the Whiting Foundation Writing Award and a McKnight Fellowship. He was a wrinter–in–residence at London's Royal Court Theatre and co–created/produced the NBC–TV series, "Eerie, Indiana." Currently, Rivera is working on a musical version of Federica Garcia Lorca's Blood Wedding for Broadway, School of the Americas (commissioned by South Coast Rep) and Six Billion Devils for New York's LABYrinth Theatre Company.

Rivera will meet with students and faculty at an informal Brown Bag Lunch on Friday, March 5th at 12pm in the Payne Lobby. His play, Sueño, will be performed by the UT Department of Theatre and Dance March 5–12.

Ann Wallace

Ann is owner of Ann Wallace & Friends, a design studio and catalog business which she started in late 1992 specializing in textiles inspired by the decorative and popular graphic arts of the early 20th century. She assists her clients in making period sympathetic design decisions and dating and establishing provenence for period textiles. She has designed textiles for several important historic museums, most recently the Ruthmere House in Indiana, the Sherlock House in Wyoming, and Torrey Pines Lodge in California.

Ann has written numerous instructional and design articles for Sewing Decor, Colours, Twin Cities Reader, American Bungalow and Handmade, among others. She published the book, Arts & Crafts Textiles in America.

As a designer, Ann has been awarded Designer of the Month, Handmade, International Women in Design, Alliance of British Craftsmen, a study grant in Great Britain, Cambridge River Festival/Festival Panoply, Boston Critics Circle, and Blue Ribbon – U.S. Institute for Theatre Technology.

Ann has an M.F.A. in design from Carnegie Mellon University and a B.A. in Art History/French from Oberlin College.

Ms. Wallace will present her work to Department of Theatre and Dance design and costume students and faculty on March 4th and 5th.