Producers: Denise V. Martel, Suzan L. Zeder, and David Justin
Assistant to the Producers: Corey Atkins
Festival Production Manager: Lori Grubbs
PR/Marketing Coordinators: Kristen Frakiewicz and Sally Vander Ghevnst
Guest Artist Coordinator: Jenny Connell
Artists Exchange Coordinator: Heather Koslov
Technical Director (Payne Theatre): Chad May
Technical Director (Brockett Theatre): Derek Moon
Technical Director (Lab Theatre): Szu–Feng Chen
Audio Consultant: Adam Dudley
Performances: April 9 – 15, 2007
All over Winship Drama Building
Tickets: All events free and open to the public
Media and Resources:
Synopsis: The University Co–op presents the Cohen New Works Festival is a biennial festival organized by the UT Department of Theatre and Dance that celebrates original works created by UT students, faculty, and guest artists. Audiences will experience a variety of performances, readings, choreography, guest artist panels, and workshops. The Festival is collaborative and multi–disciplinary in nature and offers students and faculty from every department on campus the opportunity to be involved. The 2007 festival features seven days of back–to–back events, and 89 performances of 27 projects created by undergraduate and graduate students from the Department of Theatre and Dance, the School of Music, the Department of Art and Art History, the Department of Radio–Television–Film, the School of Architecture, and School of Biological Sciences. Classes held in the Winship Drama Building are suspended in support of the event.
Festival Committee:
(* denotes Executive Committee)
Angie Ahlgren, Corey Atkins*, Wendy Bable, Andrea Beckham, Yvonne Boudreaux, George Brant, Chase Brindgartner, Meg Brooker, Stephanie Brown, Scott Bussey, Pamela Christian, Alex Cogburn, Greg Cornelius, Rusty Cloyes, Jenny Connell, Anastasia Coon, Douglas Dempster, Ashley DePalermo, Rachel Durkin–Drga, Denise, Forbes–Erickson, Kristen Frankiewicz, Yesenia Garcia, April Gentry–Sutterfield, Stephen Gerald, Nicole Del Giudice, Charlotte Griffin, Lori Grubbs*, Michelle Habeck, Katy Hallee, Alison Hart, Kelly Howe, Natasha Jarvis, David Justin*, Sydney Katz, Jenny Keto, Heather Koslov*, Sydney Katz, Sarah Lankenau, Diego Larrea, Kristin Leahey, Soo–Jin Lee, Larry Lehew, Amber Loftis, Maddie Lynch, Shelley Manis, Denise Martel*, Brandi Matthews–James, Jan McCauley, Beth McDonald, Anne Marie McKaskle, Yonatan Mendelsberg, Susan Mickey, David Modigliani, Derek Moon, Colum Morgan, Sarah Myers, Julie Nathanielsz, Candida Nichols, Kim Ngo, Eleanor Owicki, Nichole Palmietto, Deborah Paredez, Daymon Passmore, Ryan Pavelchik, Sara Rinner, Janna Rock, Chris Rusch, Erica Saleh, Robert Sanchez, Sarah Schultz, Tanya Schurr, Fadi Skreiker, Meg Sullivan, Spencer Sutterfield, Joan Thibodeau, Susan Todd, Eve Tulbert, Sally Vander Gheynst*, Eric Vera*, Stacy Wolf, Alex Wood, Leanne Zacharias, Suzan Zeder*
