Summer 2012 Report from Current Students and Alumni
- Christina Manzo (’12) is currently interning as the Digital Projects Liaison at the Boston Public Library. Her responsibilities include finding local libraries that have less money to spend on the digitization of their collections and convincing them to loan the Boston Public Library their more valuable materials for scanning/photographing and uploading at their state-of-the-art facilities. She says, “My job is the perfect combination of my two majors in Dramaturgy and Communications and honestly, I’ve never been happier.”
- Tierra Bonser (’12) This is an exciting year for Tierra! She is graduating and looking forward to getting to work in the professional world. Her dramaturgy work for The Golden Age presented by Emerson Stage last year was nominated for the KCACTF and she was selected to represent Region 1 in Washington, D.C. in April to compete for a national title that will result in an internship at the O’Neill Festival over the summer. She is thrilled and honored and looking forward to Washington, D.C. She also assisted Magda on Cafe Variations, sponsored in part by ArtsEmerson and directed by Anne Bogart. She is working on dramaturgy for a new musical Darling being presented by Rareworks, directed by Michael Bello, book by Brett Ryback and music and lyrics by Ryan Scott Oliver. It is an exciting opportunity to work on a show that is still subject to rewrites and also her first experience with a musical.
- Amanda Coffin (’10) has been flexing her script reading skills for a few Boston area theatres including Boston Actor’s Theater and Fresh Ink Theatre (where fellow Emerson Dramaturg Jessie Baxter is literary manager!). She is serving as dramaturg for BAT’s spring production, Expecting, and will direct for their new play festival in the summer. Amanda recently performed in Whistler in the Dark’s Something Rotten: Shakespeare’s Hamlet…remixed. Amanda Coffin was chosen as one of three dramaturgs to participate in this retreat, created by Ilana Brownstein. Ten theatre artists worked and lived together for a week to create new work. Amanda says: “This was an extremely collaborative and imaginative process that stretched my skills and allowed me to grow as a dramaturg. I feel I have an excellent understanding of what it takes to work together to produce something that showcases everyone’s skills and strengths. Working on a lake in the woods of New Hampshire also gave me a strong appreciation for space and environment as a catalyst and inspiration for new work.”
- Katie Fleming (09) is still working on the props team at Sleep No More NYC. She was promoted for props master over the winter but she stepped down in February to be able to work on some exciting new developments in the space as well as continue her work as a theatrical deviser. Katie has been assisting Mikhael Garver of the New Ensemble since August, our show “Fornicated form the Beatles” goes up in NY in May. Katie also wrote a treatment for a multi media piece about mining in PA which she has gotten a lot of interest from other companies about producing. To develop this work she formed a collective, Holus Bolus, which makes its creative debut in March at Ugly Rhino’s piece at the Brooklyn Lyceum. Our contribution to the show included original films shot on 16mm then hand processed by Holus Bolus. This work will travel to the Edinburgh Festival this summer
