{"id":1436,"date":"2010-08-10T20:23:34","date_gmt":"2010-08-10T20:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/?p=1436"},"modified":"2024-04-22T14:39:50","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T18:39:50","slug":"theater-alums-in-recent-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/theater\/2010\/08\/10\/theater-alums-in-recent-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Theater Alums in Recent News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A record number of Swarthmore College alums have  been nominated for the 2010 Barrymore Awards, the winners of which  will be announced in Philadelphia on <strong>October 4, 2010 <\/strong>at a ceremony inside the Walnut  Street Theatre.<\/p>\n<p>Pig Iron Theatre Company&#8217;s Fringe show from 2009, WELCOME TO  YUBA CITY, received a total of six nominations&#8211;a record for any  production to date in the group&#8217;s history.\u00a0 The  acting ensemble and creative team for YUBA CITY included Dito van   Reigersberg &#8217;94 (actor), Sarah Sanford &#8217;99 (actor), Kim Comer &#8217;09   (master electrician), and Lang Performing Arts Center staff member Dave Todaro (assistant lighting   designer).\u00a0 WELCOME  TO YUBA CITY enjoyed the largest audiences of any Pig Iron  production  at the Philadelphia Live Arts\/Fringe Festival since 1997,  and was also  the best-attended show of the entire festival last  September. \u00a0It was  reviewed by Jason Zinoman in the NEW YORK TIMES, and  the company hopes  to revive the production for tours in the near  future.<\/p>\n<p>The nominations for YUBA CITY are:<br \/>\nOutstanding Overall Production of a Play, Outstanding Direction of  a Play by Quinn Bauriedel &#8217;94 (Quinn is also a part-time faculty in  the Swarthmore Department of Theater), Outstanding Set Design by Mimi Lien, Outstanding Ensemble in a Play, Independence Foundation Award for  Outstanding New Play (for the ensemble and playwright Deborah Stein &#8217;99), and Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Play by Charlotte Ford (a Bryn Mawr alum and recent participant in Swarthmore Project in Theater).<\/p>\n<p>Sarah Sanford &#8217;99 has also been nominated for Best  Supporting Actress in THE HUNTER GATHERERS at Theatre Exile and The F. Otto  Haas Award for an Emerging Philadelphia Theatre Artist.<\/p>\n<p>You can  read a full list of nominees on the Theatre Alliance website.<\/p>\n<p>Also in the news, Pig Iron  will also premiere a new work at Christ Church Neighborhood House as  part of this year&#8217;s Philadelphia Live Arts Festival: CANKERBLOSSOM,  very freely inspired by Shakespeare&#8217;s A MIDSUMMER NIGHT&#8217;S DREAM.\u00a0 For CANKERBLOSSOM, director  Dan Rothenberg &#8217;95 has teamed up with cartoonist and pioneering puppeteer  artist Beth Nixon, whose fantastical cardboard creations work alongside  stop motion animation, video projection, live music, and Pig Iron&#8217;s  signature physical style to create this shadowy  fairytale land.\u00a0 For more information about the company and the show, check out their website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pigiron.org\/\">http:\/\/www.pigiron.org\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A record number of Swarthmore College alums have been nominated for the 2010 Barrymore Awards, the winners of which will be announced in Philadelphia on October 4, 2010 at a ceremony inside the Walnut Street Theatre. 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