{"id":3846,"date":"2012-06-12T14:43:39","date_gmt":"2012-06-12T14:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/?p=3846"},"modified":"2024-04-22T14:39:44","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T18:39:44","slug":"theater-alumni-in-the-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/theater\/2012\/06\/12\/theater-alumni-in-the-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Theater Alumni in the News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Coes &#8217;06, Visiting Professor of Sound Design in Spring 2012, is  thanked by sound designer Darron West at the Tony Awards for their work  together on PETER AND THE STARCATCHER on Broadway (Charles was Associate  Sound Designer for the production).\u00a0 Read the article about Darron here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tonyawards.com\/en_US\/nominees\/artists\/3EF60DD6-19D1-9EF1-56D16D104428CA73.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.tonyawards.com\/en_US\/nominees\/artists\/3EF60DD6-19D1-9EF1-56D16D104428CA73.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In a related story, the design work of Jeff Sugg &#8217;95, has also been  represented on Broadway in two shows this year: MAGIC\/BIRD (&#8220;the  basketball musical&#8221;, recently closed on May 12)  and the soon-to-open BRING IT ON (&#8220;the cheerleaders musical&#8221;, opening  in July). \u00a0For both productions, Jeff is credited as the Video or  Projection Designer, with his name on posters, press releases, etc., in  addition to the programs. \u00a0His work has been frequently mentioned in  reviews of these productions. For Broadway, Jeff has previously designed  33 VARIATIONS, by Moises Kaufmann, and CHINGLISH, by David Henry Hwang.  \u00a0He has been involved in the creation of these shows, their  pre-Broadway try-out productions, and national and international touring  versions of these shows. \u00a0Jeff taught the first class Integrated Media  Design offered by the Department of Theater in 2005, and was a founding  member of Pig Iron Theater Company. \u00a0So he now has a total of four  Broadway credits. \u00a0He remains dedicated, however, to his origins in  downtown\/off-off-Broadway work, through his ongoing collaborations with  his wife, Cynthia Hopkins, a noted performer\/composer\/writer in her own  right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Coes &#8217;06, Visiting Professor of Sound Design in Spring 2012, is thanked by sound designer Darron West at the Tony Awards for their work together on PETER AND THE STARCATCHER on Broadway (Charles was Associate Sound Designer for the production).\u00a0 Read the article about Darron here: http:\/\/www.tonyawards.com\/en_US\/nominees\/artists\/3EF60DD6-19D1-9EF1-56D16D104428CA73.html &nbsp; In a related story, the design [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/theater\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3846"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/theater\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/theater\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/theater\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/theater\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3846"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/theater\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6873,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/theater\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3846\/revisions\/6873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/theater\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/theater\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/theater\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}