Martine Kei Green-Rogers
Associate Professor Martine Kei-Green Rogers was named interim dean of the Division of Liberal Arts at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. She assumed the role on July 1, 2021. According to a prepared statement from UNCSA, Green-Rogers will lead a full-time faculty of 14 who teach courses in composition, foreign languages, history, humanities, literature, mathematics, media studies, philosophy, psychology, science, and writing.
Photo from "The Visitor" by Sara Krulwich/The New York Times
Sun Hee Kil
Department of Theatre Arts Associate Professor Sun Hee Kil served as the sound designer for the world premiere of the musical “The Visitor” at Public Theater in New York. Kil’s sound design was called “ethereal” in the New York Times’ review of the production. Kil also designed the online global audio experience in a new immersive audio production of the musical “The Color Purple Audio Experience: A Benefit for Black Womxn.”
Kil is currently designing the world premiere of the musical “The Suffs,” which opens in April 2022 at Public Theater. In August 2022, Kil will be featured as one of six finalists at the 2022 World Stage Design exhibition in Calgary, Canada, in the category of professional sound design.
[left to right] Will Sturdivant, Brittany Proia, and Vanessa Morosco in "The Tempest" at Great River Shakespeare Festival in summer 2021. Photo by Beth Gardiner
Brittany Proia
Department of Theatre Arts adjunct lecturer Brittany Proia performed in and music directed “The Tempest” and “Great Expectations” at the Great River Shakespeare Festival in Winona, Minnesota. In August, Proia produced a developmental residency of the new queer climate-doom comedy “Bloom Bloom Pow” by Genevieve Simon. And in October, Proia directed and produced a developmental workshop of “Meet You Downstairs,” a new play by Katy Copeland as part of the Voices of Women Theatre Festival in Tampa, Florida.
Katya Stanislavskaya composes at the MacDowell residency, New Hampshire, May 2021
Katya Stanislavskaya
Assistant Professor Katya Stanislavskaya received support from several organizations to develop her new musical, “The Poorhouse Project,” which she spent two weeks writing and composing in May 2021 in New Hampshire as a MacDowell Fellow in Theatre. In summer 2021, SUNY New Paltz Theatre Arts students Christopher Lunetta and Gina Lardi received a SURE Grant to record an eight-song demo of the musical. In October 2021, an excerpt was performed in a BMI Musical Theatre Workshop masterclass with Broadway director Sarna Lapine. Stanislavskaya received a fall 2021 Drescher Leave, which enabled her to finish a draft of the musical and present part of it at Gainesville Theatre Alliance in Georgia. Stanislavskaya will return to Georgia in February 2022 to present the full piece at the GTA New Works Festival.
"The Poorhouse Project" examines America's relationship with poverty and morality by focusing on two female protagonists: a privileged charity reformer and a working class single mother. Some of the musical is set in Ulster County Poorhouse, current home of the Ulster County Fairgrounds.
