YESENIA GARCIA HERRINGTON
appeared in two regional commercials this summer: H-E-B and TX Lottery, as well as two national commercials: Frito's and Lowe's.
Yesenia also performed in a staged reading for Raul Garza at the Rite Out Loud Festival at the Scottish Rite Theatre.
LAURA NEILL
workshopped her play
Winter People
at the O'Neill National Playwrights Conference this summer.
JAMIE ROGERS
performed as Krogstad in Different Stages' production of
A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen in June and July.
KRISTEN ROGERS
served as the dramaturg for Stagedoor's production of
Grounded by George Brant at the Margo Jones Theatre last spring in Dallas, TX.
Kristen also directed a new one-man show,
Don't Blame the Car, written by and starring Jaston Williams (of
Greater Tune fame), which performed at the Classic Theatre of San Antonio in June and at the Grand 1894 Opera House in Galveston in August.
GREG ROMERO
was a "featured playwright" for Hyde Park Theatre's Play Slam on July 17th. They did a staged reading of a 15 minute excerpt from his full-length play,
The Babel Project
.
His short play,
Bulldozers
, was produced by New Manifest Theatre Company in Austin, August 1 - 4, as part of their Manifest Minifest of New Plays.
Greg was also a Teaching/Playwriting Artist at the Inge Center for the Arts' Playwrights Discovery Program in Independence, Kansas from July 22 - August 1.
His short play,
The Elephant and the Light in Claire's Suitcase
, will be published by Northwest Playwrights Alliance and University of Idaho. In support of this publication, the play will be read at Seattle Repertory Theatre on October 28, and the University of Idaho on November 1 & 2.
Finally, Greg has been selected as one of 5 pilot members of the newly-formed Hyde Park Theatre Playwrights Group in Austin, Texas. The group meets bi-weekly to experiment and share work, and receives developmental support from Hyde Park Theatre from August 2019 - June 2020
JONATHAN YOUNG provided fight direction for the Georgetown Palace's main stage production of Disney's
Newsies opening August 30th. For tickets, visit
www.georgetownpalace.com