The following faculty, staff and graduate students are working in the arts and/or education this summer. Please click on the links to see what folks are up to.
If you are a student, faculty or alum and we have not announced your summer plans, please send your information to Shannon at sbskelton@ksu.edu.
Faculty/Staff:
James Davis
Executive Director/Resident Lighting Designer for The Clinton Showboat Theatre. Designing three of the five shows and overseeing day to day operations.
Always, Patsy Cline Lighting Designer: Ozark Actors Theatre
Chuck Leonard
Volunteer work with YMCA conference center in upstate New York; research dramaturgy project for A Midsummer Night’s Dream; designing an interactive and immersive experience inspired by PunchDrunk’s Enrichment projects. The idea is to transform a space to inspire or incite a literary or theatrical journey. Want to learn more about PunchDrunk to see what Chuck is working toward? Go here: https://www.punchdrunk.org.uk/
Jerry Jay Cranford
Director/Choreographer for ANNIE at The White Theatre at the Jewish Community Center of Kansas City featuring KSU alum, Lauren Taylor.
Director/Choreographer for 50th Celebration Production of GODSPELL at Starlight Theatre Kansas City (pending Union contract approvals) featuring KSU alums Darrington Clark, Noah Lindquist and Shon Ruffin.
Sally Bailey
Tracena Marie and Sally Bailey are writing an article on Barrier-Free Theatre for Inclusive Mental Health for Arts Education Policy Review (due July 1).
Sally Bailey is presenting on her book Drama in the Inclusive Classroom (published in April) at the American Alliance for Theatre in Education conference at the end of July.
Check out her book!
Shannon Blake Skelton
Working on a volume concerning Wes Craven and a book about the silent film comedian Harold Lloyd. Don’t know about Lloyd? Check out this webpage: https://haroldlloyd.com/
Graduate Students:
Amanda Sasser (shop GTA) is interning in drama therapy with Lisa Moreno, MA, RDT, LPC in Texas at the Children’s Bereavement Center Rio Grande Valley.
Megan Clark is working with Experimental Theatre at the Manhattan Arts Center
Olivia Davidson is teaching theatre classes at the Manhattan Arts Center.
Jared Adams and Kim Wong are directing summer camps for the Flinthills Summer Fun Camps for the middle and high school students.