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Theatre and speech graduates

Nicky Dutt ’06 and Elizabeth Zurn ’06 are theatre graduate students at Bowling Green State University in Ohio.

Amanda Ytzen ’05 earned an M.F.A. in costume design from Minnesota State University, Mankato.

After graduation, Lee Fiskness ’03 was a freelance theatre artist in St. Paul, Minn. He worked on Forbidden Christmas for the Guthrie Theatre, which starred Mikhail Baryshnikov. Currently he is in the lighting design M.F.A. program at Northwestern University.

Steve Hydeen ’02, Misty Jung ’01, and Timothy ’03 and Sarah ’01 Schoenfeld founded 88 Improv, a clean comedy club in Omaha, Neb. The company performed at both the Kansas and Minnesota fringe festivals in 2006.

While a theatre graduate student at New York University Tisch School of the Arts, Amanda Baker-Vande Brake ’02 was a costume/wardrobe intern for Romance & Cigarettes, a musical written and directed by John Turturro and produced by Joel and Ethan Coen. Currently she is a marketing associate for the Orange County Performing Arts Center near L.A., Calif.

Matt Foss ’01 has an M.F.A. in theatre performance from the Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University. He is currently pursuing a doctorate in theatre studies and directing at Wayne State University in Detroit. His recent credits include work at The Second City under the direction of founder Bernie Sahlins, Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, American Theatre Company, and four summer tours with Montana Shakespeare in the Parks.

Colette Johnson ’00, New York City, earned an M.F.A. in playwriting from the Actors Studio Drama School. A member of the Dramatists Guild, her plays have been produced at schools, festivals and small theatres. Two of her one-act plays, "Thanksgiving Dinner" and "Guitar" were produced by Tongue in Cheek Theater, New York City, in November 2006.

Cora Vander Broek ’00 lives and acts in Chicago. In October 2006, Chicago Tribune theater critic Chris Jones named her one of five "scene stealers" for her work in Griffin Theatre Company's revival of Sidney Kingsley's "Dead End."

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