<p>Meet Rosemary Jones, a double major in comparative history of ideas and drama, specializing in stage management. This is Rosemary’s second year at UW and she will be graduating in the Fall of 2020. Rosemary grew up in Gig Harbor WA, completed running start in high school, and then chose to attend the UW. Initially, she wasn’t intending to be a drama major.</p>
<p>Today we have bittersweet news to share. Professor Tim Bond, an alum of the UW School of Drama’s Professional Director Training Program (MFA 1983) who has taught acting and directing at the School of Drama since 2016, will become the new Artistic Director of TheatreWorks Silicon Valley. Bond will take the helm from founding Artistic Director Robert Kelley, who will have served an extraordinary fifty seasons in that role when he steps down in June 2020.</p>
<p>The University of Washington School of Drama, under the leadership of Interim Executive Director Lynn Thomas and Interim Associate Director Geoff Korf, is announcing several new faculty and staff appointments.<br /><img src="/sites/drama/files/images/frace_jeffrey.jpg" width="60" height="75" alt="Jeffrey Fracé" title="Jeffrey Fracé" style="margin: 10px;" caption="false" align="left" /></p>
<h2>A hearty congratulations to all the members of the UW School of Drama family who were nominated for a 2019 Gregory Award! Nominees are:</h2>
<p><strong>Holly Arsenault</strong> (UW Drama staff member; BA 2001) is nominated for Outstanding New Play for<em> The Great Inconvenience</em> at Annex Theatre</p>
<p><span>Our Meet an MFA series continues today with recently graduated PATP actor Taylor Jones!</span></p>
<p>Below is the full text of UW Drama PATP alum Sunam Ellis' (MFA '15) keynote speech at the UW Drama 2019 Graduation Ceremony. We feel sure you will find it as funny, wise, and inspirational as our graduates did. Happy graduation! </p>
<hr /><p>Thank you faculty, guests, families, friends, and graduating class of 2019 for having me here today. I am truly humbled.</p>
<p>Director Jane Nichols' director's note for<em> The Learned Ladies</em> illuminates this production while also serving as a beautiful treatise on the rigors of comedic performance and why we need it, maybe more than even, right now. Please enjoy.</p>
<p>"Director's Note</p>