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We would love to hear of your accomplishments, career paths, special news, awards, and changes in your address. You may contact us at the address listed below. Please include your full name (including last name while at UF), major, year/degree, phone number, current mailing address, and current email address.Peg Richardson
ATTN: ALUMNI
College of Fine Arts
101 Fine Arts Building A
P.O. Box 115800
Gainesville, FL 32611
You may also contact our alumni listserv: SoTDAlumni-L@lists.ufl.edu
Alumni Notes
Two weeks after earning his MFA degree in 2003, Jacob Pinholster became an assistant to projection designer Elaine McCarthy on Wicked. Pinholster's Broadway credits include the new Beach Boys musical Good Vibrations, and Spamalot.
J. Salome Martinez, Jr. (MFA 2004) is a popular New York actor who has appeared on Law and Order and the Conan O'Brien Show. He is a Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival national award winner in both comedy and vocal performance.
Message from an alum
So
What's Next??
by Julie Ballard MFA 2004
Overlaplighting
After graduating from the University of Florida with my MFA in lighting design, I decided to move to Chicago. Talk about being in the right place at the right time! I was fortunate enough to be the lighting designer for a dance festival where I had contact with 32 different artists. Working in a festival setting, you have to be good and fast. I have since had the opportunity to work with some of those artists again in their own concerts. I have also lit 2 world premiers in dance and one in theatre.
Reality does set in, you know. The one about being in the "real world," the spaces are not always as nice as Constans or the Black Box. You don't always have the toys that you have UF. But what you do have, in my opinion, is much more important: the drive. The artists that I have had the opportunity to work with in Chicago share the same love and passion for dance and theatre that I have, and as result, whether I have 12 lights or 200 lights, we put on a great show. The Chicago audiences have also not let us down; they come in support of the Chicago arts.
I look forward to spending some more time in Chicago, and I ask...so what's next??
by Julie Ballard MFA 2004
Overlaplighting
After graduating from the University of Florida with my MFA in lighting design, I decided to move to Chicago. Talk about being in the right place at the right time! I was fortunate enough to be the lighting designer for a dance festival where I had contact with 32 different artists. Working in a festival setting, you have to be good and fast. I have since had the opportunity to work with some of those artists again in their own concerts. I have also lit 2 world premiers in dance and one in theatre.
Reality does set in, you know. The one about being in the "real world," the spaces are not always as nice as Constans or the Black Box. You don't always have the toys that you have UF. But what you do have, in my opinion, is much more important: the drive. The artists that I have had the opportunity to work with in Chicago share the same love and passion for dance and theatre that I have, and as result, whether I have 12 lights or 200 lights, we put on a great show. The Chicago audiences have also not let us down; they come in support of the Chicago arts.
I look forward to spending some more time in Chicago, and I ask...so what's next??