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Please take the opportunity to let us all know what you are doing! Email Amy Powell at marbe1ac@cmich.edu and tell us where you are at and what's been going on since you left CMU. It's a great way to stay connected!

ERIC KOCH (CMU Theatre Alum) is the Assistant Technical Director for the Seattle Children’s Theatre.

CLYDE SHEETS (BFA Theatre, '88), received an Isadora Duncan Dance Award for Visual Design at the Bay Area Dance Awards. The Izzie award recognized the work of the entire design team for Hotel of Memories by Deborah Slater Dance Company. Clyde contributed the lighting and set design, collaborating with costume, set piece, and video designers. The Izzie's are awarded annually, drawing from nominations throughout the Bay Area.

JONATHON (FADDY) HOOD is the current DJ Operations Manager and Resident Deejay for Fig Media Incorporated in Chicago.

MICHELLE HOOKS-STACKPOLE will be appearing in Breathe Art Theatre Project’s production of David Lindsay-Abaire's wild and wicked comedy Wonder of the World at Detroit's Furniture Factory, Friday, April 27 to Saturday, May 12. Kevin Young (2006 Wilde Award and Free Press Nominee) is directing this comedy adventure about a wife who discovers a scandalous object in her husband's drawer and then flees to the honeymoon capital of the world - Niagara Falls - in a frantic search for the life she thinks she's missed
out on. Armed with a "to-do list" that includes "learn Swedish, eat venison, witness an execution, wear a large wig," she crosses paths with an assortment of lunatics as she embarks on a journey of self-discovery. Playwright, David Lindsay-Abaire, is best known for comedies Fuddy Meers and Kimberly Akimbo. Reserve tickets for April 27, 28 and 29 performances by April 17 and receive a "Buy 1, Get 1 Free Deal". Call 313-831-1939

BEN COLE will be a company member next year at the Orlando Shakespeare Festival.

ED STEVENS will be appearing in Oedipus Complex at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago. Goodman Artistic Associate and Tony Award- winning director and adaptor Frank Galati reimagines Sophocles' tragedy, fusing it with the words and ideas of Sigmund Freud-the man whose revolutionary theories crossed the boundaries of science by using the art of myth, metaphor and dream to bring meaning to the ultimate human drama. Oedipus Complex opens April 28th and will run until June 3rd.

PHIL POWERS is appearing in the premiere of When The Lights Come On at the Purple Rose Theatre in Chelsea, Michigan. Char Swarthout is an understudy for the production and Stef Din is the stage manager. When the Lights Come On will run through June 2, 2007. Tickets and group sales reservations are available now at (734) 433-ROSE (7673.)

CHRIS BURNS is appearing in two films, Somebodies and Soup, which are currently screening in the Atlanta Film Festival.

HOWARD KIEM was inaugurated as the president of Hesston College in Kasas in 2006.

JOHN GRAY will be touring Romania for a month this spring in Old Clown Wanted (Trap Door Theatre, Chicago) by Romanian playwright Matei Visniec.   The Trap Door Theatre has been invited to The International Theatre Festivals of Arad, Sibiu (which incidentally has been named the "Cultural Capital" of Europe this year) and Bucharest.

CARMEN YURICH is opening Spamalot at the Wynn in Las Vegas, starring John O'Hurley. Carmen is the Dance Capt/Swing in the show.

KRISTIN MELLIAN is currently playing the Virgin Mary in a production of The Miracle in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee about the life of Jesus Christ.  There are live camels, donkeys, horses and sheep on stage and flying angels.

KELLI CRUMP will be among the 16 collegiate actors competing for one of two coveted Irene Ryan Acting Scholarships. She advanced to the prestigious national finals as a winner in the Region III American College Theatre Festival (representing Western Illinois University), held in January in Milwaukee, WI. Kelli will be continuing her education at the National Theatre Conservatory's Master of Fine Arts program in Denver beginning Fall of 2007.

RYAN HOPAK is writing for the Fox television show "Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?"

WADE WILLIAMS (Theatre Alum) spent the last three years as the Assistant Theatre Director and Technical Director for the Classic Center in Athens, Georgia.  He spent the four years previous to that as the Stage Manager and Technical Director for the University of Georgia’s Performing Arts Center.  Wade is now a lighting systems sales and integrator for Barbizon Lighting Company in Atlanta.