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Nik Hoback, '08
Major: Theatre

Current Position: Hoback is a professional actor in Portland, Ore., and a member of two professional nonprofit theatre companies. He also is interning with Artists Repertory Theatre, where he handles events and fundraising.

Why Whitworth? "The liberal arts concept allowed me to take classes that I normally wouldn't be able to take at a conservatory. The small campus was also a draw. I didn't want to be going five city blocks to my next class."

Whitworth Activities: Danced with Jubilation and the Ballroom Dance Club, and performed with Cool Whip. He also emceed Warren Peace, Mock Rock and the bachelor auction.

Quote: "Whitworth professors treat their students like professionals. My classmate Josh Sawtell and I were in a show together after graduating, and it struck us how much more prepared we were than some of the cast. Also, performance theory with Professor Diana Trotter pushed each student creatively to reach new potential, and has definitely helped me to create new work."

Influential Whitworth Experiences: "I came to Whitworth for the chance to get a broader education and try out other subjects in addition to theatre. The Core program helped shape me by asking questions about what I believed in and where I stood on major life subjects."

Career Goals: "The dream for me isn't New York or L.A., but the Oregon Shakespeare Festival or the Colorado Shakespeare Festival. If I could live off doing Shakespeare, I'd be a happy man. I'd love any job that allows me to continue what I'm doing now and raise a family."

Here's what some Whitworth graduates are doing with their theatre degrees:

• Lexi Scamehorn, '09, works with Tacoma Musical Playhouse's education program. She directs and choreographs shows for children ages 6-18.
  
  
• Sarah Thomson, '09, is music director for the Walla Walla Community College Children's Theatre.
  
  
• Matthew T. Park, '08, and Beau A. Chevassus, '06, perform in their own mime troupe, Beyond the Glass, in Seattle.
  
  
• Alicia Doyl, '07, works at a number of theatres in Seattle, teaches theatre part time to elementary students, and works at Pacific Northwest Ballet.
  
  
• Katie Mesaros, '07, has been stage managing a variety of shows in Seattle, including ASMing Beauty and the Beast with Broadway Bound, a theatre for kids. During summer 2010 she worked in the San Juan Islands stage managing Henry V with Island Stage Left.
  
  
• Jennifer Bacon, '06, works for Walt Disney World performing in parades, shows, meetand- greets and character dining. She also portrayed 4-year-old Annie, from the Little Einsteins, in a traveling Disney show with Feld Entertainment.
  
  
• Crissy A. Greenberg, '06, is an associate attorney at Halpern & Oliver, PLLC, in Olympia, where she advocates for people with physical and/or mental impairments. Before moving to Olympia, she used communitybased theatre strategies in her work with Spokane's nonprofit Center for Justice.
  
  
• Silvia Lazo, '06, is executive assistant to the Spokane Opera and is completing an M.Ed. at the University of Montana.
  
  
• Seth Ambrose, '05, teaches music in San Francisco and is a licensed trainer in the Alexander Technique.
  
  
• Chelsea Globe-Kallio, '05, is pursuing a master of divinity degree at Seattle University. She was with Open Door Theatre for two years, performing social-issue plays for schools in the Seattle area.