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Alumni Achievements

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

• Alicia Doyl, '07, works for AmeriCorps, helping teachers in New Mexico incorporate theatre techniques in their curriculum.
  
  
• Kasey RT Graham, '03, spent 2005-06 as assistant musical director of the national touring production of Oklahoma. During 2006-07, he was musical director of the national touring production of The Producers. He currently lives and works in New York City.
  
  
• Jacob Rorem, '05, is touring with Missoula Children's Theatre.
  
  
• Chelsea Globe, '05, works with the Open Door Theatre, which performs social-issues plays for schools in the Seattle area.
  
  
• Nate Tomsheck, '00, is an assistant professor of theatre and technical director for Price Theatre at LaGrange College, in Georgia. He designs scenery and lights for local theatres and small professional theatres outside Atlanta. Tomsheck earned a master of fine arts degree in technical theatre from the Yale University School of Drama.
  
  
• Seth Ambrose, '05, teaches music to children in San Francisco and is earning certification as a trainer in the Alexander technique.
  
  
• Heather Botts, '05, handles public relations for Seattle Children's Theatre and performs with the Taproot Theatre Company.
  
  
• Sarah Larson, '04, works for Wycliffe Bible Translators in the Philippines, where she uses interactive theatre techniques with women and children living in villages.
  
  
• Timothy Hornor, '97, earned an M.F.A. in acting from the University of Nebraska; he has done stage and film work in Seattle, where he performed with the Seattle Shakespeare Company, and he is currently working in Hollywood.
  
  
• Jennifer Bacon, '06, tours with Disney World productions and has played the female leads in Peter Pan and Alice in Wonderland.
  
  
• Andrew Dalzell, '93, co-owns an L.A.-based company, Wasted Monkey Productions, which handled the sound-system design and installation, and show-control design and programming for Universal Studio's The Mummy Returns attraction. Dalzell won a Garland Award for sound design in 2002, and was nominated for the 2002 L.A. Weeklies awards in the sound category. Dalzell was also nominated in the category of best sound in a larger theatre for the 2002 L.A. Ovation Awards.
  
  
• David Collins, '97, is a sound designer with George Lucas' famed Skywalker Ranch in California.
  
  
• Chrystal Honn, '83, is owner and president of Imagination in Motion.
  
  
• Brooke Kiener, '99, who completed her M.A. in educational theatre at New York University, is a member of the theatre faculty at Whitworth. Kiener has also appeared on local and regional commercials and on cable television in Spokane.
  
  
• Kevin Brady, '96, is acting in Seattle. He isplaying the leading role in Taproot Theatre's, Candida, by G.B. Shaw. He also acts regularly with the Tapestry Theatre of Seattle and Pacific Theatre of Vancouver, B.C., and has appeared in a nationally televised commercial broadcast.
  
  
• Lesley Williams, '96 is a member of the Pacific Repertory Theatre Company, in Venice Beach, Calif.
  
  
• Joel Hobson, '99, who completed his M.F.A. in technical theatre in Georgia, is a member of the theatre faculty of Pacific College, in Forest Grove, Ore., where is he also the technical director. He recently served for two years as the technical and lighting designer for the Des Moines Playhouse, in Des Moines, Iowa.