DIANE BENEDICT, chair of the Theatre Arts Program, played Eleanor of Aquitaine in the “Lion in Winter” this fall. The production ran in November and early December at the Long Beach Playhouse, an Equity-waiver theater.
WOJCIECH KOCYAN, pianist and instructor in the Music Department, played two concerts in Gliwice, Poland, for the Metropolitan Theater Night Festival. He played a chamber music performance with the Silesian String Quartet, and gave a solo piano recital. He also has made recent appearances in Mexico City with Sinfonia Vratislavia Chamber Orchestra.
DEBRA LINESCH, chair of the Marital and Family Therapy Department, and PAIGE ASAWA, associate clinical professor, presented papers at the American Art Therapy Association conference in Sacramento, Nov. 3-7, 2010. Linesch shared her work in counseling and intercultural training, as well as the use of art therapy as a clinical tool for helping immigrant families from Mexico. Asawa discussed her work with trauma as director of the Helen B. Landgarten Art Therapy Clinic, a service outreach endeavor within the department.
JANE BRUCKER, professor of studio art, had exhibitions at the Marin Arts Gallery in San Rafael and the Cladwell Gallery of the Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena. Her work was reviewed in the Los Angeles Times and on KCRW.
DIANE MEYER, assistant professor of photography in studio arts, received a grant from the Santa Monica Artists Fellowship in July. She is among the artists in the current group show “Bike Culture” at the Sweeney Art Gallery at the University of California, Riverside.
SAERI CHO DOBSON, assistant professor of graphic design in studio arts, was exhibited at galleries in Seoul, South Korea, and at Jaus, an artist-run gallery in Los Angeles.
JUDITH ROYER, C.S.J., professor of theatre arts, reports on another award for “a show of hands,” a new play by Mark Marino. It was developed over the past two years by Royer, Marino, a team of LMU students, guest artists and alums as part of the Playwrights Center Stage Guest Writers Series. It selected as one of 10 finalists for the Nuestras Voces competition at Repertorio Espanol, where it received a staged reading Dec. 14th in New York. It has also been selected as one of two Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival Region VIII finalists for the David Mark Cohen Award, a national award for college theater.
