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“SCene Partners Movie Night” is BACK on November 17th at 8pm at @thebroadwaterla Main Stage ✌️🎬

Tickets are now available (Link in our bio!!) Limited Seating at The Broadwater, so be sure to RSVP! Bring your favorite SCene Partner with you ✨

Let’s pack this theatre AND @theplungela with School of Theatre AND School of Dramatic Arts Alumni. Stay tuned for our lineup announcement 👀🥂

It’s going to be a great night! Can’t wait to see you!

Fight on!! Your hosts,

@adriennevisnic and @dfickas

#UniversityofSouthernCalifornia #USCSDA #USCSchoolofDramaticArts #USCAlumni #USCTrojans

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I’ve come HOME at last!!! It was a magical day back on campus @uscedu for @uscsda Alumni HOMECOMING WEEKEND kick off event roaming the old stomping grounds with some of my dear college friends! And celebrating year 25 as an alumni FIGHT ON✌🏽

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Grateful for the alumni feature, and forever proud to be a graduate of USC @uscedu : the USC School of Dramatic Arts @uscsda School of Cinematic Arts. @usccinema . Some of the best years of my whole life. Aaaaaaand not to brag but Magna cum laude 🤪
💛❤️Fight On!✌️👩🏻‍🎓 @uscdramaticartsalumni

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I included a whole bibliography of everything I mention in this video in today’s newsletter. If you want to see the list, DM me your email and I’ll forward it along 💕💕💕

And for the folks here on Instagram that I mention here, deepest bow and thank you: @ualberta_drama @bettyvoice @davidrowanley @priyism @voicejourney @bonniebainbridgecohen @bmcassociation (also @studiomarikotanabe @embodiedasana @mcyogirolferot thank you thank you) @uscdramaticartsalumni @fitzmauricevoicework @ktspeechwork @therealalexandrabillings and thank you @naranja_ines for collaborating with me on these videos!!

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When @brigaheelan called me last month to talk about a new show she was developing with psychic medium @jess_perlman and several of our other @uscsda friends, I didn’t know what to expect. Then she told me it was a séance mashed up with theatre and musical improv, and I think the first words out of my mouth sounded something like, “Huhhhwooowwwokaaaycoooool. Tell me more.”

One of the gifts of having trusted collaborators is that they know what you like, and Briga knows that across all the mediums I work in, I love a mash-up — of music, tones, genres, and formats — carefully crafted into something new. (Blame it on coming of age in the late ‘90s, when The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill fused hip-hop, neo-soul, gospel, reggae, and Motown into something brilliant and singular, and when both Scream and Buffy blended horror, mystery, mythology, and dark comedy into two of the most beloved genre franchises of the last thirty years. All three rocked my world.)

So I flew to New York and joined the most insanely talented cast and creative team, led by the ineffable force of nature that is Jess Perlman, and together, we continued developing this one-of-a-kind experience. Then, two weeks ago, we finally presented this deeply funny, profound, wild, and wondrous show to a packed room of producers and friends.

@ghostnotesnyc wasn’t on my bingo card for the year. But man oh man, aren’t the most magical things in life the ones you never see coming?

We’re working now on mounting a full production. I can’t wait to share more details soon. 👻🎵

📸 @hannahhollandphoto

Team: @greerling @thebenbram @lilsfullz @leahrichmusic @rach_saltz @juliaeasterlin @kenyonduncanmusic @emilygaggiano @philippelemm @drudin25 @asha_mody @karinacruz640 @thelucyosborne

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@wetunderbluesky @slausonrectheater @uscsda
RSVP in BIO

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Proud @uscsda @uscdramaticartsalumni

Cue The ol’ “high-school jock gets swept away by the Arts” cliché.

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Thursday May 28th, ‘Wet Under Blue Sky’ @ the Bing Theatre followed by a conversation with actor/filmmaker @octaviopisano and @slausonrectheater

RSVP with Link in Bio

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Happy spring, almost summer, Duende Duders! Hope you’ve been feeling the recharging and renewing energies that this rebirthing season brings! You know what recharged my creativity & soul vibrance lately? Discussing duende with my guest for this latest episode, the OG Duende Discusser - playwright, poet, librettist and professor Oliver Mayer! Oliver is a master word conjurer/architect of the gutsy and lyrical, a passionately rigorous explorer of life’s vibrancy and pain, and the reason this podcast exists in the first place! I was his @uscmfaplaywrights student at USC almost 17 years ago - omg! 😭 - and he introduced the concept of Lorca’s duende to my class during an exercise on unearthing taboos. In our convo, we get into how I responded to this visceral prompt, and the massive impact it and he had on me as an emerging playwright.

We also dig into how Oliver finds the most duende in moments “where the singer misses the high notes”, how he himself first discovered the concept of duende (I’d been wanting to know this forever!), & how his most powerful personal experience of duende was when, as a teenager, he witnessed the viscera-rattling athleticism of an opera’s Faustian final moments🔥

Oliver and I engage in an absolute love fest for the epic art effect and burning heart of our dearest duende lover - Spanish poet & playwright Federico García Lorca, he explains how the epic emotional toll of duende-rich playwriting - what he calls “a hurt business” - played a specific role in igniting painful confrontations for his male characters, and articulates how music helps him “surf” through his duende inspirations while dreaming up a play. AND, for the first time ever, I had a previous guest submit a question for Oliver! Such a provocative query, with a super beautiful response from Oliver.

It was such an honor to discuss duende with the person who first gifted it to me so long ago! I hope this very special discussion is a duende-y igniting to your creative souls, and energizes you the way it did me 🥰 Links in bio & stories to listen! 🩷

#duende #podcast #federicogarcíalorca #olivermayer #playwriting

@uscsda @uscdramaticartsalumni

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So pleased to see Alice Gibson, recent grad of USC School of Dramatic Arts and James Farrell, head of USC Alumni in UK, who came to opening night of In Some Dark Valley in London.

#uscalumni #uscsda #londontheatre #whitebeartheatre #pubtheatre

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ALUMNI! Get your tickets today.

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🎭 My visit to USC students studying this semester at the British American Drama Academy showed how energized and inspired they are by the program, delving into modes of training that open their eyes to theatre’s infinite possibilities and expanding their horizons as artists and people. It was fantastic to be with them and feel the magic.

#uscsda #usc #britishamericandramaacademy #bada #londontheatre

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