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Senior Artist-in-Residence, Performing Arts Department in Arts & Sciences
Expertise: acting, directing, William Shakespeare, George Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wilde, Arthur Schnitzler, Federico García Lorca, Jean-Baptiste Poquelin Moliere
Bio: Whitaker has been associated as a director and actor with many professional theatres, including City Players, The Washington Stage Guild, The Round House Theatre, The Arena Stage, The Folger Theatre and New Playwright's Theatre. He has a special interest in directing the classics and style plays, notably the works of SWilliam Shakespeare, George Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wilde, Arthur Schnitzler, Federico García Lorca, and Jean-Baptiste Poquelin Moliere, as well as new plays and established contemporary works.
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Education:
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M.F.A. in Theatre at Florida Atlantic University
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M.A. in Dramatic Literature at The Catholic University of America
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The 1940s Radio Hour
Performing Arts Department to present Walton Jones musical Oct. 5 to 14
Sept. 21,
2007 --
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Live from the fabulous Hotel Astor in New York City, it's The 1940s Radio Hour! Set against the backdrop of World War II, Walton Jones' nostalgic ode to the glory days of big band music follows a group of broadcast has-beens and wannabes as they attempt to make it big on the "Mutual Manhattan Variety Cavalcade." Mimicing an actual radio broadcast, the show features nearly two dozen classic songs, including "Blue Moon," "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" and "Old Black Magic," as well as comedy segments, radio plays and period commercials.
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Hickorydickory
Performing Arts Department to present new work by Marisa Wegrzyn Sept. 29 to Oct. 8
Sept. 15,
2006 --
From Tennessee Williams to Shepherd Mead and A.E. Hotchner, Washington University boasts a strong tradition of original drama. This year the Performing Arts Department (PAD) in Arts & Sciences will celebrate that tradition with four original plays by alumni, faculty and students. The series begins Sept. 29 to Oct. 8 with Hickorydickory, a playful, magical-realist-style work by recent alumnae Marisa Wegrzyn.
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Dysfunctional family values
Performing Arts Department to present Escape from Happiness Nov. 11-20
Oct. 31,
2005 --
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Drugs and alcohol, anger and insanity, police corruption and (semi-) organized crime. Welcome to Escape from Happiness, a darkly comic portrait of a highly idiosyncratic family by Canadian playwright George F. Walker. In November, the Performing Arts Department (PAD) in Arts & Sciences will present six performances in the A.E. Hotchner Studio Theatre.
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After ?happily ever after?
Into the Woods explores the darker side of fairy tales April 1-3 and 8-10
March 16,
2005 --
What happens after "happily ever after"? Find out when the Performing Arts Department in Arts & Sciences presents the Into The Woods — Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's musical amalgam of fairy tale favorites — as its spring Mainstage production April 1-3 and 8-10.
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James Lapine
Distinguished Broadway writer and director to speak April 1
March 16,
2005 --
Veteran Broadway writer, librettist and director James Lapine will introduce Washington University's production of Into the Woods, his 1987 collaboration with Stephen Sondheim, with a talk at 7 p.m. Friday, April 1.
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The Good Person of Szechwan
Brecht's provocative modern parable in Edison Theatre April 16-18, 23-25
April 8,
2004 --
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In an unjust world, is it possible to be good? Such is the dilemma posed by The Good Person of Szechwan, Bertold Brecht's provocative modern parable about the tensions and alliances between virtue and ruthlessness. Washington University's Performing Arts Department in Arts & Sciences will present the show as its spring MainStage production April 16-18 and 23-25.
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Additional Background: In 2003, Whitaker directed Shakespeare's All's Well That Ends Well at Washington University and Harold Pinter's The Homecoming for City Players. He studied directing and acting with Robert Whitehead and Zoe Caldwell and co-directed Brian Friel's Dancing at Lughnasa with Caldwell at The Crest Theatre in Florida. He has taught at Washington Universiversity's summer program at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London for more than seven years. As an actor, Whitaker has been nominated for the Helen Hayes award and was winner of the Eisner Prize for Acting at the University of California at Berkeley.
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