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Drama
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drama

DRAMA 171

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(5)
Course Long Name
The Broadway Musical
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The Broadway musical was created predominantly by people marginalized from mainstream society. Examine this uniquely American art form through issues of race, gender, sexual orientation, social justice, and equality. Taught by the emeritus artistic director of Seattle’s 5th Avenue Theatre.

New Faculty Spotlight: Nikki Yeboah

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Dr. Nikki Yeboah will join the UW School of Drama this fall as our new Assistant Professor of Playwriting. As the first full-time faculty member hired in the playwriting area since the retirement of Executive Director and playwriting professor Betty Comtois in 1993, Yeboah will be instrumental in designing and implementing the school’s playwriting pedagogy.</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></p>

Alumni Spotlight: Malie Fujii

<p>UW Drama alum Malie Fujii <i>(she/her)</i> is a proud Yonsei Japanese American who pronounces her name “muh-LEE-ay foo-JEE-ee” and resides on the lands of the Coast Salish, Canarsie, and Munsee Lenape peoples. She works primarily in stage and production management, prioritizing projects that center Global Majority (BIPOC) artists, communities, and abundance. Recent credits include <i>Twelfth Night,</i> <i>As You Like It, Shout Sister Shout!

UW Drama alum Ada Limón (BA 1998) to give keynote address at 2021 School of Drama graduation ceremony

<p><span>Ada</span><span> Limón, a current Guggenheim fellow, is the author of five poetry collections, including <em>The Carrying</em>, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry. Her fourth book <em>Bright Dead Things</em> was named a finalist for the National Book Award, a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. She serves on the faculty of Queens University of Charlotte Low Residency M.F.A program and lives in Lexington, Kentucky.</span></p>

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