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• Registration Information

• Janeve West accepts position as new Theatre Professor

• Music Man

• CATA 101 text Author come to Campus

Auditions

• MC One-Act Auditions "Get your 15 minutes of fame"

Internships

• MC Students head to the Ball Park

• MC Student to the Big Apple

• Do you need a place to stay during your summer internship?

Career Opportunities

• Are you looking for a job in the Indiana area?

• Are you looking for a FULL-TIME Summer Job?

Alumni News

• Monmouth College Alum Actress

Janeve West, who recently interviewed on campus for the position of Assistant Professor of Communication and Theatre Arts, has accepted our offer and will join CATA as a full-time faculty member this coming fall.  Professor West will teach Acting and Children's Theatre during the Fall Semester 2006 and Advanced Acting, Directing and Classical Theatre during the Spring Semester 2007.  Professor West comes to us with an M.F.A degree in Acting and Directing from Texas Tech. and a B.A. degree from Southwestern College (a small, liberal arts college in Kansas).  Most recently she has served for several years in a variety of capacities with the Omaha Theatre Company.  Professor West received enthusiastic support from many students and faculty who met her during the campus visit last month.  With the variety of experience and strong educational  background she brings with her, we are very pleased to have Janeve join us.

CATA 101 text Author come to Campus

Julia Wood will be making her visit to the campus 4/11-13, with her presentation on 4/12.  She will do a major CATA 101 Convocation open to the public on 4/12.  The convocation will be held in the auditorium for more information and the times please email Dr. Benita Dilley at bdilly@monm.edu

Julia Wood is the author of the CATA 101 text that Monmouth College Students use.  Monmouth goes on Easter Break immediately after her visit.

One of the most popular musicals to come out of the American theater scene in the last half century, Meredith Willson’s “The Music Man” will march into the Monmouth College Wells Theater for four performances April 6-9.

The curtain will open for the Thursday, Friday and Saturday performances at 7:30 p.m., while the Sunday performance is a 2 p.m. matinee. Tickets, which are $4 for Monmouth College students and staff, may be reserved by contacting Bill Wallace at 309-457-2374 or billw@monm.edu.

“The Music Man” debuted in 1957 with a story line and music that are as vibrant and popular today as they were to audiences then. It is the story of con man Harold Hill, played by junior Chris Walljasper of Donnellson, Iowa, who travels to the small town of River City, Iowa, to earn his fortune. But “there’s trouble in River City” as Hill, who even claims to be a professor of music, decides to convince the townspeople they need a boys’ band and then plans to run away once the boys have paid for instruments and uniforms.

Wagner studied at Monmouth College in Illinois, earning degrees in dramatics and music. In New York, she continued her voice and piano training, gaining experience as a soloist in various church choirs. In 1988, her college alma mater awarded Wagner an honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters. Wagner chaired a national committee that raised more than one million dollars to build a new theater at her college. At the new theater's opening night, Wagner reprised her role as Eleanor in The Lion In Winter in a production directed by her husband, Broadway producer Robert Willey.

Sara Ingersoll, junior and Brooke Morgan, sophomore, is a Public Relations and Communication Double Major at Monmouth College. This summer she will be with the Peoria Chiefs as a Public Relations and Marketing Intern. Morgan will be doing a variety of jobs within the stadium. She will be working closely to the theme of the night by putting together the music, video clips, 7th inning events, speakers, and promotions for that particular night. Ingersoll will be living in Peoria with my brother five minutes away from the internship which pays $400 a month. Morgan will be commuting from Havana, Illinois which is about 45 minutes away from her internship, while working 60 hour weeks and driving that long, to and from work, should test her. This internship with the Peoria Chiefs is a paid Internship. She hopes to learn more about public relations and communications throughout this internship and see if this is the kind of job that she will want to pursue in the future.

Morgan has actually already started her job there. She goes in every Monday for two hours and will start official work the Monday after Monmouth College graduation and continue throughout the summer.

Morgan found out about the internship from a friend of the family that goes to all of the games. She is an avid sports fan and thought this would be a perfect summer job. She interviewed with Piper and Chip, the PR and Marketing people that work at the Peoria Chiefs. She was then happy to hear 1 1/2 weeks later that she had received the job. Morgan actually found out that she got the position when she was in Paris and happened to check her email the same day that they had wrote her.

Morgan is looking forward to this new experience with the Peoria Chiefs while getting the chance to watch them play every night. Morgan will be working with Sara Ingersoll, a fellow Monmouth College student. The two will be living together next year so this will be a great opportunity for them to get to know one another better.

Heather Prater, sophomore at Monmouth College, will be interning this summer with the Today Show in New York City. She will be working with the executive producers to help produce the show, write stories, do research, go on remote shoots, dub tapes, do street interviews etc. She will even be on the show modeling clothes or getting a make over or whatever they need. Prater will be living in downtown Manhattan. Through the website called studenthousing.org she found an apartment to stay in for her internship this summer. This organization gets colleges to rent rooms to them for the summer for interns and summer school students. She will be in a brand new 48 story high rise studio like apartments. Prater’s place is fully furnished with a full kitchen and bathroom along with 3 other room mates! Her apartment is only 4 blocks away from NBC so she will not have to travel far.

The internship does not pay, however if she needs to travel due to the show, travel is stipend. Prater will be there from May 31-August 16. Prater got the internship due to her 3.74 GPA and by being involved in many organizations. When she set her goals of working in NYC for the summer, the TODAY show was the first place she sent her resume and cover letter to. Within 2 months, she got a call saying they were very impressed with my resume and that they would love to interview me. Dr. Benita Dilley, Professor Kelly Schultz and Jill Springsteen and Prater took a trip to NYC over spring break and had an amazing time.

Prater stated that, "First and foremost, I want to prove to myself that I can stand on my own two feet and make it in one of the toughest and most competitive major cities. Secondly, I want to fully understand how a major news network operates and the daily struggles the show goes through to be 10 years running as the number one morning show. I want to see both the production and anchoring/reporter side of the news and make some great contacts. Overall, I am just really excited about this opportunity and I hope that I really leave my mark on NYC. I want to explore the rich culture and history of NYC, make some unforgettable friends and have the experience of a lifetime. I also want to give Monmouth College a good name in the Big Apple and come back with plenty of stories and advice for younger CATA majors who want to go into media and just aren't quite sure how to go about their dreams."
 

Do you have an internship far away from home for the summer but do not have a place to live?  check out www.studenthousing.org to find a place to stay.  make sure that you type .ORG not .COM (.com is completely different website).

all you need to do is select your location and the website will help you find a great place to live.  No more not doing internships because you are afraid that you will live in the slums or not be able to even find a place to live, NOW YOU CAN!

visit:  www.studenthousing.org

Please, come auditions for our final class project of student directed 15 min excerpts and short plays. Auditioning on monologues that will be provided. One of the pieces is a musical, a short piece of music will be provided for those who wish to sing.

There are 19 roles being auditioned. Which one will be yours?

The times that you can auditions are at Wells Theatre, April 10th from 7 to 10pm, April 11th from 3:30 to 5pm, and April 11th from 7 to 10pm. Callbacks will be held on the 12th. You need not arrive at the beginning of the auditioning period.
 

And tell your friends!