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November 29, 2005
alumnus Gregory Hill writes...
Good morning everyone.
I got a call from Dr. Josal a few weeks ago about sending a rendering and a bio to Lance Brockman, but I thought it was just to fill up some empty wall space somewhere. I put the note up on the wall. So of course I just got a reminder email from Lance yesterday. He mentioned the Anniversary, and the blog. So I checked it out as well as the pages of history on the theatre department's website. It really brought back memories. And I promise I'll send something soon to add to the display.
I loved Minneapolis, the University, and the Theatre department. This was just before Rarig...so I did all that running around..from the Armory Annex to Nicholson to Scott Hall to Folwell and God knows where else. I had forgotten so much. But I've always had a really warm spot in my heart for my time there. One big memory was designing THE MADMAN AND THE NUN, directed by this crazy New Yorker (Joe Rassulo?) and featuring another crazy New Yorker, Ron Perlman. Anyone else remember it? Those years were a really good time...concentrated study and creation of theatre.
When I got the call that I had been awarded a Bush Fellowship a door was opening for me that I never expected and didn't fully appreciate. But it changed my life, and led to a career in entertainment that hasn't stopped. It's taken some funny turns...don't get me wrong...but my time there taught me (as much as anything else) that theatre and the performing arts could be a passion and a profession. The hard part would be making it a profession. Well, so far so good.
I'll check in occasionally and keep up with the blog...and hope that I can get away to come to the celebration in the spring.
Sincerely
Gregory Hill
Posted by utheatre at November 29, 2005 09:24 AM | Alumni News