2011 Final Panel

David Furumoto is the Director of Theatre Productions for University Theatre in the UW-Madison Department of Theatre and Drama. He has performed with theatre companies across the country including the Berkeley Repertory Theatre Co., the Honolulu Theatre for Youth, the Alliance Theatre Co., the Huntington Theatre Co., the Seattle Children's Theatre Co., the San Francisco Mime Troupe, the Center Theatre Group, the Mark Taper Forum, the Minneapolis Children's Theatre, East West Players, Theatre of Yugen and others. He has also directed for some of the above companies and has written plays for young audiences. He holds both a BA and MFA in theatre from the University of Hawaii with a specialization in Asian Theatre and also holds a professional certificate in Japanese classical dance from the Onoe Dance School in Japan. Other awards include the Crown Prince Akihhito Scholarhsip, the Earl Earnst Award for Excellence in Asian theatre, Backstage West-Dramalogue Garland Awards for choreography and acting, L.A. Ovation nominee for Choreography and Featured performance in a Musical, also many awards for Highland Bagpipe playing.

Sarah Gubbins is The Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing's 2010-2011 Carl Djerassi Fellow in Playwriting. Sarah recently completed an MFA in Writing for the Screen and Stage at Northwestern University. Her first full-length play, Fair Use, was developed and produced during First Look at Steppenwolf in 2008.  She worked as a dramaturg at Steppenwolf on the new plays We All Went Down to Amsterdam, Men of Tortuga, The Butcher of Baraboo, and Gary. Fair Use is a Finalist in the Kendeda Graduate Playwriting Competition and won the Agnes Nixon Playwriting Award at Northwestern. Her short plays have been produced as part of Collaboraction's Sketchbook 5, The Rhino Fest, Estrogen Fest and Snapshots. Her play Out of Order was a Heideman Award Finalist in the 2007 Actors Theatre Ten-Minute Play Contest. Her plays have also been read or developed at the Public Theater, About Face Theatre, Chicago Dramatists, Next Theatre Company and Collaboraction.

Sarah Marty is the Director of the UW-Madison Continuing Studies in Theatre Programs.  She has a Master's Degree in Business from the Bolz Center for Arts Administration, an MS in Curriculum & Instruction, and a Bachelor of Music Education degree from UW–Madison.  Sarah was the 2008 recipient of the Bartell Award for Excellence in the Arts.  She works with a number of arts organizations in Madison including Four Seasons Theatre Company, the Madison Early Music Festival, Forward Theater Company, and Madison Theatre Guild. In addition, she is the Production Manager and Director for the UW Varsity Band Spring Concert.

Jacque Troy joined the staff at Milwaukee Chamber Theatre in the fall of 2006 and has enjoyed the unique opportunity to indulge both her passion for play script analysis and education.  She chose the University of Iowa for her undergraduate degrees in Theatre Arts, Communication Studies and Secondary Education, motivated specifically by the nationally-renowned Iowa Playwrights Workshop.  This defining experience awakened her love for examining and developing new plays.  In addition to over twenty years as a theatre educator in a variety of settings, Jacque has enjoyed a vital acting career. Since arriving here in 1997, she has acted with many of Milwaukee’s best known theatre companies; most recently The Tempest for Optimist Theatre, Duet for One at Milwaukee Chamber Theatre and Pride and Prejudice at Milwaukee Repertory Theatre.  She returns to the MCT stage next spring in Bus Stop.

Jennifer Uphoff Gray is the Artistic Director of Forward Theater Company and directed In the Next Room and Moonlight & Magnolias for their 2010-2011 season.  Other recent projects include directing a staged reading of A Thousand Words, by Gwendolyn Rice, for Milwaukee Chamber Theatre, Love’s Labour’s Lost for Milwaukee Shakespeare (“Best of 2008”) and The Diary of Anne Frank for Madison Repertory Theatre (“Best of 2008”). She produced (and directed for) the Madison Rep’s 2007 New Play Festival. Other credits include: the National Tour of Copenhagen, Associate Director of Copenhagen, Cabaret, The Blue Room (starring Nicole Kidman) and The Life on Broadway. Off-Broadway, she directed the world premiere of the musical Suburb. Her work has also been seen at Second Stage, Musical Theater Works, Ensemble Studio Theater, HERE (all in New York City) and the Chunchon International Theater Festival in South Korea. She holds a degree in Dramatic Literature and Stage History from Harvard College.

 

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