#6 – It Has Begun (Continued)

Hopefully, a new blog post will be coming sometime in the next week or so.  It would be a giant understatement to say that it has been an action-packed 1st month as the new chair of the Theatre Arts dept, and I have not yet been successful in my quest to discover my elusive “chair-zen.”  [...]

#5 – It Has Begun

         

#4 – TED talks: “The true power of the performing arts” (CC)

Happy Labor Day!   This TED talk has a captions/subtitles feature immediately below the viewer. http://www.ted.com/talks/ben_cameron_tedxyyc.html

#3 – In the Pipeline

I have a number of exciting announcements in time for 2011-12. 1) There is a new alliance between the Theatre Arts and Interpretation Departments at Gallaudet University, with GIS (Gallaudet Interpreting Services) as a major player.  The new residency of Faction of Fools –as discussed in my previous post—at our theatre department is exactly why [...]

#2 – Becoming “Foolish”

Astonishingly enough, the Washington, DC metropolitan area has become a theatre hotbed in recent years, with 60+ companies active within a 25-mile radius, creating another hotbed of opportunities for theatre students from local colleges and universities.  Gallaudet is in a position to capitalize on that, which is why I’m pleased to announce that Faction of [...]

#1 – Welcome

My name is Ethan Sinnott, the new chair of Gallaudet University’s Theatre Arts Department, and welcome to Elstad Island, a new blog covering the latest about Gallaudet theatre. Why “Elstad Island”?  It was inspired in part by a friend, also a Gallaudet theatre alum, who remembers the Elstad—fondly and not—as this crazy, strange, landlocked island.  [...]