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SETS: SETS GRADS AT WORK

Two SETS Theatre Studies graduates have recently been appointed to artistic directorships at major theatres, Thomas Morgan Jones at Theatre New Brunswick (one of the country's largest regional theatres) and Nina Lee Aquino to Toronto's Factory Theatre (one of the leading theatres in the country doing new work).

SETS: FACULTY AWARD

Professor Christine Bold has received the John Topham and Susan Redd Butler Off-campus Faculty Research Award from the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies, Brigham Young University, for her research on "Vaudeville Indians." She will also be a plenary speaker at the ACCUTE conference in May 2016 in Calgary.

SETS: NEW BOOKS

Among recent book publications from SETS faculty are Ajay Heble and Rebecca Caines, The Improvisation Studies Reader, and Dionne Brand, Love Enough. Congratulations to all!

SETS: FACULTY AWARDS

SETS faculty member Christine Bold has been awarded two fellowships: a Visiting Canadian Fellowship in North American Studies at the Eccles Centre, British Library, London, and a Harry Ransom Center Research Fellowship in the Humanities at the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin. Both are in support of her "Vaudeville Indians" project. Congratulations!