Perpich Theater and Musical Theater Students Attend Gallery Tours at Walker Art Center

January 27, 2025

Perpich Theater and Musical Theater students and Tory Peterson, Theater Instructor, attended gallery tours at the Walker Art Center on January 17th and January 24th. These tours served as preliminary work for the Luigi Jannuzzi Project in which Perpich students will be adapting vignettes from Mr. Jannuzzi’s plays about artwork at New York’s Metropolitan Museum. The plays are part of the 4th Quarter performance series on May 15th & 16th, 2025.

Ian Garrido-Lavender (Musical Theater 2025) found the experience helpful. “Looking at the Walker was definitely inspiring,” said Ian. “It was nice to be guided through places of interest but also to have the freedom to explore. I was personally very taken by the light, air, and water exhibit so I took photos of everything.”

Luigi Jannuzzi (November 12, 1952) is a contemporary American comedic playwright from New Jersey. He is a recipient of two New Jersey State Council on the Art Fellowships, two Geraldine R. Dodge Grants, three National Endowments for the Humanities (2000 at Rutgers U,. 1998 at Columbia U., and 1995 at The U of Vermont), the 1986 Goshen Peace Prize, a 1998 and 2000 Finalist in the Eugene O’Neill National Playwriting Conference, and a 2007-2009 James Madison Grant at Princeton University.