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Perpich Theater and Musical Theater Students Visit Chicago for 2024 National Unified Auditions
February 8, 2024
The group at the Palmer House, where they stayedEvery February, inside the Palmer House Hotel in Chicago, the theater departments of several dozen colleges converge to hold the National Unified Auditions, a make-or-break, do-or-die audition week for anxious,…
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Caitlin Knight (Theater 2002) Speaks to Students During Common Experience
Caitlin Knight (Theater 2002)February 5, 2024
Perpich alum, Caitlin Knight (Theater 2002), spoke with students during Common Ex on Monday, February 5th. Common Ex is a series of presentations where students often hear about the artistic life from practicing artists, many…
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Perpich Students Attend Theater Performance of Aya Ogawa’s “The Nosebleed”at Walker Art Center
Following the performance, students met with Aya Ogawa, playwright and director; Philip Bither, Walker Art Center’s Senior Curator of Performing Arts; and members of the cast.January 26, 2024
Perpich students and Tory Peterson, Theater Instructor, attended the January 25th performance of Aya Ogawa’s “The…
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Perpich Theater Goes to Camp with “The Bloody Chamber”
December 18, 2023
On December 14th and 15th, 2023, the Perpich Theater and Musical Theater students brought a very camp version of “The Bloody Chamber” to life in the Black Box Theater. Using Angela Carter’s story, the group devised a piece influenced by camp theater…
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St. Francis Classroom Visit & Peer Observation with Lein Walseth
November 21, 2023
Five theater educators and directors from across the Twin Cities and the St. Cloud metro area joined Perpich’s Theater Education Specialist, Dr. Stephanie Lein Walseth, at St. Francis Middle School and St. Francis High School on Thursday, November 16th, to observe theater…
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Maggie Loxtercamp (Musical Theater 2024) and Wanjiru Njora (Musical Theater 2024) Direct in ENOUGH! Plays to End Gun Violence Nationwide Reading
November 7, 2023
Maggie Loxtercamp (Musical Theater 2024), back row center, and Wanjiru Njora (Musical Theater 2024), back row second from the right, are pictured with other Perpich Arts High School students and Tory Peterson, Theater InstructorMaggie Loxtercamp (Musical Theater 2024)…
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Students Present “Sketches & Observations” in the Neo-Futurist Tradition
October 18, 2023
Perpich Arts High School presented “Sketches & Observations” on October 16 and October 17, 2023. In the Neo-Futurist tradition, the sketches & observations from Feiffer’s People by Jules Feiffer and The Colored Museum by George C. Wolfe were presented in random order….
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Tory Peterson, Theater Instructor, Accepted for U of M’s Global Perspectives of Civics Fellowship
Tory Peterson, Theater InstructorOctober 16, 2023
Congratulations to Tory Peterson, Theater Instructor, who was accepted for the University of Minnesota’s Global Perspectives of Civics Fellowship this past summer. The multi-year selective fellowship brings together six high school educators from Minnesota and…
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University of Minnesota Duluth Professors Workshop with Dance, Theater, and Musical Theater Students
September 20, 2023
Matthew Wagner works with the Dance students in the Studio.On Tuesday, September 19th, Perpich students in Dance, Theater, and Musical Theater welcomed Lauren Roth and Matthew Wagner to their arts classrooms. Both Roth and Wagner are assistant professors…
