Faculty News

Lady Day, the newest production from the Dorset Theatre Festival, directed by Dina Janis and with lighting design by Michael Giannitti, recently received an enthusiastic review in The Berkshire Bright Focus. The review praised both Janis and Giannitti's work, calling the show "as perfect a production, as keen a realization as any I've seen and will ever see." 

Noah Coburn’s work in anthropology was featured in an article about the danger that a damaged economy can present to small villages in Afghanistan, a danger that can rival even that of war. The author of the article quoted passages from Coburn’s 2011 ethnography, Bazaar Politics: Power and Pottery in an Afghan Market Town. 

Faculty member Susie Ibarra was featured on Vermont Public Radio about her role in a project that uses food waste generated during the Olympic Games in Rio to feed those in need. 

Alice Mattison, award-winning author and core faculty of the MFA Program, was interviewed by Sarai Walker MFA '03 in The Center for Fiction on "looking like a writer," and her new non-fiction guide for authors, The Kite and the String. 

Musician and faculty member Susie Ibarra is working with David Hertz, a Brazilian chef and a World Economic Forum’s Young Global Leader, around the launch of Refettorio Gastromotiva, a food and cultural center that will repurpose 12 tons of food from the Olympics to turn it into nutritious meals for the neediest of Rio.