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- April 25-28
Continuing performances of "Working" (a musical), April 25-27 at 8:00 p.m., April 28 at 2:00 p.m., in the Bruce Davis Theater, Montgomery Hall. Ticket prices are $4 or $6. For reservations, call the Theater Box Office at 240-895-4243 (ext. 4243) or email boxoffice@smcm.edu. - May 1
TFMS Night, a celebration of student work in theater/performance and film, 7:30 p.m., Bruce Davis Theater. Free and open to the public. - May 2
Final exams begin.
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The Faculty
TFMS Alumni
Where Are They Now?
Megan Rippey (class of 2008, B.A. women, gender, and sexuality studies, minor in theater studies) is currently in her final year of her M.F.A. in the acting program at the California Institute of the Arts (class of 2013).
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Mark A. Rhoda
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David Ellsworth
Associate professor of theater, film, and media studies. Film/video production, screenwriting, non-fiction film history/theory.
email: dellsworth@smcm.edu
David Ellsworth is a documentary and experimental filmmaker whose work has screened at a variety of festivals nationally (Black Maria, Full Frame, Margaret Mead) and abroad (Amsterdam, Havana, Paris, Seoul, Tokyo, Edinburgh). Dave received his B.A. in English from the University of Virginia before moving to New York, where he worked as a video editor at Broadway Video, Inc. He left New York to earn an M.A. in Educational Media Production at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina and later received his M.F.A. in Film and Video Production at the University of Iowa. He has taught at Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia and Grand Valley State University in Michigan. His teaching and research interests include film/video production, screenwriting, and non-fiction film history/theory. Dave recently completed "Front Street Yard," a short documentary shot at the Padnos Iron and Metal Company in Grand Rapids, MI. He is currently editing an experimental documentary on life in Farmville, VA, and is also continuing production on a documentary about vernacular architecture in Louisa County, VA. (Office: MH 179A)
from David Ellsworth's film "Front Street Yard" (2011)
