The Geffen Playhouse Board of Directors announced Thursday that Gil Cates Jr. will take over as the new executive director as the playhouse moves into its 20th anniversary season. Read more...
Photo: Gil Cates Jr. was named the executive director of the Geffen Playhouse on Thursday. (Courtesy of Jeff Lorch)
Julia Ramos’ beatboxing career began when she was 13 years old. During a routine YouTube visit, Ramos stumbled upon a video of beatboxer Joel Turner from the 2003 season of “Australian Idol” and, having never heard beatboxing before, was intrigued by his unfamiliar sounds. Read more...
Photo: Graduating fourth-year Design | Media Arts student and Random Voices beatboxer Julia Ramos was featured on a “Pitch Perfect 2” CoverGirl commercial and placed in the top 16 twice in the American Beatbox Championship. (Lisa O’Brien/Daily Bruin)
Olivia Taylor has written about failing a class, peeing her pants in Powell Library and being caught faking a New Zealand accent. Taylor, a fourth-year sociology student, said all of her funniest short stories are drawn from her worst experiences at UCLA. Read more...
Photo: Fourth-year comedian Olivia Taylor has tutored children through the Incarcerated Youth Tutorial Project at UCLA. After graduation, Taylor wants to become a television writer, but eventually hopes to merge her passions of teaching and comedy with a summer camp for young girls. (Max Himmelrich/Daily Bruin)
Beaming friends donning blue sashes embrace under the arches of Royce Hall, ready to document their dwindling time as undergraduates. A photographer urges the graduating seniors to laugh before capturing the bittersweet moment. Read more...
Photo: Alumni and student photographers, such as fourth-year biology student Kyle Rubalcava (above), have taken to campus landmarks such as Royce Quad to document seniors leaving UCLA in graduation photo sessions. These shoots provide photographers with a source of income and give students a keepsake of their college experience. (Heidy Cadena/Daily Bruin)
When senior lecturer Hal Ackerman was first asked to teach at UCLA, he was terrified. He said he had no confidence that he could offer students any advice that merited real value. Read more...
Photo: Hal Ackerman originally transitioned into screenwriting from his role as an off-off-Broadway playwright in New York. After 30 years as a screenwriting lecturer, Ackerman will retire and move back to New York to focus on writing novels and plays. (Jessica Zhou/Daily Bruin)
Faith Kearns has been in about 30 full-length and one-act plays, won two poetry awards, given five poetry readings, written six one-act plays and received highest honors for her creative thesis from the English department. Read more...
Photo: Sixth-year Faith Kearns balances her English degree with a theater minor to cover two of her passions. The playwright, poet and actor plans to pursue theater after graduation, first as a manager of Vanguard Repertory Company. (Helen Kwak/Daily Bruin)
When her mother gave her an ultimatum between soccer and theater in elementary school, Catherine Yount had no doubts as to which path she would choose. Read more...
Photo: Fourth-year Cathy Yount combined her interests in theater and science by majoring in human biology and society while working with Hooligan Theatre Company. Drawing from her teaching experience at ArtBridge, a program that uses arts to teach a variety of subjects in local schools, she will go on to intern with the arts education outreach department at Musical Theatre West. (Alyssa Dorn/Daily Bruin)
