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Post-Doctoral Fellow Toby Malone is a busy man this summer.  He is the supervising dramaturg on the Department's productions, both of which require preparation and work during the spring term.  He is prepping his two new courses - DRAMA 409 (Theatre Criticism) and DRAMA 371 (Theatre History).  He is the Dramaturg for King Lear and A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Stratford Festival.

In early April, the Speech Communication course Art, Communication and Culture, taught by Shana MacDonald, launched the department's inaugural pop-up art exhibition "unLearn: Confronting the Known" in the ML main floor hallway leading to the Theatre of the Arts.

G&G Carpentry, a set-building and carpentry business owned and operated by staff member Gill Lesperance, has received its first public accolades.

Associate Dean and long-time Drama faculty member, Bill Chesney is not relaxing this summer.  He is designing four out of the five shows in the Lighthouse Festival Theatre's 35th anniversary season.

Regular sessional instructor, Anne-Marie Donovan has been recognized for her long-time contribution to the community of Kitchener-Waterloo.  Last Wednesday, (June 18th), Anne-Marie received a Special Jury award at the 26th Annual KW Arts Awards which took place at the Centre in the Square.

The Department of Drama and Speech Communication is excited to announce that Toronto-based actor-playwright-director, Martha Ross, has been contracted to direct the winter production of Rhinoceros by Eugene Ionesco.

They walk these floors at night. Working in the afterlife. Like the buttons they crafted, we are fastened to our history.

Everything old is new again.  In February of this year the Department of Drama and Speech Communication put out a call for a new Assistant Professor position within the unit of Speech Communication.

On April 24th, Paul Cegys and Andy Houston presented their process and challenges regarding their work on the play "From Solitary to Solidarity: Unravelling the Ligatures of Ashley Smith".  The presentation took place at the REAP felt lab in St. Jacobs for the faculty and staff of the Department of Drama and Speech Communication.

DAC faculty members, Jill Tomasson Goodwin, Glenn Stillar and Dave Goodwin recently teamed up with Kelly Grindrod of uWaterloo's School of Pharmacy on a joint research project: to explore how to convince doctors and patients to reduce antibiotic use.