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Ella Pravetz

Arts

Oct. 17, 2013 12:28 a.m.

Graduate acting program’s new head sets stage for recalibration of curriculum

It’s been two years since UCLA’s graduate department at the School of Theater, Film and Television accepted any actors into its program.
In the wake of Tony Award-winning Professor Mel Shapiro’s retirement as the head of UCLA’s graduate acting program, Michael Hackett, chairman of the Department of Theater, and other faculty members of the graduate theater department spent two years in search of a new head of acting to recalibrate the program.

By Ella Pravetz

Arts

Oct. 15, 2013 12:00 a.m.

‘When You Wish: The Story of Walt Disney’ debuts at UCLA

Writer Dean McClure was watching his daughter perform in a parade at Disneyland 20 years ago when he asked himself why a musical had never been made to highlight the life of Walt Disney.

By Ella Pravetz

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