PRESS RELEASE
UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL ARKANSAS
COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS AND COMMUNICATION
Contact: Christina Madsen, (501) 852-2659, christinam@uca.edu
Melissa Kordsmeier, (501) 450-5092; mkordsmeier@uca.edu
March 2, 2015
THE REP’S ROBERT HUPP TO LECTURE, DIRECT AT UCA
By Hanna Lowery
College of Fine Arts and Communication Media Office
CONWAY — Robert Hupp, producing artistic director of Arkansas Repertory Theatre, will deliver a public lecture, “Non-profit Theatre in America,” Thursday, March 12.
The event, free and open to the public, will be held at the Bridges/Larson Theatre in the Snow Fine Arts Center at 6:30 p.m.
Hupp will also be artist in residence as director of UCA Theatre’s performance of Lucky Stiff April 9-11 and 16-17.
“Through his work as a manager and a director at the oldest and most renowned professional theatre in Arkansas, Bob Hupp has provided inspiring leadership in the arts for our state,” said Dr. Kevin Browne, associate professor of theatre and the faculty sponsor for the residency. “We are proud and excited to be able to offer our students and our audience this opportunity.”
In his 15 years at the Arkansas Repertory Theatre, Hupp is credited with directing, among others, Red, Death of a Salesman, and To Kill a Mockingbird. Les Miserables is another popular show he directed for Arizona’s Phoenix Theatre Company.
Premieres of the Bentley/Milhaud version of Brecht’s Mother Courage and Her Children, Seamus Heaney’s The Cure at Troy, and Eduardo de Filippo’s Napoli Milionaria are among the shows he has directed for the Obie Award-winning Jean Cocteau Rep.
For more information about the event, contact Melissa Kordsmeier, mkordsmeier@uca.edu or (501) 450-5092.
The Artist in Residence program is funded by UCA’s arts fee and is administered by the College of Fine Arts and Communication. For more information about the program, call the Office of the Dean, College of Fine Arts and Communication, at (501) 450-3293 or e-mail jdmiller@uca.edu.
The UCA College of Fine Arts and Communication includes the Departments of Art, Communication, Mass Communication and Theatre, Music and Writing. The college’s primary mission is the preparation of the next generation of artists, educators and communicators. For more information about CFAC, visit www.uca.edu/cfacor call (501) 450-3293.
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