Performing Arts

Kirby Wahl, an associate professor of performing arts, recently finished a job as the dialect coach for the currently running production of Conor McPherson's play, The Seafarer, at The Burning Coal Theatre Company in Raleigh, N.C.

The Department of Performing Arts brings to the stage this weekend 110 in the Shade, a musical that takes the audience into Depression-era Texas where one woman rediscovers love when a con man comes to town with promises to end a drought. The show opens Thursday night in McCrary Theatre.

Cathy McNeela will present a seminar on auditioning and healthy vocal production in the day-long workshop on Vocal Health in Musical Theater: Singin' on Broadway, on Saturday, February 27, at Duke University.

Lauren Kearns, assistant professor of dance and head of the dance program, was the 2009-2010 guest artist for the Winston-Salem All County Dance Consortium.

A 2007 graduate of Elon University represented North Carolina in the Miss America pageant in Las Vegas on Jan. 30. Katherine Southard, a double major in business administration and dance, won the North Carolina contest in June.

The Department of Performing Arts on Thursday night opens its latest show, the critically acclaimed "The Time of Your Life," which tells the story of a man searching for happiness who encounters characters in a waterfront saloon that are on the same journey. Through the duration of the production, from Jan. 21-25, the department will collect canned goods for the Loaves & Fishes Christian Food Ministry in Burlington.

Professors Catherine McNeela and Lynne Kurdziel Formato presented at the Music Theatre Educators Alliance International Conference held Jan. 7-10, 2010, at NYU Steinhardt in New York City.