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Student	Institution	Start Date	End Date	Degree	Major/Field Of Study	Minor
Jenna Fischer	Truman State University					Journalism
Anika Noni Rose	Florida A&M University			Bachelor's degree
David Howard				Master's degree
Kathryn Hahn	Northwestern University			Bachelor of Arts
Joan Allen	Northern Illinois University		1989	Bachelor of Arts
Matthew Thompson	Southern Methodist University			Bachelor of Fine Arts
Brion James	San Diego State University
David Howard	Southern Utah University			Bachelor of Arts
Micah Saul	Lewis & Clark College	1999	2000		Mathematics
Lance Gross	Howard University			Bachelor of Arts

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University of Denver Department of Theater

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Dylan Seaton	University of California, San Diego

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Theater of cruelty means a theater difficult and cruel for myself first of all. And, on the level of performance, it is not the cruelty we can exercise upon each other by hacking at each other's bodies, carving up our personal anatomies, or, like Assyrian emperors, sending parcels of human ears, noses, or neatly detached nostrils through the mail, but the much more terrible and necessary cruelty which things can exercise against us. We are not free. And the sky can still fall on our heads. And the theater has been created to teach us that first of all.
Drama assumes an order. If only so that it might have -- by disrupting that order -- a way of surprising.
All this class of pleasures inspires me with the same nausea as I feel at the sight of rich plum-cake or sweetmeats; I prefer the driest bread of common life.
The theatre is the best way of showing the gap between what is said and what is seen to be done, and that is why, ragged and gap-toothed as it is, it has still a far healthier potential than some poorer, abandoned arts.
The theatre is supremely fitted to say: Behold! These things are. Yet most dramatists employ it to say: This moral truth can be learned from beholding this action.
The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.
A playwright is the litmus paper of the arts. He's got to be, because if he isn't working on the same wave length as the audience, no one would know what in hell he was talking about. He is a kind of psychic journalist, even when he's great.
The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.
The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give, for we that live to please, must please to live.
By whatever means it is accomplished, the prime business of a play is to arouse the passions of its audience so that by the route of passion may be opened up new relationships between a man and men, and between men and Man. Drama is akin to the other inventions of man in that it ought to help us to know more, and not merely to spend our feelings.

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