2008 Woodie Awards
Scouting out film and theater
David Lev
Issue date: 3/9/07 Section: A&E
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With all the theater and film on campus such as "Arcadia," the Infinite Monkeys Festival and Campus Films; you would think that people would have had enough. But evidently, some people crave the theatrical arts so much that they need to get off campus to be satisfied. For them, there is Film and Theater Society (or FTS).
This club was founded in the fall of 2000 by an alumnus named Justin Garland and former Associate Dean for Student Services Houston Dougharty. Both were passionate about the theater and wanted to make it easier to see plays in Seattle and Tacoma.
Here's essentially how the club works: at the beginning of each semester, the club meets to buy tickets for productions of plays.
Since it is a group of students, they get a special rate, usually below twenty dollars a pop. When the time for a production comes around, the club rents vans from the University to go to the play. There are discussions and bonding moments both on the way to the play and back.
"You end up getting to know people next to you pretty well," said senior Susanna Pugh, the current president of FTS.
In the past, the club has also sponsored an "Alternate Spring Break," where members go down to Ashland for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival or to New York City to see Broadway plays.
It will not be doing that this year, however, due to lack of interest. Pugh hopes that it will happen next year. McCarren Caputa, the Resident Director for Todd/Phibbs Hall, is the Faculty Advisor for the club.
She recieved this position officially when Dougharty left, although she had been involved in the club since she came here five years ago.
"It's a good way to support the arts, and it gives you people to talk to about the theater," she said.
Caputa also mentioned that the club is trying to put more emphasis on going to see movies. There are two times scheduled for going to see films-one at the end of March, the other at the end of April.
Unlike the play tickets (which have already been bought), going to the films is still up in the air. Simply contact Pugh at spugh@ups.edu to get on the mailing list. Freshman Betsy Kersey joined at the beginning of the year when she saw the club's booth at LogJam. She went to the first show, "Moonlight over Magnolias" at the Intiman Theater, which has won the Tony Award for best regional theater in the U.S.
"It was very funny. You didn't need to know anything about 'Gone With the Wind' (which the play was based on), but it was funnier if you did," she said.
Kersey has been a devoted member ever since. She thinks that more people should join.
"We would appreciate more new members, especially guys," she said.
Interested students should email Pugh or check out the club website: asups.ups.edu/club/fts/website/default.htm.
• David Lev's favorite musical is the musical episode of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer."
This club was founded in the fall of 2000 by an alumnus named Justin Garland and former Associate Dean for Student Services Houston Dougharty. Both were passionate about the theater and wanted to make it easier to see plays in Seattle and Tacoma.
Here's essentially how the club works: at the beginning of each semester, the club meets to buy tickets for productions of plays.
Since it is a group of students, they get a special rate, usually below twenty dollars a pop. When the time for a production comes around, the club rents vans from the University to go to the play. There are discussions and bonding moments both on the way to the play and back.
"You end up getting to know people next to you pretty well," said senior Susanna Pugh, the current president of FTS.
In the past, the club has also sponsored an "Alternate Spring Break," where members go down to Ashland for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival or to New York City to see Broadway plays.
It will not be doing that this year, however, due to lack of interest. Pugh hopes that it will happen next year. McCarren Caputa, the Resident Director for Todd/Phibbs Hall, is the Faculty Advisor for the club.
She recieved this position officially when Dougharty left, although she had been involved in the club since she came here five years ago.
"It's a good way to support the arts, and it gives you people to talk to about the theater," she said.
Caputa also mentioned that the club is trying to put more emphasis on going to see movies. There are two times scheduled for going to see films-one at the end of March, the other at the end of April.
Unlike the play tickets (which have already been bought), going to the films is still up in the air. Simply contact Pugh at spugh@ups.edu to get on the mailing list. Freshman Betsy Kersey joined at the beginning of the year when she saw the club's booth at LogJam. She went to the first show, "Moonlight over Magnolias" at the Intiman Theater, which has won the Tony Award for best regional theater in the U.S.
"It was very funny. You didn't need to know anything about 'Gone With the Wind' (which the play was based on), but it was funnier if you did," she said.
Kersey has been a devoted member ever since. She thinks that more people should join.
"We would appreciate more new members, especially guys," she said.
Interested students should email Pugh or check out the club website: asups.ups.edu/club/fts/website/default.htm.
• David Lev's favorite musical is the musical episode of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer."
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