Christian Castro ’03, ’22 is a husband, a father, an aspiring teacher, a child of Mexican immigrants, and a persistent professional actor for 20 years.
From actor to teacher: Hard work earns alum a second act
Unit: Theatre and Dance
Complete run of Illinois Shakespeare Festival programs now online
Thanks to a collaboration between the Wonsook Kim College of Fine Arts and Milner Library, copies of printed programs from the 1978 to 2019 Illinois Shakespeare Festivals are available online in Illinois State University’s institutional repository, ISU ReD. These materials are freely available to everyone.
Tee up for the 19th John Stevens Memorial Golf Outing on June 13, 2022
Mark your calendars for the 19th John Stevens Memorial Golf Outing on Monday, June 13, 2022 at Ironwood Golf Course in Normal. This annual event, which returns after a two-year hiatus due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, supports the Illinois Shakespeare Festival (ISF) by funding the salary of a professional Equity Actor each season.
An interview with 2022 Sutter Family Shakespeare Scholarship recipient Joshua Thomas
School of Theatre and Dance acting major Joshua Thomas was recently announced as the 2022 recipient of the Sutter Family Shakespeare Scholarship for the Illinois Shakespeare Festival (ISF).
Registration now open for Illinois Shakespeare Festival’s 2022 summer camps and classes
The Festival has a wide variety of options, including four camps for youth and two online classes for adults.
Virtual Staged Reading of Dear Mr. C, May 18
The Crossroads Project will present a virtual staged reading of Dear Mr. C by Tidtaya Sinutoke, winner of the 2022 Diverse Voices Playwriting Initiative.
The School of Theatre and Dance presents Emergence: Spring 2022 Dance Concert
Emergence is comprised of four original faculty works from Darby Wilde, Laina Reese, Greg Merriman, and Kaley Pruitt, along with two guest artist works from Sara Semonis and Morgan Williams and will be presented in Westhoff Theatre on April 21-23 at 7:30 p.m. and on April 23 and 24 at 2 p.m.
Pause for applause: Spring 2022
Please join us in applauding these accomplished Illinois State University alumni.
Rewriting the script: Alumna Elisabeth Good puts people with disabilities in spotlight
William Shakespeare wrote that the world is a stage, and all humans are actors on it. Elisabeth Good ’15 became convinced at an early age that some have only been invited as spectators, specifically individuals with a disability.
Interstellar arithmetic: Undergraduate student research unites theatre and math
Chris Turner received an Undergraduate Student Research Program grant for his research project that studied whether bringing theatrical elements to a math classroom would help student learning.
