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The university’s fall theatre production, Silent Sky, was reviewed by Roman Sanchez, a respondent for the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival who serves as a theatre program analyst for the California Arts Council. He has reviewed more than 50 virtual theatre productions, both at the professional and university levels, in the last eight months, and stated George Fox’s production was one of the best he had seen.

His praise is reflected in the following Kennedy Center awards:

  • Bryan Boyd: Meritorious Achievement Award for Outstanding Systems Design
  • Johnathan Billington: Meritorious Achievement Award for Outstanding Collaboration and Execution of a Virtual Design (Lights)
  • Alizabeth Stevans: Meritorious Achievement Award for Outstanding Collaboration and Execution of a Virtual Design (Projections)
  • Alexa Schluchter: Meritorious Achievement Award for Outstanding Collaboration and Execution of a Virtual Design (Lights)
  • Marley Ross: Meritorious Achievement Award for Outstanding Collaboration and Execution of a Virtual Design (Sound)
  • Emma Johnson: Meritorious Achievement Award for Outstanding Collaboration and Execution of a Virtual Design (Make-up
  • Elyse Bradford (“Henrietta Leavitt”): Irene Ryan Nomination for outstanding acting in a university production
  • Danny Walker (“Peter Shaw”): Irene Ryan Nomination for outstanding acting in a university production

In addition, the show is currently being considered for production at the regional festival in February 2021. Only four shows a year make it to the regional festival, which includes the following states: Oregon, Washington, Alaska, Hawaii, northern and central California, Nevada, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming and Colorado. 

Sunggu Yang (Theology), along with his editorial team, published Vol. 7 No. 2 of the Asian American Theological Forum. In addition, he published an article, “With Jørn Utzon: Approaching and Preaching Architectural Texts,” in Vol. 45 No. 2 of Homiletic: The Journal of the Academy of Homiletics. 

Ron Clark (Seminary) recently conducted online training sessions for the Multnomah County Family Violence Council, addressing working with intimate partner violence in churches, holding offenders accountable, and confronting abusive faith leaders. He also is part of the Healing the Healer documentary series (taped in December 2020) through Odyssey Impact in New York. The series will be used to train clergy, seminary students, and lay leaders, and will be released in 2021.

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