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Show IWIMMjiwi!MMiil ; ? v i gj A V HOWARD JENSEN Director "Two Gentlemen of Verona" FRED C. ADAMS Director "Merchant of Venice" BURT H. PEACHY Director "Richafd II" Directors provide talent, insight As SUSC Drama Driector, Professor Adams has directed numerous plays, including "Fiddler on the Roof" and "Man of La Mancha". Mr. Peachy will be demonstrating demon-strating versatility this season as he directs a Shakespearean history instead of last year's comedy. Currently serving as Staff Director and coordinator of the acting program in the Theatre Arts Department at California State University Long Beach, Mr. Peachy brings a wide range of theatrical experience to his Festival assignment. He has functioned as director, musical director, and choreographer for over 60 productions, and his production of the musical "Cejebration" was chosen a national finalist by the American College Theatre Festival in Washington D.C. He was also awarded the Los Angeles Drama Critic Award for his cluster of Canterbury Tales, and served as Assistant Director for the American National Theatre and Academy's Tribute to Rolsalind Russell. Howard Jensen will be remembered by many Southern Utah threatre-goers for his student performances in earlier Festival productions, including the title role in "Hamlet." He is presently serving as Head of the Acting Program, Department of Theatre and Drama at Indiana University, and has acted in 54 roles since 1961. He was recipient of a Hilberry Theatre Fellowship from Wayne State -University, and has directed numerous plays, there and at the University of California. By Gwen Sandberg Three outstanding directors are combining a variety of talents and insights in the presentation of this season's Festival plays. . Producing Director and Festival founder Fred C. Adams is directing the perennial crowd pleaser, "The Merchant of Venice," Burt H. Peachy has returned for his second Festival season to present "Richard II," and Howard Jensen is again on the Southern Utah State College campuis campus directing "Two Gentlemen of Verona." Professor Adams is directing his twenty-first production this summer, and this season also marks the third time for performance per-formance of "The Merchants of Venice" at the Utah Festival. During the past winter Professor Adams, who serves as chairman of the Communications-Drama Department at SUSC, completed a successful production of "Love's Labor's Lost," and beginning in the fall of 1975, will be traveling with a commedia troupe throughout the inter in-ter mountain west, performing for high schools, elementary schools and civic groups. |