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Interview with Paige Hathaway, TDPS alum with a MFA in scenic design, appears in the Washington Post

July 20, 2015 School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies

Paige Hathaway's set design for Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead at Folger Theatre gets positive reviews in the Washington Post and DC Metro Theatre Arts

The article recognizes Paige's artistic ability and success at a young age and her graduate training at UMD:

The boldness of the look belies the fact that, a little more than a year ago, Hathaway was still an MFA student at the University of Maryland. “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead” is her first production as a full-fledged scenic designer. (She also designed the props.)

Aaron Posner, an adjunct faculty member for UMD, directed the production.

Posner first became acquainted with Hathaway’s work when she was in a class he was co-teaching at Maryland. Even then he was impressed enough to ask her to collaborate on the Stoppard play.

“Some designers tend to be stronger dramaturgically, where they’re really getting in the details of the nuts and bolts and nitty-gritty of the play. Some tend to be better about the grand gesture and the artistry of it. And the best are good in both areas,” Posner says. Hathaway falls into the good-at-both category, he adds, which “is not always common in a very young artist.”

To read the entire interview, Click Here.

To read intereview of Paige Hathaway and Aaron Posner in DC Metro Theater Arts, Click Here