Summer 2014 - Ritza has been in LA for the past year and loves the city! She’s interning with H2R Productions and Footprint Features, both led by Duke grads, and she’s writing and acting as well. She’s been working with some other recent grads on a web-series about navigating through life in your 20s titled LALALAND, and it's set for release this summer.

Summer 2013 - Yujin Chun (T’11) is a rising second year student at Cornell Law School and working for a judge in Los Angeles this summer. Yujin has acted in parody videos that were made to advertise a fundraising project for the public interest fund at Cornell <youtu.be/xipAQJafC18> (Mean Girls parody) and <http://youtu.be/DTarTThOw_s&gt; (Breakfast Club parody)

Summer 2014 - Jim's Dream of the Red Chamber recently completed a run at the Brill Building in Times Square. Conceived as a literal dream play, the work is performed for an audience that is encouraged to experience the piece while they fall in and out of sleep. This durational performance installation invites the audience to take an immersive journey through Cao Xueqin’s 18th century Chinese novel “Dream of the Red Chamber”—an epic love story between a stone and a flower, framed by a dizzying series of metaphysical dreams.

Summer 2014 - Molly (T’13) stayed in Durham the past year working with Jaybird O’Berski on a few shows and acting in The Man Who Was Thursday and Amadeus. Now she’s living in New York City, going back to school for premed and also attending the Michael Howard Studios one year acting conservatory.

Kana Hatakeyama is a filmmaker and actor based in New York City. Her films include "okaasan (mom)" (Dallas International Film Festival - Special Jury Award, New Orleans Film Festival - Audience Award, Nitehawk Shorts Festival - Audience Award & First Time Filmmaker Award) and "FITNESS! or a story about SWEAT," with more to come. 

As an actor, she can be seen on Netflix in "Orange is the New Black" and "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt."

Summer 2015 - Jamie Kaye-Phillips (T’10) is currently an above-title co-producer of An Act of God, the new Broadway comedy starring four-time Emmy winner Jim Parsons ("The Big Bang Theory"), written by 13-time Emmy winner David Javerbaum ("The Daily Show with Jon Stewart"), and directed by two-time Tony winner Joe Mantello (Wicked, The Normal Heart). He also recently co-produced the Tony-nominated revival of The Elephant Man starring three-time Oscar nominee Bradley Cooper ("American Sniper," "Silver Linings Playbook").

Summer 2015 - Kimberly Welch (T’13) is working on her PhD in Theater & Performance Studies at UCLA (about to start her third year). Her research focuses on the intersections of performance, homelessness, and incarceration, and former Duke faculty member Sean Metzger is her advisor.

Summer 2013 - Kimberly Welch (T’13) is doing ethnographic research in Kampala, Uganda on the relationship between performance and the education of women in Kampala this summer. She starts the Ph.D. Program in Theater and Performance Studies at UCLA in September.