Life After Fairfield: Theatre Alumni Panel Advice
Channel: Fairfield University
Date: 2016-02-23

Christopher Taggart ’05 is a theatre administrator currently overseeing Disney’s wildly successful Broadway adaptation of Aladdin.

Jennifer Katona ’99 founded the graduate program in educational theatre at The City College of New York.

Paul Marcarelli ’92 is the “Verizon guy,” whose “Can you hear me now?” has become a national catch phrase.

What do they have in common? They’re all part of the Theatre Fairfield family, a group of students and alumni who’ve found a second home in the cozy confines of the PepsiCo Theatre the last few decades. And the trio – along with actress January LaVoy ’97 and Colleen Kennedy ’09, staffing manager at Summer Institute for the Gifted – came back to campus for “Life After Theatre Fairfield,” a biennial gathering in which alumni of the resident theatre company “tell all” about their lives after Commencement. This year’s event was held on January 28 and attracted about 40 current students eager to see how theatre training translates to real life.

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