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The show must go on(line)! SCT is pleased to announce that despite not being able to gather in person, we are continuing our Summer Internship Program in conjunction with our virtual Summer Drama School Classes. Please join us in welcoming the 9 talented college students and recent graduates who will be assisting SCT virtually this summer as Teaching Artist and Arts Administration Interns. We are excited to have them aboard! SCT Summer Intern Class of 2020: Emma Bentsen - Teaching Artist Intern Jordan Ben-Shmuel - Teaching Artist Intern Celeste Bernstein - Arts Administration Intern Victoria Hernandez - Teaching Artist Intern Gabriela Tatone - Teaching Artist Intern Chloe Tower - Teaching Artist Intern Cassie Paulsen - Teaching Artist Intern Fabiano Nardone - Teaching Artist Intern Matias Rafael Cardinale - Teaching Artist Intern  Celebrate PRIDE with one of SCT's new virtual summer classes, The Art of Drag! Designed for LGBTQ+ youth and their allies, this class will examine the history and cultural significance of Drag Performance while learning how to create a drag persona, complete with different looks and personalities. Taught by local Drag Queen, Isis, and Drag King, Dan D'Lite, this class will have you looking good and feeling great to love the skin you're in! Meet your instructors:  Chip Sherman (they/them) has been performing in and outside the art of drag for 20+ years. In the theatre you may have seen them as a Core Company Member at ACT in our productions ofRomeo + Juliet, Christmas Carol, and Alex and Aris, and here at SCT in And In This Corner: Cassius Clay and most recently as the titular character in Corduroy. In drag you may have seen them moonlighting as Isis in and out of the drag duo, LüChi, in their resident weeklies at Rplace; TWINSday w/ LüChi, Thirsty Thursday w/ Mila Skyy, and Lashes w/ the Lashes Cast, at the Kremwerk Komplex; in their resident monthlies Noir w/ Skarlett Dior Black and London Bradshaw, and QiQi Cabaret w/ CarLarans. Photo by Keith Johnson/Parade Images  Laurie Lynch (they/them/she/her) is a queer artist-activist, drag performer, educator, playwright. They received their BA in Theatre from CSULA and their MFA in Contemporary Performance from Naropa University. Laurie taught performance in higher education, developed self scripting courses for LGBTQ Youth and performed all over Denver, CO prior to moving to the PNW. They were a 2018 Intiman Theatre Emerging artist where they wrote and performed a piece entitled, “Dandyland: Queering Motherhood One Day at a Time.” Laurie performs in Drag as Dan D’Lite.
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