Emerson College

Cleveland resident awarded $20,000 grant.

Performing arts professor at Emerson College, will direct ArtsEmerson's production of Sugar, a sugar-free jam on diabetes and life, which premieres January 20 at the Black Box Theater of Emerson's Paramount Center (559 Washington St., Boston).

Local residents were selected to represent Emerson College in Who's Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges for the 2011-2012 academic year, to which 100 students applied.

She Loves Me is Patria Ferragamo's first time in the spotlight as head costume designer and working on her own with an assistant.

Local residents and Emerson College students will join 26 of their peers in the musical comedy, She Loves Me. Performances take place November 30 through December 4 at the Greene Theater in Emerson's Tufte Performance and Production Center (10 Boylston Place, Boston).

Emerson faculty chose eligible upper-class students and recent graduates based on their individually submitted scripts and synopses. Then, WGAE identified five professional writers based on their writing specialties to mentor the students.

Local residents and Emerson students will join 35 of their peers in this annual Theatre for Young Audiences (TYA) production written by Greg Banks and directed by Courtney O'Connor and Ted Hewlett. Performances take place November 12-19 at the Mainstage of Emerson's Paramount Center (559 Washington St., Boston).

Emerson students were cast in Home, the coda to You Better Sit Down: Tales from My Parents' Divorce. They will join 14 fellow Emerson students in this production, a collaboration with The Civilians, a New York-based investigative theater company. Home was written by Anne Kauffman, Matthew Maher, Caitlin Miller, Janice Paran, Jennifer Morris, and Robbie Collier Sublett and is directed by Morris and Sublett. Performances take place October 25-30 at the Mainstage of Emerson College's Paramount Theater (559 Washington St., Boston).

Local residents and Emerson College students earned positions in Emerson Stage's first production of the season, Cloud Nine.