Todd London
December 19, 2017
UW-authored books and more for the Dawg on your holiday shopping list
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Here’s a quick look at some gift-worthy books and music created by UW talents in the last year or so — and a reminder of some perennial favorites.
March 3, 2016
$750,000 Mellon Foundation grant will fund research, collaboration in arts
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The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded the University of Washington a three-year, $750,000 grant to support guest artists in developing new works, and to better integrate arts disciplines into the broader university curriculum.
The grant will support a Creative Fellowships Initiative, under which guest performing artist fellows will be recruited from around the world for one- to three-year residencies in dance, music and theater.
May 1, 2014
Todd London named new executive director of UW School of Drama
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Todd London, artistic director of New Dramatists, a playwriting center in New York, has been named the new executive director of the University of Washington School of Drama.