Dragon Fire Raffle tickets are NOW on sale

for a chance to win a 2012 Schwinn scooter, a 46” Sony television, an iPad 2, and two VIP WE Fest tickets. Cost of each ticket is $10 and the winner will be announced on February 3 at half-time of the men’s basketball game. Contact the Athletic department at 218-477-5824 or e-mail dragonfire@mnstate.edu. All proceeds from the raffle benefit athletic […]

Theatre alum Jan Maxwell receives accolades

MSUM Theatre Arts alum Jan Maxwell starred last spring in a revival of the Stephen Sondheim hit musical Follies with Bernadette Peters at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. A New York Times theatre reviewer wrote in the May 22 issue: “Ms. Maxwell, who gives the evening’s most complete and satisfying performance, sings and dances the audience in to a […]

Theatre alum Dan Leonard receives performing arts prize

Dan Leonard, ’79, Theatre Arts, received the Randolph Frank Prize for the Performing Arts. He received the $5,000 award for his work in Palm Beach County’s performing arts scene for the past 25 years. Leonard wrote plays for a touring theatre program for schools and also acted in many theatrical productions in the Palm Beach County area, where he lives […]

Alum’s documentary on N.Y. teenagers receives praise

A documentary about three underprivileged New York City teenagers was produced in part by MSUM Speech alum Jill Angelo, ‘97. The documentary was praised in an Oct. 11 issue of The New York Times for offering “more substantive insights into pressing issues of public education and urban poverty than many political commentators muster in a career.” The film opened Oct. […]