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Daniel
Guyton has been nominated four times for a Kennedy Center/ACTF
(American College Theatre Festival) playwriting award—three
of them since enrolling at UGA in August of 2001. This past
February, he won for his one-act play, "Attic."
“Attic” will be presented this summer as part of UGA's drama
season, and it will also receive a full production at next
year's ACTF festival to be held in Southern
Florida.
Expected
graduation: Spring 2004
Degree Objective: Master of Fine Arts
Other Degrees:
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B.A.,
State University of New York, Albany (Theatre)
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B.A.,
State University of New York, Albany (English)
University highlights, achievements and awards:
The Kennedy Center/ACTF nominations
and award were a big highlight. I had also won the award once
before I enrolled at UGA for my short play "Where's Julie?"
That work has since been published in Best Student One-Acts:
Volume 7. It also recently premiered at the Town and
Gown Theatre right here in Athens!
The other two times I was nominated for this award, it was
for my plays "Milo and Barbara" and "Georgie
Gets a Face-Lift." Both of those plays have been produced
at UGA by the Thalian-Blackfriars organization. Since enrolling
at UGA, I have also had one of my plays translated into Icelandic,
and it should be receiving a full production there within
the next year or so. That play is a raucous satire on homophobia
entitled "I'm Not Gay!"
Current employment:
I am currently a teaching assistant.
I work with students in DRAM 2000 (Appreciation of Dramatic
Arts). I also work with Partners in Achievement, a one-on-one
tutoring organization. We play games with children that are
specifically geared towards strengthening their auditory,
visual, and cognitive processing abilities. The program was
designed for children with learning disabilities, though pretty
much anybody of any age can sign up. In fact, many of our
students do not have any real disabilities, but are simply
a little deficient in one or more academic areas. We help
them perform better in school.
High School: Sachem High
School, Holbrook, NY
Hometown:
Long Island, NY
Family ties:
My great-great uncle, Milton Caniff,
was a famous cartoonist. He created the Steve Canyon
series in the early 1940's. He also worked with the original
Little Nemo series that was adapted into a movie
in 1993.
My favorite
things to do on campus are...
...visiting the koi pond
on North campus. It's very relaxing and peaceful. I'm also
a huge fan of the Ramsey Center. And of course, I spend quite
a lot of time in the Fine Arts Building. I enjoy watching,
performing, and being involved in the theatre program there
as much as I can.
If I could
share an afternoon with anyone, I would love to share it with...
...Charlie Chaplin. Though he was a great comedian, he was
also a wonderful humanitarian. The themes and ideas which
permeated his greatest works all resonate with the sadness
and the beauty of life. His greatest work is a movie called
"The Great Dictator" in which he mocks Adolf Hitler (who
was reported to be a huge Chaplin fan—possibly even
basing his moustache on the actor's) and delivers one of the
most moving speeches I've ever heard. The speech calls for
love and tolerance and the abolition of racial discord. I'm
not sure what I would get out of a day with Chaplin, but I
would just love to pick his brain, and perhaps be entertained
by him—live and in person. He's hilarious on film. I
can't imagine how funny he would be without the veil of celluloid
around him.
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