Alumni in the News
Monday, February 22nd, 2010Andrea Varga (Theater Arts) led a group of 23 New Paltz students as part of the annual London Theatre Seminar in January for two weeks. During the program, they attended performances of plays and visited museums, galleries, historic sites and tours of theaters and other venues in order to gain perspective on the historical, political and socio-cultural attributes of theater in London and the United Kingdom. At one of the performances, the biography for one of the performers, Sharona Sassoon, listed her as having attended SUNY New Paltz. After the show, they spoke with the house manager and asked to meet her. Sassoon welcomed the students backstage, and invited them to a special cabaret after the show where they were able to meet the whole cast. Later, Sassoon voluntarily met up with the group during their class session and talked to them about working as an actress in London. “I felt so very proud to be a New Paltz alumni and have you all [the New Paltz students] in the audience,” said Sassoon, “and felt honored to come in that morning and share some of my experiences in the business with you all.”


