I want to thank everyone who has expressed their concern about the cuts spoken of by Lesley Cormack, Dean of the Faculty of Arts. I appreciate the overwhelming support of this remarkable theatre community. We are currently examining this situation with the Faculty of Arts. The Stage Management and Technical Production programs were established with quotas recognizing their special nature and neither program is meeting those quotas so are under enrolled. However, both programs together constitute the major in Technical Theatre and this has not been taken into account yet. Once that is done, our numbers will be above the ten which is informing the decision of last week. I expect that the Faculty of Arts will take this new information into consideration. Until things are sorted out, I do not know what kind of support we need from our community. In the coming days, I will update you on how you can help us. Thank you again for your support. The Department of Drama remains fully committed to excellence and the teaching of theatre's future leaders.
Kathleen Weiss