So...for all my musical theatre contacts, I admit that this post will not be expressly about receiving a package. Though it is about receiving an anticipated communication. So I still feel somewhat justified by the reference in the subject line.
As I have mentioned previously - here and here - I submitted a proposal for a project grant from the URSA (Undergraduate Research and Scholarly Activity) office here at UAF. The funds would be being used for my production of Antigone this Fall and my travel to the URTA portfolio and interview session in Chicago in February.
I submitted my proposal. And I waited. And waited. radio silence from the URSA committee. Today was the deadline. I admit that I was rather forlorn and anxious this morning. I even put off leaving my house for as long as possible to allow for the committee to send out its emails, since I knew it would just be worse if I got online and found nothing in the mailbox. I had mentally given the folks at the URSA office till 1700 hours local time, since that is when offices generally close on campus. If I had not heard from them by then...well, I would have my answer.
So I left the house and got to the city transit center, where they have an open wifi node. And while I waited for my bus I went ahead and signed on with my tablet to check email. And the first email in the queue was from the URSA committee....To quote:
"... Congratulations!
You have received an URSA Fall Project Award. Please read the attached
award memo for details. ..."
WOOOOOOOT!!!!!
I admit that I wanted this pretty badly for a number of reasons, ranging from the way this will help with the quality of the production to the simple fact that most of these grants go to folks in the various sciences. Not to mention - thinking tactically here - that there is potentially something worthwhile in being able to say to potential grad schools that I wrote a grant proposal that got a production funded.....
So....yeah.
---Antigone: Dramaturgy, Design, and Performance---
WOOOOOOOOOT yet again!
Lots to do between now and auditions on September 12th. And then the show opens in early December. And URTA's in February. And a poster to present at the universities research day in April...
Yep. I'm excited.
More later.
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