Notable Alumni, October 2016

Randy Abreu '11 was sworn into the New York Bar and completed a yearlong congressional fellowship as a policy liaison on Capitol Hill and at the Federal Communications Commission. A New York State delegate at this year's Democratic National Convention, he recently took a job as special policy advisor to the director of the federal Clean Energy Investment Center.

In August Julia Pistell '05 and husband Greg Ludovici '04 opened Connecticut's first professional improv, the Sea Tea Comedy Theater in Hartford. They and five others perform improv, sketch and standup every weekend. The couple is also producing the Hartford Improv Festival, slated for April 6–7, 2017.

Work by Cleveland-based artist and brand consultant Mac Love '01 was featured on the set of this year's Republican National Convention and on Lebron James's CNBC show Cleveland Hustles. Love's work has become a popular backdrop for celebrating the city, and he recently completed murals for Hillary Clinton's Ohio campaign headquarters.

For Luis Alicea '99, everything's comin' up STEM. A National Science Foundation scholar for his master's study, he has won an American Association for the Advancement of Science award for a third year as a Seton Hall Ph.D. student in organic chemistry. He was just hired to teach at a health-science charter school in Jersey City, N.J.

Journalist and educator Katy Kramer '68 has authored Portsmouth Naval Prison, a history of the iconic island fortress near her home in Kittery, Maine. Notoriously harsh during much of its 60-year life, "the Rock" was at times a lab for experiments in prisoner rehabilitation.

Liz LeCompte '67, co-founder and director of the Wooster Group theater, will receive the 23rd annual Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize on November 3 at the Whitney Museum in NYC. One of the arts' most prestigious awards, the Gish prize has gone to Arthur Miller, Ingmar Bergman, Spike Lee, and Bill T. Jones. [more]