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Kathleen Mulligan, professor in the Department of Theatre and Dance Performance, is one of 14 faculty members at IC who have received Fulbright Scholarships in the past decade. Mulligan left for Amritsar, India, on Dec. 12, 2022, to complete her Fulbright-Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Fellowship research.

IC recognized as top Fulbright Award producer

By Noa Ran-Ressler, Assistant News Editor • March 8, 2023
Ithaca College has been recognized by the Fulbright Program for supporting many Fulbright Scholars and for its commitment to academic achievement.
Minita Gandhi performed her one-women play “Muthaland” April 29 in the Clark Theatre of the Dillingham Center. The play profiles some of the most intense moments of her life.

Minita Gandhi adapts her experiences for the stage

By Olivia Riggio, Staff Writer • May 3, 2017
Gandhi plays multiple roles in “Muthaland,” including that of her assaulter, differentiating between characters by using changes in mannerisms.
Kathleen Mulligan, associate professor of voice and speech at Ithaca College, received a $327,000 grant to help create her new play, tentatively titled “On Common Ground.”

IC professor receives grant from US Embassy in Pakistan

By Colette Piasecki-Masters, Staff Writer • October 26, 2016
Kathleen Mulligan plans to create a play with a Pakistani theater group aided by a large grant from the U.S. Embassy of Islamabad.
FLEFF is a local annual film festival and has been sponsored by Ithaca College since 2004. The theme of this year’s festival, which runs from March 28 to April 3, will be landscapes, which the FLEFF website describes as potentially being “material and immaterial, built and imagined.”

Annual environmental film festival returns to Ithaca College

By Faith Meckley, News Editor • March 27, 2016
The 19th annual Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival will feature films produced from around the world on topics like women’s health clinics, hydraulic fracturing, climbing Mount Everest and the Indian-Pakistani partition.
Audience members in The Cherry Arts’ “White Rabbit Red Rabbit” are called up to the stage to interact with the play during the Dec. 4 showing. The play was written by Iranian playwright Nassim Soleimanpour.

Grab the play by the ears: Actors face artistic challenges

By Angela Poffenbaugh, Staff Writer • December 9, 2015
Unlike most plays, "White Rabbit Red Rabbit" has no set, prior rehearsals or director, with a different actor for each of the seven nights who have not read the script until the moment they step on stage.
Kathleen Mulligan, associate professor in the theater department, has been working with Theatre Wallay to develop a play about the 1947 Partition between India and Pakistan. She hosted a screening of her documentary on the "Voices of Partition" project Oct. 2.

Q&A: Theater professor discusses “Voices of Partition”

By Maura Aleardi, Staff Writer • October 7, 2015
"Partition was a pretty painful period in history, but it’s also getting to hear stories of just everyday people and realize how much we’re alike."

College Briefing: Jan. 22

January 21, 2015
TCAT route adds new Circle Apartments stop, Professor receives grant to create Pakistani play, and more

Multitalented couple speaks on theater and fiction

By Vicky Wolak, Chief Copy Editor • October 3, 2013
This week, actor-writers Malcolm Hillgartner and Jahnna Beecham held two presentations at Ithaca College.
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