Theatre company founded by TDPS alum wins Helen Hayes Award

This blog post is by Emily Schweich, junior broadcast journalism major.

Jason Schlafstein

Jason Schlafstein photo by Wilder Photography
 

Fun, quirky and genre-based – that’s the kind of theatre that inspires Jason Schlafstein.

He often saw it at the Capital Fringe Festival, but “it didn’t seem like year-round theatres were doing theatre that had that kind of spirit all year,” he said.

So Schlafstein, a University of Maryland School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies (TDPS) alumnus who received his B.A. in Theatre Performance in 2008, joined with Colin Grube to found Flying V Theatre in 2010. The company was recently named the 2015 John Aniello Outstanding Emerging Theatre Company by theatreWashington and the Helen Hayes Awards.

The UMD family is a really strong one,” Schlafstein said. “I’ve never seen in this town a group of alumni who are so invested and supportive in working with one another.”

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