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Standing tall
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Winter 2008 • Volume 14, Issue 1
Playing the part(s) Fall television viewers may have spotted Janice Allen ’92 on the season premiere of Cane and seen the production work of Matt MacDonald ’98 on a series of high-profile commercials. Earlier in the year, theatergoers who had tickets for the first national tour of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee laughed with Eric T. Petersen ’03 in the role of spelling champ William Barfée.
In a Slane College of Communications and Fine Arts podcast, Petersen discusses his work in show business, his role in a touring Broadway production, and his sources of imagination, creativity, and communication. More > |
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Janice Allen appeared as the socialite mother on Cane, a new CBS drama starring Jimmy Smits. Last summer she also was a regular on S.O.B., a BET series. Before she began acting, Janice earned a chemistry degree at Bradley and a master’s degree in physical chemistry at UCLA. “feel like I really couldn’t have taken any other path,” she remarks. Janice lives in Los Angeles.
Matt MacDonald, a creative director at JWT New York (formerly J. Walter Thompson), is in charge of the Smirnoff and Macy’s accounts. Matt wrote and produced the popular 
Eric Petersen traveled with The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee national tour, beginning in August 2006. When the musical comedy’s tour was over in May 2007, Eric acted in summer stock at the Barn Theatre in Augusta, Michigan. The season included The Producers, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, and Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. Eric resides in New York.