Student Profile

Fall 1999

Bravas go to Karen Wurl, a non-traditional Honors student who has distinguished herself as a playwright, performer, and poet. With the support of Dr. Julia Matthews (her Honors mentor) and Dr. John Gentile, Ms. Wurl, a Theatre major, recently developed and expanded one of her plays, Death or Serious Injury Can Occur, as an Honors applied learning experience. The play is divided into two parts: the first half is the title piece, a collection of poetic monologues performed by the author herself, and the second half, The Play about Frank, is a one-act play dramatizing the themes and allusions of the first half. Produced this spring by Atlanta's Blue Machine Writers' Theatre, Death or Serious Injury Can Occur recently premiered at KSU, and has been entered in the American College Theatre Festival (ACTF). (If chosen in this competition, the play will be performed at the Kennedy Center.) In January and February of 1999, another of Ms. Wurl's plays, Only Children, was produced as part of the Essential Theatre's Festival of New American Plays and staged at Atlanta's Push-Push Theatre. Ms. Wurl, a native of Chicago and the mother of three daughters, plans to complement her theatre major with a minor in German, and may focus her Honors Senior Capstone Experience on Georg Buchner's play Woyzeck. She hopes, after graduating, to go into the Peace Corps. But until then, she will satisfy her desire to broaden her knowledge of different cultures by joining KSU's "Conversation Partners" program (based in the Department of University Studies, formerly the Department of Learning Support Programs) and going to Russia with students from a consortium of Georgia colleges and universities.

For more information:
Dr. Liza Davis, Director of the Honors Program
Kennesaw State University
1000 Chastain Road #1802
Kennesaw, GA 30144-5591
Office: LB 423
Phone: 678-797-2364
Fax: 770-423-6748
E-mail: honors@kennesaw.edu

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