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UAB Theatre Presents an Alumni’s Play

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Jaime Ritter Student Contributor, University of Alabama at Birmingham
This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at UAB chapter and does not reflect the views of Her Campus.

The UAB theatre department will be presenting Postcards to J. Bird, an award-winning play from alumnus Stephen Webb. Webb, a 2009 graduate, wrote the play in 2008. Since then, his play has won a Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival 2011 David L. Shelton Full-Length Student Playwriting Award. According to UAB News, “The play stars students Trista Baker of Warrior, Noah Holcomb of Empire, Natalie Kinsaul of Corner and Koskinen, M.F.A., UAB associate professor of theatre, as Joanna.” 

Play Schedule:
November 9-20:
Wed-Sat: 7:30 pm
Sunday: 2pm matinee

General admission tickets are $12; students $6; UAB employees and senior citizens $10. Call 205-975-2787

Postcards to J. Bird is about a mother’s problem with denying her past and denying one’s own truth. It tackles themes of abandonment, conformity and identity.

Sources:
uab.edu/uabnews

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Jaime Ritter

Jaime is a junior at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. There she is the captain of her varsity golf team and a journalism and English double-major. She is an active member in the Student Athletic Advisory Committee where she helps organize volunteer opportunities and social functions for student-athletes at UAB. Jaime enjoys cooking, entertaining friends, reading/writing blogs, fashion, and of course, golf. She aspires to eventually write for a major magazine or write chick-lit books.