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Acting alumnus Shaun Patrick Tubbs is the visiting guest director of Wright State Theatre’s production of “Sweat,” which runs from Feb. 3\u201313 in the Festival Playhouse.<\/p><\/div>\n

Wright State University was originally only going to be a short, temporary stop for him. But it turned into a solid four-year theatre education and paved the way for a successful acting and directing career.<\/p>\n

Currently based in New York City, Shaun Patrick Tubbs has built an impressive directing and acting pedigree.<\/p>\n

His directing credits include \u201cIn The Blood\u201d (Juilliard), \u201cLost in the Stars\u201d (Union Avenue Opera), \u201cIndependence Eve\u201d (Signature Theatre, Washington, D.C.) and \u201cWell-Intentioned White People\u201d (Orlando Shakespeare).<\/p>\n

His acting credits include \u201cSTAINED\u201d (New Ohio Theater), \u201cTerminus\u201d (NYTW) and “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare Abridged” (Human Race Theatre).<\/p>\n

Tubbs, who grew up in Cleveland, began acting when he was 5 years old, performing in a play called \u201cGoing Buggy.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI knew it’s what I wanted to do, what I was meant to do,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

After graduating from Cleveland Heights High School in 1997, he was accepted at New York University but discovered he was unable to afford the tuition. So he opted to go to Wright State temporarily.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was only supposed to be for one year, but I really felt at home in the theatre department so I decided it was where my training would be,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Tubbs said the highlight of his time at Wright State was during his senior year when he took part in the production of \u201cThe Laramie Project,\u201d which captured reaction to the 1998 murder of Matthew Shepherd, a gay college student in Laramie, Wyoming. Shepherd’s murder was denounced as a hate crime motivated by homophobia and brought attention to the lack of hate crimes laws in various states.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was more than just a show, but a culmination of everything I had learned over the four years prior,\u201d said Tubbs.<\/p>\n

He said Wright State taught him how to start to learn and see what was important to him.<\/p>\n

\u201cI learned that I could handle anything thrown my way and learn that I wasn’t supposed to be a finished product when I graduated,\u201d he said. \u201cOf course, the theatre and dance program was constructed so similarly to that of the professional world that upon graduation many people I worked with thought I’d had much more experience than I really had.\u201d<\/p>\n

After graduating from Wright State in 2002 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Acting<\/a>, Tubbs was cast in two professional theatre productions \u2014”Lobby Here” at the Contemporary American Theatre Company in Columbus and “Jitney” at the Human Race Theatre Company in Dayton.<\/p>\n

Soon after finishing those productions, Tubbs moved to Los Angeles. He later earned a master\u2019s degree in fine arts at the University of Texas.<\/p>\n

Tubbs said the thing he is most proud of professionally was producing “The Book of Grace” written and directed by Pulitzer Prize winner Suzan-Lori Parks, in Austin, Texas.<\/p>\n

He returned to Wright State Theatre to serve as the guest director of Lynn Nottage\u2019s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama \u201cSweat,\u201d which portrays the working class of Reading, Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n

“Sweat” runs from Feb. 10 through Feb. 20 in the Festival Playhouse in the Creative Arts Center.<\/p>\n

Tubbs said the biggest challenge for him professionally is patience.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe arts \u2014 like much of life \u2014 requires one to constantly put themselves out there, often to be scrutinized or judged,\u201d he said. \u201cSo you have to be not only tough but patient as well. The most gratifying thing is just that I still love the arts as much as I did the first day I did it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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