World Premiere of ‘La Cocina’ Leaves the Stage Sizzling

By Sophia Grausso / May 3, 2023

“The setting, all within a day’s work, begins with the employees clocking in, watching the kitchen and waiting staff trickle into an expansive restaurant full of everyone’s food service classics: brown crate barrels doubling as seats and tables, stainless steel surfaces with century-old stains, cubbies with forgotten memorabilia. The set of “La Cocina” — designed by Katie Heaton, Fordham College at Lincoln Center (FCLC) ’23 — could not be more perfectly staged.”

The Olio Collection

Rockwell Group / Civilian Hotel (Website + Socials)

The jewel of our latest collaboration, the @CIVILIANHotel, in the heart of NYC's bustling theater district, is the Olio Collection: a curated exhibition with over 350 pieces of art, both permanent and rotating artifacts, original works, and archival photography, including sketches, models, photographs, props, costumes, murals, and custom furnishings, located throughout the property and representing more than 100 years of Broadway history.

Fordham Theatre’s White Anti-Racist Working Group

By Sean Ryan / February 2, 2022

Following advice from the Black, Indigenous, and People of Color Student Alliance, students within the Fordham theatre department created the White Anti-Racist Working Group (WARWG). In their introductory Instagram Post, the group called on white-identifying Fordham theatre students to join their meetings and educate themselves about issues surrounding racism…

Katie Heaton, FCLC ’23 and a social media chair for WARWG, noted that last semester the group had conversations that needed to be had. Heaton referred to WARWG as a microcosm of the larger community, which is how the group approaches which issues to address at meetings. “

The Role of Art During a Revolution

By Vicky Carmenate / July 8, 2020

Fordham students paired up with other students and friends across the country to start a Black Lives Matter Auction…

Lucy Murray, Fordham College at Lincoln Center (FCLC) ’23, was one of the main organizers of the auction, alongside Katie Heaton, FCLC ’23. Lu Aubin, FCLC ’23, and other Fordham artists contributed their own work to be sold as well…

Heaton, who was responsible for marketing, addressed the fact that many older white folks have the funds to buy the art that they were making. “For the artists to realize that their talents could be used to appeal to an audience that, as sad as it is, wouldn’t donate otherwise is extremely important,” Murray said. 

Production/Projection Design Feature

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