Mike-<br>What a shame MIT is loosing such a talented person! Their loss, definitely. I'll keep my ear to the ground, and pass on stuff that looks like it might be interesting.<br><br>See you next week!<br><br>All the best,<br>
<br>Cosmo<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 11:49 AM, Michael Katz <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mkatz@mit.edu">mkatz@mit.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div style="word-wrap:break-word"><span style="text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-variant:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;font-style:normal;display:inline!important;font-weight:normal;float:none;line-height:normal;text-transform:none;font-size:13px;white-space:normal;font-family:arial,sans-serif;word-spacing:0px">Good Morning Friends,</span><br style="text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-variant:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;line-height:normal;text-transform:none;font-size:13px;white-space:normal;font-family:arial,sans-serif;word-spacing:0px">
<span style="text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-variant:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;font-style:normal;display:inline!important;font-weight:normal;float:none;line-height:normal;text-transform:none;font-size:13px;white-space:normal;font-family:arial,sans-serif;word-spacing:0px">I look forward to seeing many of you at USITT next week. I wanted to </span><span style="text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-variant:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;font-style:normal;display:inline!important;font-weight:normal;float:none;line-height:normal;text-transform:none;font-size:13px;white-space:normal;font-family:arial,sans-serif;word-spacing:0px">get this out to all of you so we can concentrate on good and not </span><span style="text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-variant:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;font-style:normal;display:inline!important;font-weight:normal;float:none;line-height:normal;text-transform:none;font-size:13px;white-space:normal;font-family:arial,sans-serif;word-spacing:0px">negative.</span><br style="text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-variant:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;line-height:normal;text-transform:none;font-size:13px;white-space:normal;font-family:arial,sans-serif;word-spacing:0px">
<span style="text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-variant:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;font-style:normal;display:inline!important;font-weight:normal;float:none;line-height:normal;text-transform:none;font-size:13px;white-space:normal;font-family:arial,sans-serif;word-spacing:0px">After 13 years at MIT (35 years working as a TD), The theater faculty </span><span style="text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-variant:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;font-style:normal;display:inline!important;font-weight:normal;float:none;line-height:normal;text-transform:none;font-size:13px;white-space:normal;font-family:arial,sans-serif;word-spacing:0px">here decided not to continue my contract. I am somewhat upset for </span><span style="text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-variant:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;font-style:normal;display:inline!important;font-weight:normal;float:none;line-height:normal;text-transform:none;font-size:13px;white-space:normal;font-family:arial,sans-serif;word-spacing:0px">myself but much more for the students and the program that I have </span><span style="text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-variant:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;font-style:normal;display:inline!important;font-weight:normal;float:none;line-height:normal;text-transform:none;font-size:13px;white-space:normal;font-family:arial,sans-serif;word-spacing:0px">worked so hard for.</span><div>
<span style="text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-variant:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;font-style:normal;display:inline!important;font-weight:normal;float:none;line-height:normal;text-transform:none;font-size:13px;white-space:normal;font-family:arial,sans-serif;word-spacing:0px">It was about politics in Academia, Who would ever guess that. :-) And </span><span style="text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-variant:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;font-style:normal;display:inline!important;font-weight:normal;float:none;line-height:normal;text-transform:none;font-size:13px;white-space:normal;font-family:arial,sans-serif;word-spacing:0px">no it had nothing to do with money, it was about power and power </span><span style="text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-variant:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;font-style:normal;display:inline!important;font-weight:normal;float:none;line-height:normal;text-transform:none;font-size:13px;white-space:normal;font-family:arial,sans-serif;word-spacing:0px">inequity in academia. As new Faculty were hired they chaffed more and </span><span style="text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-variant:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;font-style:normal;display:inline!important;font-weight:normal;float:none;line-height:normal;text-transform:none;font-size:13px;white-space:normal;font-family:arial,sans-serif;word-spacing:0px">more at having me (and my experience) in a position of responsibility. </span><span style="text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-variant:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;font-style:normal;display:inline!important;font-weight:normal;float:none;line-height:normal;text-transform:none;font-size:13px;white-space:normal;font-family:arial,sans-serif;word-spacing:0px">There are may stories that could be told but you all probably have </span><span style="text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-variant:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;font-style:normal;display:inline!important;font-weight:normal;float:none;line-height:normal;text-transform:none;font-size:13px;white-space:normal;font-family:arial,sans-serif;word-spacing:0px">heard or experienced them yourselves so I refuse to dwell on them.</span><br style="text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-variant:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;line-height:normal;text-transform:none;font-size:13px;white-space:normal;font-family:arial,sans-serif;word-spacing:0px">
<span style="text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-variant:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;font-style:normal;display:inline!important;font-weight:normal;float:none;line-height:normal;text-transform:none;font-size:13px;white-space:normal;font-family:arial,sans-serif;word-spacing:0px">I am not sure what I will do next but I am not worried, My gorgeous </span><span style="text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-variant:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;font-style:normal;display:inline!important;font-weight:normal;float:none;line-height:normal;text-transform:none;font-size:13px;white-space:normal;font-family:arial,sans-serif;word-spacing:0px">and brilliant wife is a Director of Medical Writing at a major Biotech </span><span style="text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-variant:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;font-style:normal;display:inline!important;font-weight:normal;float:none;line-height:normal;text-transform:none;font-size:13px;white-space:normal;font-family:arial,sans-serif;word-spacing:0px">firm and she has and will continue to support me in the manner to </span><span style="text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-variant:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;font-style:normal;display:inline!important;font-weight:normal;float:none;line-height:normal;text-transform:none;font-size:13px;white-space:normal;font-family:arial,sans-serif;word-spacing:0px">which I have become accustomed. So I have time to find a good </span><span style="text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-variant:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;font-style:normal;display:inline!important;font-weight:normal;float:none;line-height:normal;text-transform:none;font-size:13px;white-space:normal;font-family:arial,sans-serif;word-spacing:0px">meaningful job and not just the first one that comes along. I am </span><span style="text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-variant:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;font-style:normal;display:inline!important;font-weight:normal;float:none;line-height:normal;text-transform:none;font-size:13px;white-space:normal;font-family:arial,sans-serif;word-spacing:0px">incredibly lucky to have that support.</span></div>
<div><span style="text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-variant:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;font-style:normal;display:inline!important;font-weight:normal;float:none;line-height:normal;text-transform:none;font-size:13px;white-space:normal;font-family:arial,sans-serif;word-spacing:0px"><br>
</span></div><div><span style="text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-variant:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;font-style:normal;display:inline!important;font-weight:normal;float:none;line-height:normal;text-transform:none;font-size:13px;white-space:normal;font-family:arial,sans-serif;word-spacing:0px">If any one has a inkling about a PM or TD job, or perhaps adjunct teaching on tech or management let me know, I will be at MIT through this semester. </span></div>
<div><span style="text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-variant:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;font-style:normal;display:inline!important;font-weight:normal;float:none;line-height:normal;text-transform:none;font-size:13px;white-space:normal;font-family:arial,sans-serif;word-spacing:0px"><br>
</span></div><div><span style="text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-variant:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;font-style:normal;display:inline!important;font-weight:normal;float:none;line-height:normal;text-transform:none;font-size:13px;white-space:normal;font-family:arial,sans-serif;word-spacing:0px">I look forward to raising a glass (or 2) with you all soon</span><br style="text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-variant:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;line-height:normal;text-transform:none;font-size:13px;white-space:normal;font-family:arial,sans-serif;word-spacing:0px">
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<span style="text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-variant:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;font-style:normal;display:inline!important;font-weight:normal;float:none;line-height:normal;text-transform:none;font-size:13px;white-space:normal;font-family:arial,sans-serif;word-spacing:0px">Bruised but kicking</span><br style="text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-variant:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;line-height:normal;text-transform:none;font-size:13px;white-space:normal;font-family:arial,sans-serif;word-spacing:0px">
<span style="text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-variant:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;font-style:normal;display:inline!important;font-weight:normal;float:none;line-height:normal;text-transform:none;font-size:13px;white-space:normal;font-family:arial,sans-serif;word-spacing:0px">Mike</span><br>
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<br>-----<br>Michael Katz<br><a href="mailto:mkatz@mit.edu" target="_blank">mkatz@mit.edu</a><br>Technical Instructor<br>MIT Theater Arts<br>Rinaldi Production Center <br>34 Carleton St E33-110<br>Cambridge MA 02142<br>617.253.0824 Desk<br>
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<br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><font size="1">Cosmo Catalano<br>Production Manager<br>Williams College Dept of Theatre<br>Center for Theatre and Dance<br>413-597-2590</font><br><br>