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Sept. 26, award-winning actor and director Ed Begley Jr. will join
the St. Edward’s University community for a benefit performance
and the Austin premier of his play Cesar & Ruben. Begley
will co-direct the production, highlighting events in the lives
of labor leader Cesar Chavez and LA Times writer Ruben
Salazar. The benefit performance, sponsored by SBC Communications
Inc., includes the music of Ruben Blades, Enrique Iglesias, Carlos
Santana and other well-known musicians.
After receiving six Emmy nominations for his portrayal of Dr. Victor
Ehrlich on the hit series St. Elsewhere, Begley has excelled
in feature, television and theater projects. His feature film credits
include A Mighty Wind, Batman Forever and The
Accidental Tourist. He just completed a new television pilot
for the WB called True, starring Anne Heche.
Begley was a student of St. Edward’s University Assistant
Professor of Music Brother Gerald Muller, CSC when he taught previously
at Notre Dame High School in Sherman Oaks, Calif. Their longtime
friendship led Begley to bring his production to St. Edward’s
University.
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Who: The St. Edward’s University Theater Arts program
• What: Benefit performance and the Austin premier of the
play Cesar & Ruben, sponsored by SBC Communications
Inc. and benefiting the Theater Arts and College Assistance Migrant
Program (CAMP)
• When: Monday, Sept. 26. Reception at 6:30 p.m., followed
by the play at 7:30 p.m.
• Where: St. Edward’s University Mary Moody Northen
Theatre, located at 3001 South Congress Avenue.
Benefit ticket pricing begins at $100. For more information, contact
Rachel Reitmeyer Elder at rachelr@admin.stedwards.edu.
About the theatre: The Mary Moody Northen Theatre of St. Edward’s
University offers one of the only pre-professional undergraduate
theater programs of its kind in the United States. Designed for
the student–artist, the program offers theater-based academic
training with a rigorous liberal arts curriculum.
Founded
by the Congregation of Holy Cross, St. Edward’s University
has been named as one of America’s Best Colleges for 2006
by U.S. News & World Report and was selected by The
Princeton Review for inclusion in the guide Colleges with a
Conscience.
St. Edward’s is a private, Catholic, liberal arts university
of approximately 4,650 students located in Austin, Texas.
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