On the heels of Tiger Band director Linda Moorhouse’s resignation announcement, the College of Music & Dramatic Arts will lose another prominent faculty member this month.Department of Theatre Chair Michael Tick has accepted a position as dean of the College of Fine Arts at the University of Kentucky, according to a press release from LSU Media Relations.
Kristin Sosnowsky, managing director of Swine Palace, will assume the position of interim department chair upon Tick’s leave, according to the press releaseTick — who first came to the University in 1999 — saw the Department of Theatre earn       accreditation in 2006 and had his production of “The Heidi Chronicles” featured at the Shanghai Dramatic Arts Centre and the Beijing Central Academy of Drama in 2007. “I’m thrilled that my colleague Kristin Sosnowsky … is taking over, especially since the department is in a period of unprecedented vitality and accomplishment,” Tick said in the press release.   
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