UA Theater arts verteran to leave after 10 years

Julia DeHesus is making her final curtain call.

After having devoted 10 years of hard work and fundraising to the UA theater arts department, DeHesus will step down as its director of marketing and development on Feb. 16.

"I like her. I think she's really good at what she does, and I'm disappointed that she's not going to be here," said Marroney Theater box office employee and theater arts senior Carin Galanter.

DeHesus will leave the University of Arizona to become the head of the MFA theater management program at the University of Central Florida in Orlando.

"The reason I'm taking the new job is that it's an opportunity to move from an academic professional position to head up an MFA program in my own discipline," DeHesus said. "Although I teach theater management courses here in the department of theater arts, we really don't have a formal theater management program in the undergraduate or graduate level. That may happen someday, but this opportunity came up, and I think I'm ready to take it now and start there and help build that program."