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Keith Testa
Tue, 14 Jun 2022 10:30 -0400

Michael Blackman doesn’t hesitate for an instant when considering what’s more likely to cause the biggest spike in his nerves – his daily role as dean of students at UNH, or his return to the stage and New Hampshire theater debut in this summer’s production of Footloose as part of the Prescott Park Arts Festival in Portsmouth. “It will certainly be this,” Blackman says of the performance. “You’d think after dealing with massive crises and protests and various other student issues that my day-to-day job would be the scarier thing, but I haven’t been on stage in about 10 years.” Blackman is one of more than a dozen members of the UNH community (including a handful of students who just graduated) who will be involved this summer in a production directed by Tom Alsip, assistant professor and...