{"id":35322,"date":"2024-01-10T13:26:42","date_gmt":"2024-01-10T13:26:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/commencement\/?page_id=35322"},"modified":"2025-02-03T00:42:27","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T00:42:27","slug":"erica-fee-99","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/commencement\/speakers\/erica-fee-99\/","title":{"rendered":"Erica Fee \u201999"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":34872,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-35322","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"lead_in":"2016 Commencement Speaker","display_title":"","subtitle":"","call_to_action":"","hero_image_placement":"right_image","hero_media":"images","hero_pattern_option":"","hero_video":"","hero_image_landing":35062,"hero_image_landing_two":"","hero_image_landing_three":"","content_modules":[{"acf_fc_layout":"text","anchor":"","css_class":"","title":"","content":"Erica Fee is the founding producer and board presi\u00addent of the First Niagara Rochester Fringe Festival, a successful, annual, multi\u00addisciplinary arts festival, which celebrates its fifth year in 2016. 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Her many producing, directing, and performance credits include UK premieres and London and Edinburgh Fringe productions.\r\n\r\nFee was the first American to receive the prestigious New Producer's Award from Stage One (Society of London Theatres\/TMA), winning twice-the maxi\u00admum amount that it can be received. She was men\u00adtored by acclaimed Broadway and West End producer, Paul Elliott.\r\n\r\nAt the University of Rochester, Fee was a Xerox Scholar and member of Phi Beta Kappa. She gradu\u00adated magna cum laude with a BA in political science and history with a minor in theater. She was a Take Five Scholar.\r\n\r\nFee received classical acting training from the Arts Educational Schools London. 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