Signs of the Times - Teresa Dowell-Vest
November 2002
You Never Know Who You'll See on CTS: Teresa Dowell-Vest
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Teresa Dowell-Vest

Teresa Dowell-Vest has just finished participating in a commercial for CTS.

According to Marketing Director Diane Taylor, the TV commercial "is just one element of a comprehensive "choice" marketing campaign targeting discretionary riders. CTS ridership has increased with over one million passenger trips in FY 02 and the rising trend continues.

More people are "choosing" to ride for reasons beyond necessity: to help reduce traffic, parking congestion, to protect the natural environment, to save money on gas & parking,... many points highlighted in the upcoming commercial." (Diane Taylor, electronic mail, October 16, 2002).

Teresa says, "More people on the bus means less traffic on the road" [1 full bus = 6 blocks of people driving alone].

What is Teresa Dowell-Vest doing when she is not participating in commercials for CTS?

In May 2000, University Drama Prof. Ishmail Conway produced her new play 'Vinegar Hill,' at Charlottesville's Live Arts.

From November 7-10 and 14-17, 2002, Teresa will be guest directing Rita Dove's Darker Face of The Earth at Piedmont Virginia Community College's V. Earl Dickinson Building, Main Stage.

Synopsis:

The Darker Face of the Earth incorporates themes of Sophocles' Greek tragedy, Oedipus Rex, but sets the action on a South Carolina plantation in the 1840's. In a Prologue, set twenty years earlier, Amalia, the plantation owner's wife, gives birth to a male child fathered by Hector, an African slave. Despite Amalia's grief, the child, ordered to be killed by Amalia's husband, Louis, is rather sold into slavery. Twenty years later Amalia is running the plantation when a new, rebellious slave, Augustus Newcastle, is purchased. As the fires of rebellion, led by Augustus, threaten to engulf the plantation society, Augustus and Amalia are drawn together into a passionate and dangerous relationship that will bring about the fulfillment of their tragic destiny.

Teresa has also formed a new company, Dowell-Vest Communications Group, for which she is President and CEO.

Comments? Questions? Write me at george@loper.org.