{"id":104,"date":"2022-02-15T08:55:35","date_gmt":"2022-02-15T13:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inside.wooster.edu\/theatre-dance\/?p=104"},"modified":"2022-02-15T08:56:05","modified_gmt":"2022-02-15T13:56:05","slug":"oscar-nominee-darius-scott-dixson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inside.wooster.edu\/theatre-dance\/oscar-nominee-darius-scott-dixson\/","title":{"rendered":"Oscar nominee Darius Scott Dixson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"681\" src=\"https:\/\/inside.wooster.edu\/theatre-dance\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2022\/02\/273844474_10159265681205971_2407359439085163331_n-2-1024x681.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-92 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/inside.wooster.edu\/theatre-dance\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2022\/02\/273844474_10159265681205971_2407359439085163331_n-2-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/inside.wooster.edu\/theatre-dance\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2022\/02\/273844474_10159265681205971_2407359439085163331_n-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/inside.wooster.edu\/theatre-dance\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2022\/02\/273844474_10159265681205971_2407359439085163331_n-2-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/inside.wooster.edu\/theatre-dance\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2022\/02\/273844474_10159265681205971_2407359439085163331_n-2-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/inside.wooster.edu\/theatre-dance\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2022\/02\/273844474_10159265681205971_2407359439085163331_n-2.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>Shout-out to Oscar Nominee Darius Scott Dixson \u201913, \u201cDIXSON,\u201d as he\u2019s now known as a musical artist. He received an Oscar nomination in the Best Original Song category this week for the music and lyrics of \u201cBe Alive\u201d from the motion picture King Richard, alongside Beyonc\u00e9 Knowles-Carter. The song plays during the credits for the film that focuses on the story of the father of tennis superstars Venus and Serena Williams with footage of the family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While at Wooster, Dixson participated regularly in both theatre productions and dance concerts. Here he is (left) as Tom in Tennessee Williams&#8217; <em>The Glass Menagerie<\/em>, directed by Professor Huston-Findley, in 2011.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shout-out to Oscar Nominee Darius Scott Dixson \u201913, \u201cDIXSON,\u201d as he\u2019s now known as a musical artist. He received an Oscar nomination in the Best Original Song category this week for the music and lyrics of \u201cBe Alive\u201d from the motion picture King Richard, alongside Beyonc\u00e9 Knowles-Carter. The song plays during the credits for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9,10,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alums","category-award","category-news","category-recognition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.wooster.edu\/theatre-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.wooster.edu\/theatre-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.wooster.edu\/theatre-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.wooster.edu\/theatre-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.wooster.edu\/theatre-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inside.wooster.edu\/theatre-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105,"href":"https:\/\/inside.wooster.edu\/theatre-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions\/105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.wooster.edu\/theatre-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.wooster.edu\/theatre-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.wooster.edu\/theatre-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}