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- ↑ 3rd Annual Seattle FringeACT Festival, Geography Club Archived 2011-07-13 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Nagle, Matt - Festival of Northwest Plays, Tacoma Weekly (14 February 2008)
- ↑ Ponnekanti, Rosemary - Tacoma’s new Festival of Northwest Plays celebrates local talent Archived 2012-09-13 at archive.today , The News Tribune (19 February 2008)
- ↑ Ponnekanti, Rosemary - Heartfelt emotion, mixed acting in stage adaptation of “Geography Club” [ permanent dead link ], The News Tribune (21 February 2008)
- ↑ Photo from the University of Utah production
