News
Theatre Management and Producing alumnus Aaron Simms ’15 is the producer of Mendelssohn on the Hudson, a self-guided historical and musical walking tour of the German Jewish Washington Heights.
Theatre alumna Heather Alicia Simms ’96 will have a recurring role on the new show The Kings of Napa.
We’re delighted to welcome a number of new faculty members to the 2021/22 academic year.
Stars Behind The Stars is a bi-weekly series featuring theatre makers behind the scenes.
In her introductory remarks before the October 6 Listening Party reading of Appointment With gOD, Ugandan playwright Asiimwe Deborah Kawe compared a US embassy in a developing country to "a temple."
“I dreamed there was a city. My home. And the sky arched blue above it as if to hold it in its gaze. As if it would last forever. Great in its history. Famous in its exploits.”
Acting alumna Nadia Sepsenwol ’09 is a resident actor at The Mercury Store who is currently working with Directing alumnus and former Adjunct Professor Robert O’Hara ’96. O’Hara is a prominent playwright and director. He recently directed Jeremy O’Harris’ Slave Play, which premiered on Broadway and was nominated for twelve Tony Awards, including Best Director.
Wilder Shorts! opens with a pair of people on stage, chatting. An actor, and a stagehand; they’re not in character, they’re simply talking.
Playwriting alumna Ayvaunn Penn ’18 is directing Associate Professor Lynn Nottage’s play Fabulation or, the Re-Education of Undine at Jubilee Theatre. The Jubilee Theatre is a historically Black theater located in Fort Worth, Texas.
Playwriting alumna Kristin Slaney '16 and Film alumnus Jabari McDonald '18 both participated in Outfest’s 2021 Screenwriting Lab as two of eleven writers earlier this month.
Theater director Anne Bogart draws connections between visual art, performance theory, neuroscience, music, and architecture in her new book.
