The Department of Dramatic Art Mainstage is an advanced extra-curricular production venue founded and supported by the Department of Dramatic Art. This venue provides undergraduate students with a rare opportunity to work with faculty and guest artists and receive mentorship from professional artists, administrators, and graduate students.

Undergraduates working with Mainstage are afforded mentorship in the areas of technical production, costuming, properties, dramaturgy, marketing, producing and acting. Additionally, DDA Mainstage regularly sponsors interdisciplinary activities, including symposia, lectures, and discussions that make the most of the exceptional and artistic scholarship that Carolina has to offer.

Upcoming Production:

DDA Mainstage presents DEAD MAN WALKING by Tim Robbins
Adapted from the book by Sister Helen Prejean
In association with the CPAS Creative Campus Initiative Criminal/Justice: The Death Penalty Examined Dead Man Walking Poster
Directed by Julie Fishell
April 11 - 15
Elizabeth Price Kenan Theatre
Center for Dramatic Art

Performances:
Friday April 11, 8:15pm
Saturday, April 12, 5:00pm
Sunday, April 13, 8:15pm
Monday, April 14, 4:00pm and 8:15pm
Tuesday, April 15, 5:00pm

Ticket info:  ddamainstage@yahoo.com
Creative Campus Initiative: go here.
College of Arts and Science article on campus-wide Death Penalty conversation events, go here.

Carolina Week coverage of the Death Penalty Conversation as well as DEAD MAN WALKING, go here and here.

DEAD MAN WALKING Post-Show Events:

Friday, April 11: Community conversation

Saturday, April 12: “Prisms of Faith”:  An inter-faith guest panel leads a community conversation of religious histories, stances and actions on death penalty issues

Sunday, April 13: Community conversation with Sister Maureen Fenlon, National Coordinator for the Dead Man Walking Schools Theatre Project

Monday, April 14:  Community conversation moderated by Mark Kleinschmidt, Executive Director of the Fair Trial Initiative and member of the Town Council of Chapel Hill

Monday, April 14: Community conversation with the Production Team

Contact:  ddamainstage@yahoo.com

To find out more about the history of DDA Mainstage go here.

For additional information regarding DDA Mainstage please contact Julie Fishell, Faculty Advisor, at fishell@email.unc.edu or e-mail: mainstagestafflistserv.unc.edu