Recent News
Adam Versényi Interviewed on Dramaturgy, Translation, and the Chairs Leadership Program
In this interview with the Institute for Art and Humanities, Professor Adam Versényi shares his collaborative work in dramaturgy and translation projects. He also discusses his previous fellowships with the IAH and also what the current Chairs Leadership Program cohort is up to this year… Read more
Escalating Drama Department Cuts and Mergers Impact Us All
Professors Jacqueline Lawton and Rachel Pollock write on the impact of university and college downsizing on theatre design and production programs … Read more
Tao Wang Uses Innovative Design Techniques To Transform Live Performances
Tao Wang is an assistant professor in the Department of Dramatic Art within the UNC College of Arts and Sciences. He integrates digital media and AI technologies into theatrical design to create immersive and interactive experiences that … Read more
Alumna Hayley Adler Receives Arts Honors
The club also recognized Hayley Adler ’13, who teaches drama at Brooklyn High School of the Arts in Brooklyn, New York. Her students were chosen to perform at the Shubert Foundation High School Theatre Festival, hosted by actress and singer Bernadette Peters, in the Winter Garden … Read more
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Rachel and Athene have published an article!
An article by costume production MFA candidate Athene Wright and PRC crafts artisan Rachel E. Pollock, “Thoroughly Modern Millinery”, is featured on the cover of the winter edition of Theatre Design & Technology. The piece summarizes their research into 3D scanning … Read more
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The Dramaturgy of Space and Imagined Theatres-Chile
Chair of Dramatic Art, Adam Versényi has published his translation of Chilean playwright/director Ramón Griffero’s The Dramaturgy of Space. He has also co-edited and co-translated Imagined Theatres-Chile:, in a bilingual English/Spanish edition with Alexandra Ripp, Mauricio Barria, Anne García-Romero, Pía Gutiérrez, and … Read more
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Posters accepted for USITT conference!
Athene Wright and Sherry Wu’s abstracts were both accepted to the costume commission poster session at the USITT conference this year!
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Allen Tedder ’13 in The Alchemist!
Allen Tedder ’13 is in The Alchemist playing Kastril, the show is being produced by the Red Bull Theatre in New York. LONDON. 1610. It’s plague time again. When a wealthy gentleman flees to the country, his trusted servant opens … Read more
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A History of the Theatre Costume Business
A good read written by our very own Triffin Morris and Rachel Pollock! A History of the Theatre Costume Business is the first-ever comprehensive book on the subject, as related by award-winning actors and designers, and first hand by the drapers, … Read more
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Alumna Shelley Butler (’98) starts new theatre company
Shelley Butler (DDA ’98) and her husband West Hyler have formed a brand-new company; Artistic Stamp. It’s an interactive theater company that produces mail-based plays in the form of written correspondence. The inaugural season has 6 different interactive plays and … Read more
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Mac Rogers Journey in American Theatre
A big congrats to Mac Rogers’ whose podcast dramas (Steal the Stars, The Message, and LifeAfter) were downloaded over ten million times!! As such he was interviewed by THE AMERICAN THEATRE magazine to find out more about the man behind these profound … Read more
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Acting for the Non-Major
The acting class for non-actors