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Recent PhD graduate alum Erin Kaplan and current PhD graduate student Sarah Fahmy were recently published in the book Applied Theatre with Youth: Education, Engagement, Activism! Kaplan’s chapter is titled “The value of process: Creating theatre with incarcerated youth”, based on her extensive work in applied theatre in New York...

Graduate Alum Elle Hong (MFA in Dance) has a pop-up gallery exhibit opening this weekend, October 9th, in Denver! The exhibit titled “Visceral Vicinities: Altars, Ritual, The In-Between” and curated by Cherish Marquez and Cal Duran, will be hosted at the BRDG Project, 1553 Platte St., starting at 6:00 PM...

Congratulations to PhD student Heather Kelley, who recently received a Graduate and Professional Student Government (GPSG) Travel Grant and Eaton Graduate Student Research Award in support of her paper, “The Ghost at the Top of the Stairs: Apparitions of Trauma and White Supremacy in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ Appropriate .” She'll be...

The Theatre & Dance department’s production of Climate Cabaret: A cabaret of short plays and songs on climate runs from September 24th to October 3rd. In collaboration with Climate Change Theatre Action 2021 in New York City, Artistic Director and M.A. Student Ben Stasny has assembled a team of faculty...

When Deric McNish came to CU Boulder’s PhD program in Theatre & Performance Studies he was given his first teaching position in an Acting for Non-Majors course. His experience in the classroom inspired his dissertation topic, training methods for student-actors with disabilities in college courses, after he discovered how few...

Jashodhara Sen is thrilled to join the School of Theatre and Dance at the University of Florida as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Theatre Studies/Performance Studies. Currently, she is teaching undergraduate theatre history and graduate seminar and theatre history/literature/criticism courses while serving on two committees, Indigenous Relations Working Group and...