UC San Diego Theatre and Dance

COMING SOON: The 2021 Wagner New Play Festival! The Wagner New Play Festival (WNPF) is an annual festival of new works by MFA playwrights, in collaboration with MFA/PhD directors, undergraduate and graduate actors, designers, stage managers, and dramturges. For the first time, the WNPF will be presented virtually, including four audio plays and one animated work! Listen to our audio trailer for the festival and stay tuned for more info on this exciting project we are so proud to be producing! Check out more info on the WNPF here: https://buff.ly/3olyEFw

Happy #Juneteenth to the UC community! This year we also celebrate that Juneteenth was named an official federal holiday, an important milestone in U.S. history. UC will observe the holiday on June 28 this year & on the federally designated day thereafter. https://bit.ly/3cU4If7

From the desk of UCOP: President Drake announces Juneteenth a new UC holiday. President Drake says: "Celebrated on the 19th of June, Juneteenth, also known as Jubilee Day, Liberation Day and Freedom Day, marks the day in 1865 that enslaved people in Texas learned they were free. This news was delivered two and a half years after President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation became law.... I intend to immediately add this to the University of California’s calendar of holidays." Click the article to read more. https://ucnet.universityofcalifornia.edu//a-message-to-the

Look at this amazing PICK ME LAST trailer from La Jolla Playhouse featuring actors from the MFA class of '21!

Have you see PICK ME LAST, La Jolla Playhouse's 2021 POP tour project, written by Idris Goodwin and directed by LJP's artistic programs manager Jacole Kitchen? This funny and touching play is streaming now for FREE and features 7 of the 8 members of the MFA acting class of 2021. Follow La Jolla Playhouse for more details! https://buff.ly/3wzp3Os Photo courtesy of Cody Sloan.

Looking for a fun, engaging, and active Summer Session dance course? Theatrical Tap (TDMV 11) with instructor Kristin Arcidiacono is still available! Learn more at https://buff.ly/3cNeek3 . Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons

Looking for a fun, engaging, and active Summer Session theatre course?A Glimpse into Acting (TDGE 5) with instructor Jon Reimer (PhD + MFA '21) is still available! Learn more at summersession.ucsd.edu . Photo credit: Jim Carmody, BALM IN GILEAD, 2019 . .... . . . . . . . . #theatre #summer #summerschool #acting #actor #ucsd #ucsandiego #undergrad #performance See more

Things that are negotiable: pretty much most things Things that are non-negotiable: how important it is for you to attend this event! Join faculty Stephen Buescher & current MFA students, Jada Owens & Natalia Quintero-Riestra for this virtual course from the Craft Institute - register online! https://buff.ly/367zI78

8:46 - A Time to Listen The New World Theatre is presenting a reading of selected submissions, including a monologue written by alum Michael Rishawn (MFA Acting 2020) and performed by current MFA Acting student Jordan Smith! Join the LIVE STREAM on Sunday, Nov 1st at 4pm EST by visiting newworldtheatre.org/a-time-to-listen Congratulations Michael & Jordan!

MFA alumnus Danny Burstein discusses his challenges since his bout of Covid-19 and the support he has given to his equally talented wife Rebecca Luker. This Coronavirus is a terrible monster both on a personal level and to our whole theatre & entertainment industry. As is ALS. Positive vibes to Danny & Becca for healthy days ahead. https://buff.ly/31xoc2o

Professor Lisa Porter, head of our Stage Management program, and her colleague Narda E Alcorn, head of the Yale School of Drama’s Stage Management program, penned this essay We Commit to Anti-Racist Stage Management Education.

MFA playwright Dave Harris' Tambo & Bones will be presented at Center Theatre Group in LA in 2021. 'Harris’ examination of American racism past, present and future unfolds while two characters are trapped in a minstrel show. Their escape plan involves making serious money and getting seriously even. A co-production with Playwrights Horizons in New York, Tambo & Bones will come to California after its off-Broadway run. It will be directed by Taylor Reynolds of New York’s Obie-winning Movement Theatre Company' An early version of Tambo & Bones was presented in the Theatre+Dance department's Wagner New Play Festival in 2018.

Campus safety requirements are detailed on this return to learn site: https://buff.ly/2ANV1iv

A reminder you have until July 19th to catch The Fatal Weakness by George Kelly, directed by PhD student Jesse Marchese and lighting design by MFA alumnus Christian DeAngelis for free at the theatre link below. The Fatal Weakness is reviewed by the Wall Street Journal. If the company itself is new to you, I suggest that you start with ‘The Fatal Weakness,’ which had a short Broadway run in 1946 but was never revived anywhere until the Mint exhumed it in 2014... This producti...on, lucidly directed by Jesse Marchese, is exemplary of the Mint’s house style. The cast couldn’t be better, with Cynthia Darlow clinching top honors as a compulsive gossip. The stage, as always, is tiny, but that merely adds to the intimacy of the proceedings, and Vicki R. Davis’s sitting-room set is finely and convincingly detailed. https://buff.ly/31ChslQ https://www.wsj.com//the-fatal-weakness-review-cheating-wi See more

Performance Studies professor Dr. Julie Burelle wins the 2019 CATR Ann Saddlemyer Award for her book Encounters on Contested Lands: Indigenous Performances of Sovereignty and Nationhood in Québec. The Canadian Association for Theatre Research presents the Ann Saddlemyer Award to the best book published in English or French in a given year. Dr Burelle's book also was the 2020 winner of the John W. Frick Book Award presented by the American Theatre & Drama Society.... https://www.atds.org/2020/07/06/2020-atds-award-winners/ https://buff.ly/2BzwFJu