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MFA Playwriting Student, Phanésia Pharrel, Has Been Selected For The 2025 Productions In Residence Program At The New Harmony Project
Congratulations to MFA Playwriting Student Phanésia Pharral who will workshop her play WATERFALL, which she began as a first-year playwright at UC San Diego. She will collaborate with OBIE Award-winning director Taylor Reynolds who directed the Off-Broadway production of TAMBO AND BONES by MFA playwright alum Dave Harris which was first produced in the Wagner New Play Festival.
Dance Faculty Bernard Brown Has Been Awarded A Mike Kelley Foundation Infinite Expansion Grant To Further His Work
Dance Faculty Bernard Brown's dance theater project, Sissies: Something Perfect Between Ourselves, prompts a reconsideration of understandings of masculinity, sexuality and intimacy through embodied discourse, text and sonic power.
Performance Studies Faculty Mysia Anderson Receives 2025-26 FCDP Award
Congratulations to Performance Studies Faculty Mysia Anderson who has been selected to receive the 2025-26 Faculty Career Development Program (FCDP) Award!
Directing Faculty Lamar Perry Recipient Of The 2025 Teaching Award
Congratulations to Directing Professor Lamar Perry who is the recipient of the 2025 Teaching Award from the African and African American Studies Research Center for his work creating and teaching Black Theater History and Queer Black Drama at UCSD!
UC San Diego Today: Inside The World of Costume Design
MFA Costume Design Students Stitch Storytelling and Style
MFA 3 Playwright Beth Hyland Wins Prestigious Playwriting Competition
MFA 3 Playwright, Beth Hyland, wins this year's prestigious Alliance/ Kendeda National Playwriting Competition!
Performance Studies Faculty Mysia Anderson Receives UCHRI Grant
Performance Studies Faculty, Mysia Anderson, receives University of California's Humanities Research Institute Grant to develop her book "Black Miami in the Eye of the Storm: Performing Black Sustainability."
Dept Chair Lisa Portes Featured In American Theatre Magazine
Theatre + Dance Department Chair, Lisa Portes, featured in this month's American Theatre Magazine, "Teaching The Moment: A Roundtable With Educators About The Challenges Of The Day And Preparing For What's Ahead."
MFA Playwriting Student Has Been Named An Emory University Playwriting Fellow, 2025-2027
Planésia Pharrel (MFA Playwriting '25) has been named an Emory University Playwriting Fello, 2025-2027!
UCSD Welcomes New Faculty Andrea Caban
Theatre + Dance welcomes our new Associate Teaching Professor - Head of Speech and Accents Andrea Caban!
Scenic Design Student, Eleanor Williams (MFA 3), And Alumni Nominated For 2024 Craig Noel Awards
Scenic Design Student, Eleanor Williams (MFA 3) and Alumni Matthew Herman (MFA '18), Michael Wogulis (MFA '23) and Zoë Trautmann (MFA '23) nominated by San Diego Critics Circle for the 2024 Craig Noel Awards!
Dept Chair Lisa Portes Serves As UCSD Faculty Host For The Kyoto Prize Laureate William Forsythe
Theatre + Dance Department Chair, Lisa Portes, serves as the UCSD Faculty Host for The Kyoto Prize Laureate, world-renowned choreographer, William Forsythe!
T+D Head of Graduate Playwriting Receives 2024-2025 Hermitage Award
T+D Head of Graduate Playwriting, Naomi Iizuka, Receives 2024-2025 Hermitage Award!
Dancing Joyously for Justice with Ana María Álvarez
Read The UC San Diego Article Below!
UCSD Welcomes New Dance Faculty - Bernard Brown
Bernard Brown joins UCSD's Dance Faculty as Assistant Teaching Professor!
2024 Wagner New Play Festival World Premieres Five Works
From a musical about the messy realities of lost innocence to a coming-of-age murder mystery and a comedy on the fickleness of fame, Theatre and Dance graduate student playwrights present bold stories that will have audience members on the edge of their seats.
Professor Mysia Anderson Makes Acting Debut in 'The Girls of Summer'
Congratulations to Professor Mysia Anderson on her acting debut with Miami's M Ensemble in 'The Girls of Summer'
UCSD Makes Playbill's Big 10: Where the Broadway Creative Teams Went To College
UC San Diego makes Playbill's "Big 10: Where the Broadway Creative Teams of the 2022-23 Season Went to College."
MFA Alum Lisa Portes Named Chair of Theatre + Dance Department
Acclaimed Director, and MFA Directing Alum, Lisa Portes named Chair of Theatre and Dance at UC San Diego!
Theatre + Dance Welcomes Directing Professor Lamar Perry
UC San Diego Theatre + Dance Department Welcomes Directing Professor Lamar Perry!
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