Former Granada Artists-in-Residence David Adam Moore and Victoria
“Vita” Tzykun return to UC Davis in spring 2025 to create and
develop a immersive mixed reality performance experience.
The Department of Theatre and Dance at the University of
California, Davis is dedicated to integrating consent-based
practices into all classroom, studio and production environments.
Professor L.M. Bogad has recently received two major grants
for his project Sinfonia de la Justica/Symphony of
Justice, a performance with farmworkers in the vineyards of
Sonoma County about their struggles around issues of labor and
climate justice and immigrants’ rights. Bogad won a $50,000
Creative Work Fund
Grant, and a $100,000
San Francisco Foundation Creative Corps Grant.
The 180 Series of courses provide exciting practical instruction
and participation in all aspects of theatrical and dance
production. Whether you are exploring these courses as a
Theatre & Dance Major, Minor, or are simply an interested
non-affiliated student, you will find passionate people working
to create art and tell stories on stage. We invite you to
join us at this link.
Professor Jon Rossini and Continuing Lecturer and Alumna Michele
Apriña Leavy in Los Angeles this weekend for the Latinx Theater
Commons’ Encuentro 2024. Rossini serves as a scholarly advisor
while Leavy is the LTC’s Steering Committee.
Alum Slater Penny (MFA, dramatic arts, ‘19) appears at the Robert
and Margrit Mondavi Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts
in Gaetano Donizetti’s delightful comic opera Don
Pasquale on Nov. 15. Penny appears in a non-singing
role in the Manetti Shrem Opera, which was first produced by
Festival Napa Valley in summer 2023.
“Take My Hand,” a talk and performance with
Professor Margaret Laurena Kemp, theatre and dance chair,
will be given on June 13 at the North Carolina Museum of Art at
6pm. Kemp leads the audience through an embodied exploration
of her creative process. The presentation features an original
score.
The UC Davis Department of Theatre and Dance is among the
recipients of Theatre Communications Group’s program
“Plays for the People: In the Stacks.” With funding from
the Mellon Foundation, TCG has provided $25,000 total in book
credits to 50 recipient organizations in an effort to help them
expand and diversify their drama collections.
The Department of Theatre and Dance presents Sarah Fornace,
co-artistic director of Manual Cinema, discussing the
company’s work and mission on Nov. 21. Manual Cinema is an
Emmy Award-winning performance collective, design studio, and
film/video production company which combines handmade shadow
puppetry, cinematic techniques, and innovative sound and music to
create immersive stories for stage and screen.
Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, Davis, CA
The Department of Theatre and Dance presents She Kills
Monsters, which explores issues of grief
and bullying through a world of fantasy role-playing games!
Alum Lucas Hatton (M.F.A., dramatic arts, ‘17) returns to direct
the production.
The production performs Nov. 21, 22, 23 and Dec. 5 and 6 at
7 p.m. and Nov. 23 and Dec. 7 at 2 p.m. in the Main Theatre,
Wright Hall.
The Department of Theatre and Dance is holding auditions on Dec.
2 and 3 for the 2025 winter quarter production of Beth
Wohl’s Small Mouth Sounds. Directed by Granada
Artist-in-Residence Peter J. Kuo, the play centers on six
runaways from city life who embark on a silent rustic
retreat…but their vows of silence collide with the achingly
human need to connect.
