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Tom Burmester
Performance Studies

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Dissertation: “Well Played: Radical Fun and the Game of Theatre”

Executive Director, Woodland Opera House

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Alumnus Tom Burmester Chosen as Executive Director of Historic Woodland Opera House

Tom Burmester

Alumnus Tom Burmester (B.A., dramatic arts, ’01; PhD, performance studies, ‘22) has been named as the new executive director of The Historic Woodland Opera House (WOH). He replaces the outgoing director Angela Baltezore who will retire in June.

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Ground and Field Theatre Festival 2019

Mindy Cooper Tom Burmester Danika Sudik Lisa Quoresimo

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The third annual Ground and Field Theatre Festival (GFTF), ‘Play on the Brink,’ spotlights new plays and musicals written by local, national and international playwrights and composers, including Broadway veterans. The main performances take place beginning Sept. 26 on the UC Davis campus and in community venues. All are free.

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Auditions for Ground and Field Theatre Festival 2018
Della Davidson Performance Studio, Nelson Hall

Mindy Cooper Tom Burmester Danika Sudik Lisa Quoresimo

The UC Davis Theatre and Dance Department and the Theatre and Dance Ensemble are holding auditions for the second annual Ground and Field Theatre Festival. An exciting partnership formed to create and develop new plays and musicals for a sustainable future, the creative team is looking for actors and technicians to participate in the 2018 festival. 

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Ground and Field Theatre Festival 2017
Wyatt Pavilion Theatre

Mindy Cooper Tom Burmester Danika Sudik Lisa Quoresimo

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Directors from New York and Los Angeles, playwrights from across the nation, world-class scholars and emerging theatre artists have come together for the inaugural season of the Ground & Field Theatre Festival (GFTF), an exciting partnership formed to create and develop new plays and musicals.

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Gospel According to First Squad
Arena Theatre, Wright Hall

Danika Sudik Tom Burmester

What story would you die to defend?  What tale would you spin to justify dying for nothing? Tom Burmester’s Gospel According to First Squad tells the story of men at war in a distant land, and the stories they tell to get themselves home.  

This bold, contemporary work by Davis native Tom Burmester is given its regional premiere by UC Davis Department of Theatre and Dance and Theatre and Dance Ensemble in the Arena Theatre of Wright Hall on September 29-October 1 and October 6-8 at 7:00 p.m. and October 1 and 8 at 2:00 p.m. 

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