Faculty Profile

Tom Burmester
Performance Studies

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

Executive Director, Woodland Opera House

tburmester[remove-this-and-replace-with-at]ucdavis.edu
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Ground and Field Theatre Festival 2019

Mindy Cooper Tom Burmester Danika Sudik Lisa Quoresimo

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.

This year GFTF offers a preview of the new works and an opportunity to meet the creative team at the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art on September 12 at 7 p.m.

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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.