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Chair Gives Talk and Performance at North Carolina Museum of Art

“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.

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Theatre Communications Group Grant Benefits UC Davis Dept. of Theatre and Dance

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. 

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Alum Selected as Redwood National & State Parks Artist-in-Residence

Lauren Godla and Madeline Lawder, two women in mid-air performance

Alumna Lauren Godla (BA, exercise biology major with a minor in theatre and dance, ’12) has been chosen by Redwood Parks Conservancy, California State Parks and the National Park Service as a Redwood National & State Parks Spring 2024 Artist-in-Residence. 

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UC Davis Alumni and Staff Participate in One Act Play Festival in Sacramento

Several UC Davis alumni and staff members are working in various capacities on Sacramento’s Big Idea Theatre’s One-Act Play Festival. The three-week festival begins Jan. 25. 

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Seasonal Event

“She Kills Monsters”
Fall 2024

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.  

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