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Alum Isaac Hirotsu Woofter Film Opens In Bay Area

Alum Isaac Hirotsu Woofter (B.A., theatre and dance, ‘00) is the director and writer of the new film Boundwhich will have its Bay area theatrical premiere May 16 – 22 (7pm) at the Alameda Theatre and Cineplex

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Alum Mia Qin Production Assistant On Second Broadway Musical

In 2024 alum Mengyuan “Mia” Qin (B.A., theatre and dance, ‘20) has served as a production assistant on the Broadway musical Maybe Happy Ending which has been nominated for ten 2025 Tony Award nominations including Best Musical. 

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Theatre Chair Creates African American and African Studies Performance Course

book covers for brown girl dreaming and Flint Is Family in Three Acts

Professor Margaret Laurena Kemp, chair, theatre and dance, has created a unique course which develops performance that uses Black literature as its foundation. Offered by the Department of African American and African Studies, The Page, the Lens, the Stage: Making Performance (AAS 152) will be offered in spring quarter 2025. 

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Faculty and Alum Perform Holiday “Nutcracker”

UC Davis Theater and Dance alum Angel Rodriguez (‘12) and faculty member and alum Michele Apriña Leavy recently appeared in the Alameda Civic Ballet’s 20th Anniversary production of The Nutcracker. The production was performed Nov. 23 and 24 at the Castro Valley Center for the Arts in Castro Valley.

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Seasonal Event

Written and Directed by
New Works by Student Playwrights

The Department of Theatre and Dance will open its 2025-2026 season with Written and Directed by, a performance of four new one-act plays authored by undergraduate students.

The production runs Oct. 30, 31 and Nov. 1 at 7 p.m. and Nov. 1 at 2 p.m. in the Wyatt Pavilion Theatre on Old Davis Road.  

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