David Adam Moore is
a highly sought-after leading baritone by major opera houses and
orchestras worldwide, including the Metropolitan Opera, Royal
Opera House Covent Garden, Teatro alla Scala, Lyric Opera of
Chicago, Salzburg Festival and Carnegie Hall. Also notable
for his work as a projection designer, composer, digital media
artist, and stage director, Moore recently made his Lyric Opera
of Chicago stage design debut as projection designer for a new
production of Faust, in which he collaborated with
renowned sculptor/animator John Frame and stage/film designer
Vita Tzykun.
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.
Emile Rappaport (B.A., theatre and dance, ‘19) works in
video production for the Los Angeles based Zach
King Team which specializes in making short, high
concept videos that are shared onto Tik Tok, Instagram, and
YouTube, though Rappaport originally arrived in L.A. to
pursue an acting career.
We are dismayed at the recent racist violence, and murders, in
Atlanta, and across the country, against Asian and Asian-American
people and women in particular. We recognize that this is part of
an ongoing regime of racism and violence and denounce it.
We stand in solidarity with those working against racism in
our communities, workplaces, government, and cultural
environment.
As Artists and Educators in Theatre, Dance, and Performance we
unequivocally condemn the historically rooted and pervasive
racist murders of African Americans and other people of color by
police in the United States and globally. We acknowledge these
most recent examples are not unique. We acknowledge this plague
is systemic and extends beyond the police. We cannot function as
a society, nor as a learning institution, in a context where
people of color cannot walk, jog, drive, talk, or even sleep in
their homes safely without fear of being murdered by the state.
We certainly cannot teach our craft, which is by its very nature
a living and breathing engagement with all people, without
denouncing this violence, and the hateful rhetoric that fuels it.
Alumna Sonya Eddy (B.A., theatre and dance, ‘92), best known to
television audiences for her long-running role as head nurse
Epiphany Johnson in the ABC soap opera General
Hospital, has died. She was 55.
For their final project, Professor Margaret Laurena Kemp,
Department of Theatre and Dance chair, along with the students
and guest artists from the fall quarter course DRA 199:
Theatre for Social Change and Social Justice have created a video
inspired the striking UC graduate students and teaching
assistants.
Kristin Orlando (B.A. theatre and math ‘08) and the New Jersey
Symphony Orchestra won a Mid-Atlantic Emmy Award in 2022
for their long-form video of Mozart: Piano Concerto No.
21. She is Vice President of Operations at the NJSO, and in that
capacity, the film company, the orchestra and Orlando
jointly won the award.
Professor L.M. Bogad has been awarded a grant from the Creative Work Fund. The
grants are given to Greater Bay Area artists collaborating with
nonprofit organizations to develop new works of theater,
traditional art, dance, poetry, arts activism and more.
Branwen Okpako, associate professor of cinema and digital media,
has adapted Helon Habila’s The Chibok Girls
into an experimental documentary, Return to Chibok.
The film re-enacts the journey to visit those left behind after
the shocking kidnapping of 276 girls from Chibok Girls School in
2014. It will be screened at UC Davis on Feb. 27 by the
Center for the Advancement of Multicultural Perspective on Social
Sciences, Arts, and Humanities (CAMPSSAH).
REFUGE- An Immersive Theatrical Installation, a devised
performance project, will be presented by the UC Davis Department
of Theatre and Dance March 2-5 and 9 and 10 in the Main Theater,
Wright Hall.
The Department of Theatre and Dance will present the
winter 2023 edition of Outside the
Lines on March 16-18 in the Hickey Gym.
Performances begin at 7 p.m. and are free.
The Department of Theatre and Dance will present the spring
2023 edition of Outside the Lines on May
18-20 in the Main Theatre, Wright Hall. Performances
begin at 7 p.m.
The program includes performances of new works by graduate and
undergraduate students. The choreography has been developed
under the guidance of Professor David Grenke.
The Department of Theatre and Dance will present Open,
Stay, a new musical, June 7-10 in the Vanderhoef
Studio Theatre, Robert and Margrit Mondavi Center for the
Performing Arts. Performances begin at 7 p.m.
