Peter J Kuo, a theatre director, producer, writer, and
educator focusing on raising the visibility of marginalized
communities, is the Granada Artist-in-Residence for winter 2025.
He will direct Small Mouth Sounds.
Former Granada Artists-in-Residence David Adam Moore and Victoria
“Vita” Tzykun return to UC Davis in spring 2025 to create and
develop a immersive mixed reality performance experience.
The Department of Theatre and Dance at the University of
California, Davis is dedicated to integrating consent-based
practices into all classroom, studio and production environments.
Professor L.M. Bogad has recently received two major grants
for his project Sinfonia de la Justica/Symphony of
Justice, a performance with farmworkers in the vineyards of
Sonoma County about their struggles around issues of labor and
climate justice and immigrants’ rights. Bogad won a $50,000
Creative Work Fund
Grant, and a $100,000
San Francisco Foundation Creative Corps Grant.
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.
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.
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.
The Department of Theatre and Dance presents Beth
Wohl’s Small Mouth Sounds in winter quarter
2025. Directed by Granada Artist-in-Residence Peter J. Kuo,
the minimalist work of experimental theater casts the
audience as voyeurs in an entertaining adventure that gradually
turns more serious.
The play opens at the Wyatt Pavilion Theatre on Feb. 27 at 7 p.m.
and performs Feb. 28, March 1, 6 and 7 at 7 p.m. and March 1 and
8 at 2 p.m..
