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Alum Performs Non-Singing Role in “Don Pasquale” at Mondavi Center

Alum Slater Penny (MFA, dramatic arts, ‘19) appears at the Robert and Margrit Mondavi Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts in Gaetano Donizetti’s delightful comic opera Don Pasquale on Nov. 15. Penny appears in a non-singing role in the Manetti Shrem Opera, which was first produced by Festival Napa Valley in summer 2023.

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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. 

Upcoming Events

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Musical Theatre Dance Workshop
"Wilkommen" from "Cabaret"

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Doria E. Charlson, visiting professor of dance, is pleased to announce the first of two fall quarter musical theatre dance workshops. On Oct. 16, students are invited to participate and learn choreography for “Wilkommen,” the opening number to the musical Cabaret.

The workshop will be led by Meredith Joelle Donato, an acclaimed Bay area choreographer and teaching artist. 

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Dr. Mysia Anderson
"Performing Black Sustainability"

Mysia Anderson, assistant professor of Black Performance Theatre, Dept. of Theatre & Dance, UC San Diego, presents a lecture “Performing Black Sustainability” on Oct. 21 at 4 p.m. in the Della Davidson Studio, Nelson Hall. The event is free.

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Manual Cinema Workshop
Fall 2024

The Department of Theatre and Dance presents Sarah Fornace, co-artistic director of Manual Cinema, discussing the company’s work and mission on Nov. 21. Manual Cinema is an Emmy Award-winning performance collective, design studio, and film/video production company which combines handmade shadow puppetry, cinematic techniques, and innovative sound and music to create immersive stories for stage and screen.

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“She Kills Monsters”
Fall 2024

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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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