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Professor Margaret Laurena Kemp To Direct Adaptation of Acclaimed Novel

Professor Margaret Laurena Kemp, chair of theatre and dance, will direct Remote Theatre’s forthcoming production which is a mixed-reality piece inspired by the late Obie-award winning playwright Ntozake Shange’s coming of age novel, Liliane. The production, titled Your Mind, Girls, is set to launch in early 2024 in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Alumna Kara Branch Receives Drama Desk Nomination

Alumna Kara Branch (M.F.A., dramatic arts, ‘11) has received a 2023 Drama Desk Award nomination for her costume design for According to the Chorus, presented off-Broadway in New York by the New Light Theater Project.

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Alumnus Hien Huynh Performs at Asian Art Museum

Alumnus Hien Huynh (B.A., theatre and dance, ‘15) appears in Lemongrass & Anise, a performance featuring two generations of a Vietnamese American family. San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum presents the work on May 18 at 6:30 p.m. 

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Professor Emeritus John Iacovelli, Scenic Designer and Educator, Dies at 64

A stalwart of the UC Davis Department of Theatre and Dance, Professor Emeritus John Iacovelli died April 14 at 64. An award-winning artist, he designed numerous theatrical productions in regional theaters across the country while maintaining a distinguished teaching career at UC Davis where he co-created the Master of Fine Arts program in theatre design.

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Open, Stay
Spring 2023

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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.

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Slate Please: Auditioning …The Basics!
A Workshop

The Department of Theatre and Dance will present Slate Please: Auditioning…The Basics! on June 12 in the Arena Theatre, Wright Hall 6:30-8pm. This free workshop will cover some of the following: slating, transitions between audition pieces, consent and boundaries, and audition attire! The workshop will be lead by UC Davis alumni Leah Daugherty and Kevin Adamski.

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