Theatre

Hometown: Rolesville, NC Bachelor in Communication Studies, concentration in Rhetoric, Culture and Social Change and a Minor in Theatre 2026 How did you first get interested in theatre?My freshman year of high school, I signed up for a theatre class on a whim, and I never looked back. During my first show, “The Crucible”, I […]

Professors Sequina DuBose and Laura Waringer have received a Cultural Vision Grant from the Arts & Science Council in support of their project to create a new musical theatre work based on the story of the 1929 strike at the Loray Mill in Gastonia. The $20,000 grant was announced on December 6. Cultural Vision Grants […]

As College of Arts + Architecture student office assistants, Lysa Fakir and Rayden Leeder have brought friendliness and professionalism to the CoA+A main office for the past two academic years. They are both graduating, and we will miss them! Lysa is receiving a BFA in Art with a concentration in illustration and a Minor in […]

Several faculty and alumni in the College of Arts + Architecture have been recognized in the 2023 “Best in the Nest” Awards presented by Charlotte independent weekly newspaper Queen City Nerve. Covering a wide range of categories, the annual awards include both Critics’ and Readers’ Picks. In the “City Life” Category, professors Heather Freeman and […]

The College of Arts + Architecture had nine students compete in the recent Musical Theatre Student Auditions for the North Carolina Chapter of the National Association of Teachers of Signing (NATS), which took place on November 10 and 11 at Meredith College in Raleigh. Founded in 1944, the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) […]

The Nouveau Sud Project, the urban circus initiative founded by Associate Professor of Theatre CarlosAlexis Cruz, is a recipient of a 2023 Knight Art + Tech Expansion Fund from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. The Knight Foundation created the Knight Art + Tech Expansion Fund “to support the long-term sustainability of Charlotte’s […]

Hometown: Matthews, NC BA in Theatre and a minor in Sociology 2024 How did you first get interested in theatre?My sixth grade class did a production of The Wizard of Oz. I originally auditioned to be in the musical but unfortunately I was cut. I wanted to be a part of the musical in any way […]

On November 2, the Department of Theatre debuts The Caligari Project, bringing puppets to the Black Box Theater for the department’s most distinctive production of the year, written, designed, and directed by Tom Burch. It has been more than five years since Burch, associate professor of scenic design, taught a puppetry class in the Department […]

Hometown: Charlotte, NC BA in Theater Performance, BA in Applied Dance, and a Musical Theater Certificate 2025 How did you first get interested in theatre and dance?I started dancing at my moms dance company when I was 4 or 5 years, old and I began doing theatre in the 7th grade! What kind of career do […]

Associate Professor of Theatre CarlosAlexis Cruz is the new president of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE), the national professional membership organization for college and university theatre departments and administrators, educators, graduate students, and theatre practitioners. Cruz assumed leadership of the organization earlier this month at the 2023 ATHE Conference in Austin, Texas. […]