Theatre

Jill Bloede, part-time acting professor in the Department of Theatre, has won the Best Actress award in Creative Loafing’s “Best of Charlotte” edition. The citation reads: “Jill Bloede takes the laurels for her astonishing performance as Lady Bracknell in The Importance of Being Earnest. Bloede was such a majestic tugboat from the moment she entered […]

The UNC Charlotte Department of Theatre presents The Aliens, by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Annie Baker, in an innovative outdoor production October 14 -23. One of four plays that Baker has set in the fictional town of Shirley, Vermont, The Aliens peers in on the conversations and interactions of three young men in the alleyway behind […]

Nina, a play by Department of Theatre Chair Lynne Conner, has completed a successful run at the Theatre Project in Brunswick, Maine, opening the company’s 45th anniversary season. Nina focuses on the lives of two concentration camp survivors whose 50-year friendship is being challenged by the death of a daughter. Set in the mid-1980s, the […]

Professor of Theatre Bruce Auerbach is the guest lighting designer for a current production of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the University of South Carolina (USC). The production is presented by the USC Department of Theatre and Dance and runs September 30-October 8. Directed by Robert Richmond, the artistic director of the theatre program, […]

A production designed by Assistant Professor of Scenic Design Tom Burch has been selected for the International Performing Arts for Youth Showcase, to be held in Madison WI in January 2017. The showcase will present 16 shows from seven countries. The design, for Journey to Oz, was created for a production presented in February 2016 […]

Assistant Professor of Dramaturgy Jeanmarie Higgins will present “The Glas Nocturne: Theatre at Home as Sustainable Production Practice” in the curated paper panel, (On the Way) Home: TRANSience in Performance, Performing TRANSience, at the American Society for Theatre Research conference in Minneapolis, MN, November 3-6. Dr. Higgins’s presentation concerns the 2016 production of Seattle based […]

A new book by Professor of Theatre and Film Mark Pizzato was published earlier this year by Praeger, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC. Beast-People Onscreen and in Your Brain: The Evolution of Animal-Humans from Prehistoric Cave Art to Modern Movies draws together the diverse disciplines of anthropology, neuroscience, psychology, aesthetics, and performance studies to examine […]

Assistant Professor of Theatre CarlosAlexis Cruz will present at the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) annual conference, which will be held in Chicago, August 11-14. Cruz will present the paper, “The Importance of Having a Stage Movement Practitioner: How a theatre program strengthens and benefits from stage movement courses and the teachers that […]

The Department of Theatre welcomes Dr. Lynne Conner as its new chair. Dr. Conner comes to UNC Charlotte from Colby College, where she served as a professor and former chair of the Theatre and Dance Department. Dr. Conner is a theater and dance historian, cultural policy theorist, and playwright. Her publications include the books Audience […]

Assistant Professor of Theatre Robin Witt has received praise for direction of Wastwater at Chicago’s Steep Theatre. The play, by contemporary British playwright Simon Stephens, runs through August 13. In a review on July 19, the Chicago Tribune called Witt’s direction “fearless,” while the Chicago Sun Times praised her “tightly wired direction” and the “superb” […]