Theatre

Theatre students Angeli Novio and Chloe Shade received awards at the Region IV Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival (KCACTF)! Shade is pursuing a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre with a Concentration in Directing, and Novio is pursuing a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre with a Concentration in Tech and Design. KCACTF is a national […]

The College of Arts + Architecture (CoA+A) will honor five Distinguished Alumni on Friday, March 18, in the eighth annual celebration of alumni achievement. The award ceremony will take place at 11:30 am in Robinson Hall for the Performing Arts and will be open to the public. The Distinguished Alumni Awards were created by the […]

Shakespeare in Action, an interdisciplinary initiative housed in the College of Arts + Architecture and guided by faculty in the Theatre and English departments, has organized a semester-long case study of Shakespeare’s play, The Merchant of Venice. Beginning with a lecture on February 2 by Robinson Distinguished Professor of Shakespeare Studies Andrew Hartley, Shakespeare and […]

Assistant Professor of Costume Design Aly Amidei has adapted the novella Carmilla as an audio play that the Chicago-based Lifeline Theatre Company will begin streaming on October 30. Written in 1871-72 by the Irish author J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla is an early example of vampire fiction and was an inspiration for Bram Stoker’s 1897 […]

Three theatre students and two recent theatre alumni performed on October 3 in the Charlotte Symphony production of Spoon River Anthology. The performance took place in Elmwood Cemetery in uptown Charlotte. Written in 1915, with a second collection published in 1926, Edgar Lee Masters’s Spoon River Anthology is a series of free verse monologues spoken […]

The College of Arts + Architecture welcomed new members of our College family into the “circle” on Sunday, August 22, with the 2021 CoA+A Convocation ceremony and after party in the Arts Quad. Dean Brook Muller opened the evening: “I want to express my gratitude to all of you for joining us on this fine […]

For the past two weeks, Robinson Hall has been home base for “Tech Theatre: Lights, Sound, Action!,” a camp for middle-school girls offered through a partnership with the Dottie Rose Foundation. The Dottie Rose Foundation (DRF) is a local non-profit that seeks to close the gender gap in the fields of technology and computer science […]

Professional Actor, Children’s Theatre of Charlotte

Assistant Professor of Theatre Kaja Dunn will receive a Kennedy Center Medallion from the National Committee of the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival (KCACTF) in a ceremony on May 22. A project of the Education Division of the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., KCACTF is one of the leading theatre education organizations in the […]

UNC Charlotte student Alex Gomes has been accepted into the 2021 Diversity in Arts Leadership (DIAL) internship program established by Americans for the Arts. Gomes is a theatre and health management systems double major and a Martin Scholar. He is one of just 25 recipients of a 2021 DIAL internship out of 504 applicants and […]