Ecole Jacques Lecoq and Atelier Serge Martin - Paris, France 1978-1981; Alexander Training Institute Teacher Certification 1991; B.S. Dance and Anatomy 1975 University of Wisconsin; Kabuki & Noh Theatre AC Scott, Augusto Boal, Monika Pagneaux Workshops with Jerzy Grotowski's Polish Theatre Lab, Theatre du Soleil, Peter Brook, Cranio-sacral Therapy, Upledger Institute Certification 2000.
Daniel Conway recently designed The Merry Wives of Windsor, directed by Stephen Rayne for The Shakespeare Theatre, (assisted by MFA students Douglas Clarke, Drew Kaufmann, and JD Madsen); Sabrina Fair for Ford's Theatre; Hairspray for Signature Theatre directed by Eric Schaeffer; the premiere of Ken Ludwig's ( Lend Me a Tenor) new farce: The Games Afoot directed by Aaron Posner for The Cleveland Playhouse; and the premiere of a new adaptation of Cyrano by Michael Hollinger (Opus) for The Folger and Arden Theatres.
Professors Sharon Mansur and Ronit Eisenbach awared $20,000 Research Seed Grant
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Experience the ingenious work of UMD’s School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies (TDPS) Masters in Fine Arts Design students as they display their theatrical creativity in costume, lighting and scene design. This year the Exhibition is presented downtown Washington DC at Studio Theatre as well as University of Maryland, College Park.
THET 222, the gateway course into the major, celebrates their semesters' hard work with a presentation in the Main Lobby next to Applause in CSPAC on Monday May 6th at 1:10pm. Inspired by the exercises and explorations of THET 222 creator Professor Walter Dallas: come enjoy a devised piece written by the students, directed by instructor Caroline Clay and choreographed by Professor Adriane Fang.
Tour the State-of-the-art Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center; take a Ballroom Dancesport class or Irish Eire-Robics class; visit the lighting lab and prop shop. For a complete list of Maryland Day events at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, click on program notes above.
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Corinne Jaber, a director and performance member of Peter Brooke's company, will be offering a workshop for TDPS students and presenting about her direction of Comedy of Errors using women performers in Afghanistan for the English department. Corinne performed in A Dybbuk for Two People with Bruce Myers in the 1980s and her work still resonates.
To read about Corinne's work, click here.
