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    TDPS Welcomes New Faculty

    These artist-scholars join the TDPS faculty in Fall 2021.

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    September 22, 2021 School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies

    TDPS Welcomes New Faculty to the Maya Brin Institute for New Performance

    These artist-scholars join the TDPS faculty to expand the school’s innovative research and teaching.
    August 09, 2021 School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, School of Music, The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center

    Experience the Arts Together at The Clarice

    The performing arts at Maryland announce their Fall 2021 season.
    May 24, 2021 School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies

    Former TDPS Director Leigh Wilson Smiley to Retire

    During her tenure, Leigh Wilson Smiley championed collaboration and equity and sought to amplify student voices at the School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies.
    May 24, 2021 School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, Linguistics, American Studies

    Three ARHU Faculty Members Named Graduate Faculty Mentors of the Year

    Melissa Blanco Borelli of the School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, Naomi Feldman of the Department of Linguistics and Nancy Raquel Mirabal of the Department of American Studies are recognized.
    May 21, 2021 School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, College of Arts and Humanities

    Leading With Empathy On and Off Stage

    Senior Maria De Barros ’21 will move to New York City to pursue a career in stage management.
    April 27, 2021 School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, College of Arts and Humanities

    Podcasting the Humanities

    Graduate students reach a wider audience through podcasts related to the arts and humanities.
    April 21, 2021 School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, College of Arts and Humanities

    How a Multimedia Whiz Seized Digital Theater’s Big Moment

    The projection designer Jared Mezzocchi has become a go-to guy for ambitious virtual productions. Next up: Starring in his own haunted house play.
    March 09, 2021 School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, College of Arts and Humanities

    Lighting the Digital Stage

    With storytelling occuring in a virtual Zoom room instead of a shared theater space, UMD lighting designers get creative to convey emotion to audiences watching from their homes.
    February 19, 2021 School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies

    An Old Scandal-Turned-Play Gets New Tech Treatment

    Virtual production of ‘Machinal’ incorporates video projections, lighting innovations.

    TDPS in the News

    Maryland Today October 21, 2021

    ‘Exiled’ From the Stage

    Ph.D. Student’s Experimental Theater Project to Get Audiences Moving
    Stories Beneath the Shell October 14, 2021

    UMD Performances Exploring the Possibilities of Dance

    Two of the University of Maryland’s dance MFA students will be introducing new ways of dance during their in-person Fall MFA Dance Thesis Concert from Oct. 15-17.

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    Maryland Today

    ‘Exiled’ From the Stage

    October 21, 2021 School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, College of Arts and Humanities

    Ph.D. Student’s Experimental Theater Project to Get Audiences Moving
    Stories Beneath the Shell

    UMD Performances Exploring the Possibilities of Dance

    October 14, 2021 School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, College of Arts and Humanities

    Two of the University of Maryland’s dance MFA students will be introducing new ways of dance during their in-person Fall MFA Dance Thesis Concert from Oct. 15-17.

    TDPS Welcomes New Faculty

    October 11, 2021 School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies

    These artist-scholars join the TDPS faculty in Fall 2021.

    TDPS Welcomes New Faculty to the Maya Brin Institute for New Performance

    September 22, 2021 School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies

    These artist-scholars join the TDPS faculty to expand the school’s innovative research and teaching.

    ARHU 2021 Service Award Winners Announced

    September 22, 2021 School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, Classics, History, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, College of Arts and Humanities

    Six exceptional members of the ARHU community received an annual service award.
    American Theatre Magazine

    All the Screen’s a Stage: A Transmedia Manifesto

    September 22, 2021 School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies

    As theatremakers celebrate the return to in-person, in-venue performances, it’s imperative to keep open the doors offered by digital theatre and celebrate its place alongside the stage.

    2021–22 New Faculty Appointments

    September 19, 2021 College of Arts and Humanities, The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, Communication, American Studies, History, Art

    The college welcomes a new faculty cohort.

    Arts for All Launches With Expanded NextNOW Fest

    September 14, 2021 The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, Art, David C. Driskell Center for the Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora, School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies

    Campus initiative to integrate the arts, science and technology.
    The Diamondback

    UMD Launches Initiative to Integrate Arts With Science and Technology

    September 13, 2021 The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies

    Arts for All initiative featured in the Diamondback.

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