TDPS in the 2025 Helen Hayes Award Nominations
Congrats to the TDPS alumni, faculty and guest artist nominees!
Stay up-to-date on the creative, collaborative, innovative and entrepreneurial work that is going on at the School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies.
Professor Helen Huang was featured in two videos produced by Oregon Shakespeare Festival for her remarkable costume design work for The Winter's Tale.
On the weekend of October 7th, MFA Dance candidates Colette Krogol and Matt Reeves will present their thesis concert, Waking Darkness. Waiting Light.
Second year TDPS MFA Design candidates Tyler Herald, Jeannette Christensen, and Dylan Uremovich will all have their designs featured in TDPS’s production of The Call, opening this weekend in the Kay Theatre at The Clarice.
Check out these photographs from our fabulous Scholarship Dinner on Sunday, September 18th.
After a lifetime of encouraging young adults to pursue their passions instead of searching for the most lucrative job, UMD alumn Randy Lord '77 and his husband, Steve Fessler, hope to facilitate future artists' ability to "follow their goosebumps."
The UMD School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies is hiring for the position of Assistant to Director/Coordinator of Graduate Services. Check out the job posting here: https://ejobs.umd.edu/postings/45969.
This past summer, TDPS Dance Artist-in-Residence Christopher K. Morgan served his eleventh year as Program Director for Dance Omi International Dance Collective.
Over the summer, TDPS Design Professor Jared Mezzocchi led his first season as the Artistic Director of summer youth theater Andy’s Summer Playhouse in Wilton, NH.
Six exceptional faculty, staff and students received an annual ARHU service award.
In July 2016, TDPS Dance Professors Karen Bradley and Miriam Phillips attended and presented at Your Brain on Art: International Conference on Mobile Brain-Body Imaging and the Neuroscience of Art, Innovation and Creativity in Cancún, Mexico.