Dance Principal Lecturer Alvin Mayes Receives Board of Regents Faculty Award
Mayes is recognized as a scholar, educator, mentor and leader in the local dance community and beyond.
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.
TDPS Production Manager Cary Gillett publishes The Production Manager's Toolkit: Successful Production Management in Theatre and Performing Arts with co-author Jay Sheehan.
This summer, dance faculty Sara Pearson and Patrik Widrig traveled to Senegal to meet with dancer, choreographer, and educator Germaine Acogny and her dance school, École des Sables (School of the Sands) in Toubab Dialaw outside of Dakar.
Faculty and students recently represented TDPS at the 30th Anniversary Black Theatre Network Conference and the 30th Anniversary of Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) Conference in Chicago.
TDPS alumnus Kenneth Lewis ('81) is featured in this summer's Terp Magazine for his work as chief of the division of performing arts and production manager at Wolf Trap National Park.
Nine ARHU doctoral students receive 2016-17 Ann G. Wylie Dissertation Fellowships.
Congratulations to TDPS playwriting professor Jennifer Barclay on being awarded the 2016 Smith Prize for Political Theater.
Congratulations to Dance faculty instructor Alvin Mayes on being honored with the Provost’s Excellence in Teaching Award for Professional Track Faculty.
Congratulations to our new Dorothy G. Madden Professor of Dance, Sara Pearson.
Congratulations to MFA Dance alum Kwame Shaka Opare on being awarded the Brooklyn Academy of Music's (BAM) Chuck Davis Emerging Choreographer Fellowship this past weekend at DanceAfrica 2016!
Congratulations toTDPS alum Vaughn Midder on winning a Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Support Actor in a Musical (Helen Production), for his work in "Avenue Q" with Constellation Theatre Company!!!