News

2013 Helen Hayes Awards Recognizes Three Members of UMD’s TDPS for Theatre Excellence

April 09, 2013 School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies

Three of TDPS’s own were lauded at the 29th annual Helen Hayes Awards celebration, one of the country’s most prestigious cultural honors which recognizes and celebrates outstanding achievement in over 80 professional theatres around Washington.

Costume design Professor Helen Huang's work featured in Washington Life Magazine

April 09, 2013 School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies

Professor Helen Huang, assisted by MFA design candidate Kelsey Hunt and Clarice Smith Center's Jen Dasher, design the gorgeous costumes for the Washington Ballet's performance of Hemingway: The Sun Also Rises.

AIGA DC, the local chapter of the professional association for design, interviews Jared Mezzocchi

April 05, 2013 School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies

Visiting Professor Jared Mezzocchi, projection designer in TDPS, answers questions about  challenges, projects, curriculum, etc.

Sharon Mansur at Tinderbox - in costume designed by Aryna Petrashenko

April 05, 2013 School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies

Successful collaboration between costume design and dance gets noticed by other artists in the Boston show at Mobius.

Undergraduate Dance major receives award

April 05, 2013 School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies

Chelsea Brown receives a 2013 Maryland Summer Scholars Award

Mourning the Loss of Jane Henson: Artist, Creative Genius and UMD Alumna

April 04, 2013 School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies

The University of Maryland is saddened by the news that alumna and world-celebrated puppeteer Jane Henson died Tuesday at her home in Connecticut at the age of 78 following a battle with cancer.  Ms. Henson was the widow of puppeteer Jim Henson.

Professor Scot Reese recognized for his mentorship of students

April 04, 2013 School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies

Professor Reese, advisor for the student group Kreativity, is honored by recent awards.

Professor Laurie Frederik Meer receives book award from the Association of Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE)

April 04, 2013 School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies

The Awards Committee, and the Book Award Subcommittee, of ATHE have awarded Dr. Frederik Meer an Honorable Mention for Trumpets in the Mountains: Theater and the Politics of National Culture in Cuba in ATHE’s Outstanding Book Award for 2012

2013 International Initiatives Awards

April 04, 2013 School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies

Congratulations to the 2013-2014 winners of International Initiatives funding for upcoming research projects that will take TDPS faculty and students to various corners of the world.

PEARSONWIDRIG’s Inventive Dance is Honored with Maryland State Arts Council Grant

March 26, 2013 School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies

Sara Pearson and Patrik Widrig, artistic directors of PEARSONWIDRIG DANCETHEATER since 1987, have gained an international following for work that transforms the familiar into the “mysterious, the subversive, and the intimate”.