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2014-2015 New Faculty Appointments

September 03, 2014 American Studies, College of Arts and Humanities, Communication, English, History, Linguistics, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, School of Music, School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

The College of Arts and Humanities welcomes new faculty cohort to UMD.

ARHU Faculty Earn Promotions And Tenure

August 29, 2014 College of Arts and Humanities, Communication, English, History, Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Program and Center for Jewish Studies, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, School of Music, School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies

Fourteen faculty members from the College of Arts and Humanities awarded tenured positions and promotions to full professor.

Big Ten Theatre Consortium announces the second year of New Play Initiative

August 19, 2014 School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies

A series of plays commissioned from outstanding American female playwrights featuring larges casts and excellent age-appropriate roles for young women.

The Kennedy Center, in collaboration with the University of Maryland, presents In His Own Words: A Tribute to Walter Dean Myers

August 19, 2014 School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies

The Kennedy Center, in collaboration with the University of Maryland, presents a performance combining music, dance, and spoken word with text from Myers's books, including We Are America and Monster, and his memoir Bad Boy.

Patrik Widrig and Sara Pearson provide creative opportunities for TDPS students

July 17, 2014 School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies

Governor's Island, New York, and St. Petersburg, Russia, are 2 of the destinations where TDPS students performed with PEARSONWIDRIG DANCETHEATER

Khalid Long, PhD candidate, gets published in the inaugural issue of Continuum journal

July 03, 2014 School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies

Khalid Yaya Long’s article, “Mourning, Orature, and Memory: Cultural Performativity as Historiography in Pearl Cleage’s A Song for Coretta” was published in the inaugural issue of the peer-reviewed online journal Continuum.Click here to read the article

Join Sharon Mansur and Nick Bryson in sweeping "off the sawdust after Dance Place gets a makeover"

June 12, 2014 School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies

"This transformative experience is offered as a rite of passage for this familiar yet new environment. " Click here for tickets and information.

TDPS Spring 2014 Graduation - BA Dance, BA Theatre, MFA Dance, MFA Theatre Design, PhD Theatre & Performance Studies

June 05, 2014 School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies

Learn more about the accomplishments and the promising futures of the Spring 2014 TDPS graduates.Read the empowering speeches of two undergraduate students.

Think BIG

June 05, 2014 School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies

On July 1, 2014, the University of Maryland will officially join the Big Ten Conference. To help commemorate this historic moment, the University invites everyone to celebrate. Go to the Big Ten web page by clicking here.http://www.umd.edu/THINKB1G/

Dan Conway's design of The Tempest reviewed in NY Times and Boston Globe

June 03, 2014 School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies

In its frolicsome use of traditional magic acts, this freewheeling “Tempest” awakens in the audience a similar sense of pleasurable, almost childlike wonder.   NY Times