Theatre

Assistant Professor of Scenic Design Tom Burch has designed the Children’s Theatre of Charlotte production of Bob Marley’s Three Little Birds. The production runs February 8-24 at the McColl Family Theatre. Burch, who has had an extensive career in Chicago, has designed numerous Children’s Theatre productions since coming to UNC Charlotte in 2014, as well […]

Theatre students Jack Murphy and Amberlin McCormick, pictured here in last fall’s production of Twelfth Night, are competing at the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival Region 4 for the Irene Ryan Acting Scholarship. Now in its 50th year, the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival (KCACTF) is a national program to benefit college theatre […]

Stacey Rose (B.A. in Theatre, 2008) has received the inaugural Bonnie and Terry Burman New Play Award, through a national contest at Barrington Stage Company in Massachusetts. Rose, whose play was chosen from nearly 500 submissions, will receive $25,000 and a production of her play at Barrington Stage. Rose’s winning play, America v. 2.1: The […]

Associate Professor of Theatre Robin Witt is directing a production of A Doll’s House, Part 2 at Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre, one of the premiere ensemble theatre companies in the United States. The production runs January 31-March 17 and has been announced by the Chicago Tribune as one of the top 10 Chicago theatre events of […]

Two new dance works on the Charlotte Ballet’s upcoming Innovative Works: Shakespeare Reinvented program have been created in partnership with the Department of Theatre. Robinson Distinguished Professor of Shakespeare Andrew Hartley and Dr. Lynne Conner, chair of the Department of Theatre, have worked closely with choreographers Peter Chu and Stephanie Martinez to explore Shakespeare through […]

Theatre major Deandre Sanders has been invited by the North Carolina Black Repertory Company (NCBRC) to perform in a staged reading of Run No More by New Orleans-based playwright Harold Ellis Clarke. The performance will take place on February 24 at the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art in Winston-Salem, N.C. Sanders will read the role […]

In recognition of the Martin Luther King holiday, the Department of Theatre will present actor Wali Jamal in August Wilson’s How I Learned What I Learned on January 17 and 18. The one-man show, created by August Wilson and Todd Kreidler, chronicles Wilson’s life as a Black artist in the Hill District in Pittsburgh, recounting […]

The Department of Theatre has received the North Carolina Theatre Conference’s 2018 University/College Award. The North Carolina Theatre Conference (NCTC) is a service and advocacy organization that supports the theatre industry in North Carolina. Each year, the NCTC Board of Directors presents awards to companies, schools, and individuals that have exhibited leadership roles in their […]

Costume designs for the Department of Theatre’s 2017 production of Trikster have been accepted for the Design Showcase of the 2019 Costume Society of America Annual Meeting and Symposium, which will be held in Seattle, Washington, April 15-20, 2019. The costumes were designed by Aly Amidei, assistant professor of costume design. Trikster was a circus-inspired […]

Two current theatre students were recently booked for professional commercials that filmed in the Charlotte region. On November 9, Ariana Arocho filmed a commercial in Kannapolis for the North Carolina Education Lottery. Arocho, a junior theatre major originally from Puerto Rico, is represented by JTA, Inc. Talent Agency. Over the summer she also shot a […]