Theatre
Summer Spotlight: Theatre Students
Our theatre students are doing great things this summer! Here are a few highlights: Amberlin McCormick spent the first half of the summer hosting three shows for the Carowinds Entertainment Department. She recently left for NYC to study in the six-week Professional Summer Acting program at the Off-Broadway theatre company, The Barrow Group. Aly Allen […]
Theatre Chair Discusses Research on Audible’s PITCH
Dr. Lynne Conner, chair of the Department of Theatre, was featured on Episode 9 of PITCH, an Audible Original podcast covering a range of stories that illustrate why music is central to our cultural present and past. Dr. Conner shared information from her book, Audience Engagement and the Role of Arts Talk in the Digital […]
Play Directed by Theatre Professor Receives Three Jeff Awards
A Chicago production of Cordelia Lynn’s play, Lela & Co., directed by Associate Professor of Theatre Robin Witt, has received three Joseph Jefferson (Jeff) Awards honoring non-Equity Chicago theatre. Lela & Co. was presented July 13 – September 16, 2017, at the Steep Theatre and received glowing reviews from the Chicago press. In December The […]
Theatre Department Chair’s Play To Receive Equity Staged Reading
A play by Dr. Lynne Conner, chair of the Department of Theatre, will receive an Actors’ Equity Association Staged Reading at the Henry Heymann Theatre at the University of Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh, PA, on June 22 and 23. The play, The Mother, is a 2018 Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center National Playwright’s Conference semi-finalist. It explores […]
Theatre Department Announces 2018-19 Season
The Department of Theatre will present four productions in the 2018-19 academic year in a season that matches two European comedies from centuries past with two dramas by contemporary American female playwrights. Archipelago by Caridad Svich September 12-16 Black Box Theater Two UNC Charlotte theatre professors, CarlosAlexis Cruz and Kaja Dunn, take the stage for […]
Three New Novels by Distinguished Professor
Dr. Andrew Hartley is publishing three new novels this spring. An internationally recognized Shakespeare scholar and the Robinson Distinguished Professor of Shakespeare in the Department of Theatre, Hartley also writes adult and young adult science fiction and thriller novels under the names of A.J. Hartley and Andrew Hart. Cold Bath Street is a young adult […]
Production Directed by Theatre Professor Nominated for Jeff Awards
The Steep Theatre (Chicago) production of Lela & Co, directed by UNC Charlotte theatre professor Robin Witt, has been nominated for six Joseph Jefferson (Jeff) Awards, honoring non-Equity Chicago theatre. Lela & Co. was presented July 13 – September 16, 2017. It was the U.S. premiere of the play, by British playwright Cordelia Lynn. The […]
Theatre Professor Directs Reading at Playmakers Rep
Assistant Professor of Theatre Kaja Dunn was a director for the PlayMakers Repertory Company’s “Making Tracks” new play festival. The festival, April 13-15, featured readings of four new plays. Dunn directed the play Noms de Guerre by Jacqueline E. Lawton, a PlayMakers’ company member as well as a professor in the Department of Dramatic Art […]
Theatre Alum Named Sundance Theatre Lab Fellow
Alumna Stacey Rose has been named a 2018 Theatre Lab Fellow by the Sundance Institute. Rose, a playwright, received her Bachelor of Arts in Theatre from UNC Charlotte in 2008 and subsequently completed an MFA in Dramatic Writing at New York University. The Sundance Institute was founded in 1981 by Robert Redford. The Theatre Lab, […]
Department of Theatre to present The Wiz
The Department of Theatre will present The Wiz, Apr. 19-23 at the Belk Theater in Robinson Hall for the Performing Arts. An update of The Wizard of Oz set in an urban landscape The Wiz won seven Tony Awards on Broadway, including Best Musical and Best Score. The production is directed by Associate Professor of […]