Theatre

Three theatre students and two recent theatre alumni performed on October 3 in the Charlotte Symphony production of Spoon River Anthology. The performance took place in Elmwood Cemetery in uptown Charlotte. Written in 1915, with a second collection published in 1926, Edgar Lee Masters’s Spoon River Anthology is a series of free verse monologues spoken […]

The College of Arts + Architecture welcomed new members of our College family into the “circle” on Sunday, August 22, with the 2021 CoA+A Convocation ceremony and after party in the Arts Quad. Dean Brook Muller opened the evening: “I want to express my gratitude to all of you for joining us on this fine […]

Hometown: General Santos City, Philippines Bachelor of Arts in Theatre Performance; BSBA International Business, Minor in Japanese 2024 How did you become interested in theatre? When I was growing up in the Philippines, I was very interested in movies. From Finding Nemo to Iron Man, movies were sandboxes of worlds different from my own, and I wanted to play […]

For the past two weeks, Robinson Hall has been home base for “Tech Theatre: Lights, Sound, Action!,” a camp for middle-school girls offered through a partnership with the Dottie Rose Foundation. The Dottie Rose Foundation (DRF) is a local non-profit that seeks to close the gender gap in the fields of technology and computer science […]

Professional Actor, Children’s Theatre of Charlotte

Assistant Professor of Theatre Kaja Dunn will receive a Kennedy Center Medallion from the National Committee of the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival (KCACTF) in a ceremony on May 22. A project of the Education Division of the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., KCACTF is one of the leading theatre education organizations in the […]

UNC Charlotte student Alex Gomes has been accepted into the 2021 Diversity in Arts Leadership (DIAL) internship program established by Americans for the Arts. Gomes is a theatre and health management systems double major and a Martin Scholar. He is one of just 25 recipients of a 2021 DIAL internship out of 504 applicants and […]

Two UNC Charlotte students who competed at the state and regional levels of the National Association for Teachers of Singing (NATS) Student Auditions have advanced to the national level of the competition in the Music Theater category. Sam Pomerantz (student of Assistant Professor of Voice Sequina DuBose) and Migdalia Ramirez (student of Assistant Professor of […]

Three professors in the Department of Theatre have jointly written a chapter for The Arden Research Handbook of Shakespeare and Contemporary Performance, a new book published this month by Bloomsbury. Andrew Hartley, Kaja Dunn, and Christopher Berry contributed the essay “Pedagogy: Decolonizing Shakespeare on Stage,” which addresses issues of race in the performance of Shakespeare’s […]

Isabel Gonzales, who received a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre in 2019, will play the female lead in the upcoming Children’s Theatre of Charlotte production of Tropical Secrets: Holocaust Refugees in Cuba. Adapted from the book by Margarita Engle, Tropical Secrets (pictured above) explores the World War II-era friendship between Daniel, a Jewish boy seeking […]