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‘Emma’: Regency With a Twist

Contemporary Music, diverse cast, inventive costumes mark TDPS’ modern adaptation of Jane Austen’s classic tale.

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May 24, 2024 School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, College of Arts and Humanities

TDPS Faculty and Alums Win 2024 Helen Hayes Awards

Professor Misha Kachman and alums Frank Labovitz, Alberto Segarra, Kelly Colburn and Dylan Uremovich were recognized for their achievements in DMV theater.
May 02, 2024 School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, College of Arts and Humanities

TDPS Faculty Nominated for 2024 Tony Awards

Faculty members Amith Chandrashaker and Brian MacDevitt were nominated for the prestigious honor.

May 01, 2024 School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, College of Arts and Humanities

Amith Chandrashaker and Jared Mezzocchi Nominated for Lucille Lortel Awards

The prestigious awards recognize excellence in New York Off-Broadway theater.
March 04, 2024 School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, College of Arts and Humanities

At UMD, Cross-Gender-Cast ‘Men on Boats’ Sail Wonderfully into the New West

DC Theater Arts reviews TDPS' production of "Men on Boats."
February 02, 2024 School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, College of Arts and Humanities

Shards Time Resonance Risk

Associate Professor Jared Mezzocchi in conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paula Vogel.
January 25, 2024 School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, College of Arts and Humanities

TDPS in the 2024 Helen Hayes Award Nominations

TDPS alumni, faculty and guest artists are among this year’s nominees.
January 23, 2024 Russian, School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

2024 Maya Brin Artist-in-Residence Mikhail Durnenkov

The Maya Brin Residency Program is proud to announce Artist-in-Residence, Mikhail Durnenkov, who will be a visiting faculty member in the SLLC and the TDPS for the Spring 2024 semester.
December 07, 2023 School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies

Choreographer Ama Law ’08 MFA ’19 Brings Signature Street Style Back to UMD

The dance artist-in-residence is teaching and collaborating with UMD students.

November 17, 2023 School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies

Crystal Davis is ‘Biased About Bias’

The associate professor of dance says that transparency around bias will ultimately create more welcoming and inclusive dance classrooms.

TDPS in the News

May 24, 2024

TDPS Faculty and Alums Win 2024 Helen Hayes Awards

Professor Misha Kachman and alums Frank Labovitz, Alberto Segarra, Kelly Colburn and Dylan Uremovich were recognized for their achievements in DMV theater.
May 02, 2024

TDPS Faculty Nominated for 2024 Tony Awards

Faculty members Amith Chandrashaker and Brian MacDevitt were nominated for the prestigious honor.

May 01, 2024

Amith Chandrashaker and Jared Mezzocchi Nominated for Lucille Lortel Awards

The prestigious awards recognize excellence in New York Off-Broadway theater.

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Maryland Today

‘Exiled’ From the Stage

October 21, 2021 School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, College of Arts and Humanities

Ph.D. Student’s Experimental Theater Project to Get Audiences Moving
Stories Beneath the Shell

UMD Performances Exploring the Possibilities of Dance

October 14, 2021 School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, College of Arts and Humanities

Two of the University of Maryland’s dance MFA students will be introducing new ways of dance during their in-person Fall MFA Dance Thesis Concert from Oct. 15-17.

TDPS Welcomes New Faculty

October 11, 2021 School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies

These artist-scholars join the TDPS faculty in Fall 2021.

TDPS Welcomes New Faculty to the Maya Brin Institute for New Performance

September 22, 2021 School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies

These artist-scholars join the TDPS faculty to expand the school’s innovative research and teaching.

ARHU 2021 Service Award Winners Announced

September 22, 2021 School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, Classics, History, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, College of Arts and Humanities

Six exceptional members of the ARHU community received an annual service award.
American Theatre Magazine

All the Screen’s a Stage: A Transmedia Manifesto

September 22, 2021 School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies

As theatremakers celebrate the return to in-person, in-venue performances, it’s imperative to keep open the doors offered by digital theatre and celebrate its place alongside the stage.

2021–22 New Faculty Appointments

September 19, 2021 College of Arts and Humanities, The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, Communication, American Studies, History, Art

The college welcomes a new faculty cohort.

Arts for All Launches With Expanded NextNOW Fest

September 14, 2021 The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, Art, David C. Driskell Center for the Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora, School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies

Campus initiative to integrate the arts, science and technology.
The Diamondback

UMD Launches Initiative to Integrate Arts With Science and Technology

September 13, 2021 The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies

Arts for All initiative featured in the Diamondback.

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