News

Women's Playwrights Initiative is Priority for Big Ten

November 07, 2015 School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies

The Big Ten Theatre Consortium is commissioning a series of plays by outstanding American female playwrights.

Meghan Abadoo, MFA Dance 2016, selected for Graduate Teaching Fellows Program

November 04, 2015 School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies

Congratulations to Meghan Abadoo (MFA Dance 2016) who was selected into UMD’s prestigious Graduate Teaching Fellows Program.  She was the only non-PhD student to be accepted.

Undergraduate theatre major Korinn Walfall receives Dean's Senior Scholar Award

October 30, 2015 School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies

Congratulations to Korinn Walfall, selected as one of the Dean's Senior Scholars for 2015.

Artist-in-Residence Christopher K. Morgan wins Outstanding Artist Award

October 30, 2015 School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies

Christopher K. Morgan received the Outstanding Artist Award from Montgomery County Executive’s Awards for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities.

Dance alumni reunite at the ADTA 50th Annual Conference

October 28, 2015 School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies

UMD Dance Alumni attend the 50th Annual Conference of the American Dance Therapy Association

Lindsey Snyder (PhD 2009) hired by the American Shakespeare Center in Virginia

October 27, 2015 School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies

Congratulations to Lindsey Snyder (PhD 2009) who has just been hired by the American Shakespeare Center in Stanton, VA under a grant from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation

Professor Frank Hildy receives prestigious Globe Senior Research Fellowship

October 26, 2015 School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies

Professor Franklin J. Hildy, University of Maryland, recognized for extraordinary contributions to Shakespeare and theatre with Senior Research Fellowship from Shakespeare’s Globe, London.

School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies is accepting applications for 2 faculty positions

October 26, 2015 School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies

TDPS is accepting applications for Associate/Full Professor of Dance and Assistant Professor of Voice and Acting

Dr. Andrew White (PhD 2006) gets book published with Cambridge University Press (2016)

October 13, 2015 School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies

Our congratulations to Andy White (PhD 2006) who has just published his book Performing Orthodox Ritual in Byzantium, with Cambridge University Press (2016)!

Staged Reading of Good Kids featuring TDPS students

October 13, 2015 School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies

Scot Reese directs the staged reading of Good Kids in the Women's Voices Theater Festival at the Kennedy Center