News

TDPS Students Take to the Kennedy Center Stage

May 01, 2013 School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies

Reese and his Musical Theatre Workshop students have been invited to present a Cabaret of Classics from the Broadway Stage at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Millennium Stage on May 5th at 6PM. 

TDPS has an opening for Visiting Assistant/Associate Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies

April 25, 2013 School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies

Open position: Visiting Assistant/Associate Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies in the School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park.

2013 Helen Hayes Awards Recognizes Three Members of UMD’s TDPS for Theatre Excellence

April 09, 2013 School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies

Three of TDPS’s own were lauded at the 29th annual Helen Hayes Awards celebration, one of the country’s most prestigious cultural honors which recognizes and celebrates outstanding achievement in over 80 professional theatres around Washington.

Costume design Professor Helen Huang's work featured in Washington Life Magazine

April 09, 2013 School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies

Professor Helen Huang, assisted by MFA design candidate Kelsey Hunt and Clarice Smith Center's Jen Dasher, design the gorgeous costumes for the Washington Ballet's performance of Hemingway: The Sun Also Rises.

Sharon Mansur at Tinderbox - in costume designed by Aryna Petrashenko

April 05, 2013 School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies

Successful collaboration between costume design and dance gets noticed by other artists in the Boston show at Mobius.

AIGA DC, the local chapter of the professional association for design, interviews Jared Mezzocchi

April 05, 2013 School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies

Visiting Professor Jared Mezzocchi, projection designer in TDPS, answers questions about  challenges, projects, curriculum, etc.

Undergraduate Dance major receives award

April 05, 2013 School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies

Chelsea Brown receives a 2013 Maryland Summer Scholars Award

Professor Scot Reese recognized for his mentorship of students

April 04, 2013 School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies

Professor Reese, advisor for the student group Kreativity, is honored by recent awards.

Professor Laurie Frederik Meer receives book award from the Association of Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE)

April 04, 2013 School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies

The Awards Committee, and the Book Award Subcommittee, of ATHE have awarded Dr. Frederik Meer an Honorable Mention for Trumpets in the Mountains: Theater and the Politics of National Culture in Cuba in ATHE’s Outstanding Book Award for 2012

Mourning the Loss of Jane Henson: Artist, Creative Genius and UMD Alumna

April 04, 2013 School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies

The University of Maryland is saddened by the news that alumna and world-celebrated puppeteer Jane Henson died Tuesday at her home in Connecticut at the age of 78 following a battle with cancer.  Ms. Henson was the widow of puppeteer Jim Henson.