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Theatre Chair Creates African American and African Studies Performance Course

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Professor Margaret Laurena Kemp, chair, theatre and dance, has created a unique course which develops performance that uses black literature as its foundation. Offered by the Department of African American and African Studies, The Page, the Lens, the Stage: Making Performance (AAS 152) will be offered in spring quarter 2025. 

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Professor L.M. Bogad Awarded a Creative Fellowship from the Wolfsonian Museum

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Professor L.M. Bogad, theatre and dance and performance studies PhD program, has been awarded a Creative Fellowship from the Wolfsonian Museum at Florida International University for research in order to adapt his screenplay Orwell’s War into a play. 

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Professor L.M. Bogad Awarded a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Residency

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Professor L.M. Bogad, theatre and dance and performance studies PhD program, has been awarded a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Residency for summer 2025.

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Faculty and Alum Perform Holiday “Nutcracker”

UC Davis Theater and Dance alum Angel Rodriguez (‘12) and faculty member and alum Michele Apriña Leavy recently appeared in the Alameda Civic Ballet’s 20th Anniversary production of The Nutcracker. The production was performed Nov. 23 and 24 at the Castro Valley Center for the Arts in Castro Valley.

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Rules of Play
Spring Dance Concert

The Department of Theatre and Dance will present Rules of Play, the spring 2025 dance concert, May 15, 16, 22 and 23 at 7 p.m. and May 17and 24 at 2 p.m. in the Main Theatre, Wright Hall. 

Featuring over 30 dancers, the program is curated by Doria E. Charlson, visiting professor of theatre and dance, and showcases new works developed and performed by undergraduate students. 

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