2020-2021 Theatre & Dance Season
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we have taken our 2020-2021 season online.
In the fall, we created two rounds of audio plays in a collection titled Connected in the Deep. Performances of seven plays were recorded and released as podcasts. We also welcomed guest director Jackie Alexander, Artistic Director of the NC Black Repertory Company. Jackie mentored and directed eight students, who wrote and performed their own monologues in Young Voices of Protest. You can watch their production here.
We have more exciting virtual productions planned for the Spring semester! Stay tuned as we release details after the holidays!
Theatre alumni holiday event
Theatre alumni are invited to join us for a virtual holiday event on Wednesday, December 16 from 5:30-6:30 pm. You can register for the event here. There is a limit of 50 participants.
We are planning a virtual Chat with the Chair, Nina Lucas, for Dance alumni next semester!
Introducing Jeff Sherwood
Jeff Sherwood, our new Postgraduate Teacher-Scholar in Theatre, is a recent graduate from Purdue University. He has been hard at work since his arrival this fall on both rounds of Connected in the Deep and Young Voices of Protest as well as mentoring the rising generation of sound artists and engineers. Last spring, he was awarded the USITT Robert E. Cohen Sound Achievement Award. To find out more about Jeff, his work, or hear a podcast interview with him about the USITT award, please visit www.sherwoodsound.com.
Wake the Arts
Christina Tsoules Soriano, Associate Provost for the Arts and Associate Professor of Dance, has been busy spearheading the creation of a new website that will act as the hub for all the arts at Wake Forest University. WakeTheArts.wfu.edu has officially launched! You will find information about productions, exhibits, and news across all of the arts disciplines on the site.
Retirement announcement
Carol Lavis, Administrative Coordinator for the Department of Theatre & Dance and Registrar for the Community Ballet program, will be retiring on January 8, 2021. She joined Wake Forest University in 1990 and has been a pivotal member of our department for the last 21 years. Please join us in wishing Carol a fond farewell as she embarks on her next journey. Congratulations, Carol!
Credits:
Ken Bennett, Bill Ray III, Betsy Mann, and J.K. Curry