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UW announces 2024 Awards of Excellence recipients
June 14, 2024
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Unraveling international challenges through theater
February 26, 2024
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TIME 2024 WOMEN OF THE YEAR: The Poet Whose Writing Will Be Launched Into Space
February 20, 2024
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US POET LAUREATE AND UW DRAMA ALUMNAE ADA  LIMÓN (98) ANNOUNCED As A 2023 MACARTHUR FELLOW!
October 4, 2023
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US Poet Laureate and UW Drama alumnae Ada Limón announced as a 2023 MacArthur Fellow
October 3, 2023
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Meet this year’s MacArthur ‘genius grant’ recipients, including a hula master and the poet laureate
October 3, 2023
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UW, a jewel of Seattle, shines in global academic ranking
August 21, 2022
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Arts & Sciences' Fab Four for 2022
June 23, 2022
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Malika Oyetimein Appointed Merrimack Rep’s Artist-in-Residence
August 4, 2021
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Malika Oyetimein Appointed Merrimack Rep’s Artist-in-Residence
July 20, 2021
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Awards of Excellence
June 15, 2021
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Awards of Excellence
June 14, 2021
Portraits of scholarship recipients
Congratulations to our 2021 scholarship recipients!
June 7, 2021
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"Faculty/staff honors: Field research grant, staffer’s play streams, cartoon remembrance UW News staff"
March 8, 2021
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"Faculty/staff honors: Field research grant, staffer’s play streams, cartoon remembrance UW News staff"
March 2, 2021
Karen Hartman and Darby Sherwood on Zoom
[Here/Now] Episode 3: Darby & Karen
December 9, 2020
Photos of all scholarship recipients
Congratulations to our 2020 scholarship recipients!
June 8, 2020
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22 UW students receive Fulbright awards
June 4, 2020
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Faculty/staff honors: Awards in architecture education, biomaterials research; nursing, cloud computing fellowships; and drama leader named among most Seattle’s most influential
February 10, 2020
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An Essential List of Influential People of the Decade
January 1, 2020
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7 memorable Seattle theater moments of the 2010s
December 26, 2019
The Gregory Awards presented by Theatre Puget Sound 2019
Congratulations the 2019 UW Drama Gregory Award Nominees! 
September 19, 2019
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Valerie Curtis-Newton Receives Highest Honor at 2019 Gregory Awards
September 11, 2019
Dean Robert Stacey with 2019 Dean's Medalists and Graduate Medalists
Students & Superlatives
August 7, 2019
Sunam Ellis at 2019 School of Drama Graduation Ceremony / Photo by Logan Guerrero
"Above all else, be kind" // PATP alum Sunam Ellis delivers Drama 2019 Graduation Ceremony keynote
June 27, 2019
Daniel Alexander Jones and Karen Hartman, 2019 Guggenheim Fellows
Two members of the UW Drama family named 2019 Guggenheim Fellows
April 19, 2019
Malika Oyetimein, Cassius Clay
UW Drama Family Members Nominated for Seattle Theater Writers Awards
January 29, 2019
Magelssen (R) and crew mates suit up at the Museum of Flight’s Challenger Learning Center.
Scott Magelssen awarded Petersen Endowed Fellowship
January 8, 2019
Aurora Valentinetti
Emeritus Faculty Aurora Valentinetti Wins Distinguished Teaching Award
September 25, 2018
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Congratulations to the UW Drama Gregory Award Nominees! 
September 6, 2018
Odai Johnson Distinguished Alum University of Utah
Professor Odai Johnson honored with Distinguished Alumni Award from the Department of Theatre at the University of Utah
October 3, 2017
Tina Polzin
Tina Polzin (MFA '15) Awarded Innovation Seed Grant for Lady from the Sea 
April 21, 2017
Professor Valerie Curtis-Newton
Professor Valerie Curtis-Newton Awarded Artist Trust's Innovator Award
March 10, 2017
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Congratulations to Our Gregory Award Winners! 
October 25, 2016
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2016–17 Scholarship & Award Recipients
June 21, 2016
Simon Tran at the Edmund Pettus Bridge during the Civil Rights Pilgrimage with UW's Dept. of Communication.
Mary Gates Scholars x 3
April 11, 2016
Desdemona Chiang
Desdemona Chiang (MFA '09) receives 2016 Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise 
February 3, 2016
First Place Team: Mickey's Magic Garden (Front Row Left to Right)- Geoff Backstrom and Katie Eastman. (Back Row Left to Right) - Courtney Irby and David Borning - ©Disney photo by Gary Krueger.
David Borning (Senior, Drama Design) Awarded First Place in Walt Disney Imagineering Imaginations Design Competition
January 29, 2016
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Senior David Borning's Design Team Named a Finalist for the 2016 Walt Disney Imagineering Imaginations Design Competition
January 13, 2016
Skip Mercier
Skip Mercier Receives TBA Award for Outstanding Scenic Design
November 20, 2015
Matthew Smucker. Photo by Kelly O. Lettering by Mike Force.
Matt Smucker (MFA '02) nominated for Stranger Genius Award
June 10, 2015
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UW Drama makes The Hollywood Reporter's list of top 25 drama schools
June 1, 2015
Fireman, by Tommy Smith (BA '01), at Echo Theater Company. Photo by Jeff Galfer.
Alums Win L.A. Drama Critics Circle Awards
March 17, 2015
Mitchell Krawczyk, 2013-2014 junior president's medalist
Mitchell Krawczyk, UTS Social Media Coordinator, Selected for President's Medal
February 24, 2015
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School of Drama Ranked Top 10 for Drama Kids
January 12, 2015
Valerie Curtis-Newton
Valerie Curtis-Newton Awarded Crosscut's Courage Award in Culture
October 28, 2014
Valerie Curtis-Newton
Valerie Curtis-Newton Wins Stranger Genius Award
October 22, 2014
Lisa Jackson-Schebetta
Lisa Jackson-Schebetta (PhD 2010) Awarded Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship from AAUW
October 8, 2014
Tlaloc Rivas
Tlaloc Rivas (MFA 1999) Awarded 2014-2015 Gielgud Fellowship
October 2, 2014
Professor Emeritus Barry Witham Awarded 2014 John W. Frick Book Award
August 26, 2014

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