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Community Impact

ArtsUW Roundup: wrap up the year at the Burke Museum and Henry Art Gallery and see what’s coming up in 2020

December 12, 2019

ArtsUW Roundup: Professor Chadwick Allen presents Earthworks Rising, annual School of Music CarolFest, and more

November 25, 2019

ArtsUW Roundup: the Paco de Lucia Project, CabLab, Jenny Odell at Town Hall, and more

October 28, 2019

ArtsUW Roundup: Visit the Burke Museum, attend a Sankai Juku performance, and more.

October 10, 2019

On Seattle stages, black women playwrights speak for themselves

September 26, 2019

ArtsUW Roundup: Visit Arts Buzz at Dawg Daze, buy tickets to the Burke Opening Weekend, and more!

September 20, 2019
The Gregory Awards presented by Theatre Puget Sound 2019

Congratulations the 2019 UW Drama Gregory Award Nominees! 

September 19, 2019

Valerie Curtis-Newton Receives Highest Honor at 2019 Gregory Awards

September 11, 2019

ArtsUW Roundup: Creating Alternative Worlds, Bulrusher, Final Week of James Coupe: Exercises in Passivity and more!

August 16, 2019

Behind the Byline: Meet arts critic Moira Macdonald

August 8, 2019

Staff Story: Holly Arsenault

August 8, 2019

ArtsUW Roundup: A Site Responsive Exhibition, #HEREproject, Sound and Images, Body Awareness, Strange Coupling 2019 Exhibition Reception, Daniel Alexander Jones reading, and more!

June 6, 2019

University Of Washington School Of Drama Announces 2019 - 2020 Season

June 3, 2019

ArtsUW Roundup: You Are Not Invited, world premier of ‘Lynch: A History’ at SIFF, last week to see ‘Nina Simone: Four Women’, Edgar Arceneaux’s Library of Black Lies, and ‘The Learned Ladies’, and more!

May 30, 2019

A new play looks at Black trauma and the struggle for self-determination

May 30, 2019

ARTSUW Roundup: Eleventh Improvised Music Project Festival (IMPFest XI), Graduation Exhibitions, The Learned Ladies, and more!

May 23, 2019

ARTSUW Roundup: newly launched ARTSUW website, JACK Quartet performance, Heisenberg, Print Sale, Screening at LANGSTON, MFA Dance Concert, and more!

May 15, 2019

Seattle's hometown film hero opens SIFF again

May 15, 2019

ARTSUW Roundup: Peruvian Textiles, This Moment, Innovation the Nordic Way, International Experimental Music Ensemble, MFA Concert, and more!

May 8, 2019

ArtsUW Roundup: Philip Glass’ Hydrogen Jukebox, George Rodriguez’s Exhibition Opening at MadArt, West Coast Premiere of “Nina Simone: Four Women”, and more!

April 24, 2019
Leah Adcock-Starr at Off Road Shakespeare

Interview with an Alum: Leah Adcock-Starr on Off Road Shakespeare 

April 23, 2019

With ‘Nina Simone: Four Women,’ director Valerie Curtis-Newton wants audiences to see the work of black women

April 17, 2019

ArtsUW Roundup: Romeo and Jules, Seattle Symphony: Mozart Symphony No. 40, Performing with the Brain, and more!

April 17, 2019

This Week Then: Celebrating National Poetry Month in Washington

April 11, 2019

From Parks and Rec to A Doll's House

April 10, 2019

The Story of ‘Warrior,’ Bruce Lee’s Long-Delayed TV Series

April 4, 2019
Portrait of Chante Hamann, standing in one of the School of Drama's storage rooms for costumes.

Costumes with a Story to Tell

March 18, 2019
Yesenia Iglesias in A Christmas Carol

Interview with an Alum: Yesenia Iglesias on Playing Mrs. Cratchit 

November 13, 2018

Playwright Mrinalini Kamath is connecting with Seattle and finding inspiration here

October 8, 2018
Aurora Valentinetti

Emeritus Faculty Aurora Valentinetti Wins Distinguished Teaching Award

September 25, 2018
Abby and Tabby Alone in the Desert Title Art

Interview with an Alum: Markie Hu on Costume Designing Abby and Tabby Alone in the Desert 

September 13, 2018

Congratulations to the UW Drama Gregory Award Nominees! 

September 6, 2018

Seattle playwright’s ambitious new drama is a warning for the future

July 19, 2018
Summer at UW

Summer 2018: What our students, faculty, and staff are up to! 

June 12, 2018
Lex Marcos / Photo by Kyler Martin

Alumni Spotlight: Lex Marcos

April 4, 2018
Production Photo from Bullet Catchers

Bullet Catchers, a new play created by Julia Sears ('12) profiled in Perspectives

November 7, 2017
Nina Williams at the Seattle Rep

The Odyssey: An Exploration of Finding Community

November 7, 2017
Monica and Guillaume at GeekGirlCon

UW PhD Students talk pop culture and theatre fandom (and Hamilton) at GeekGirlCon

October 13, 2017
EDI Luncheon Graphic

"Why Learn about Equity as Students?" A Brown Bag Conversation 

October 4, 2017
Lenne Klingaman as Hamlet

Shifting the Perspective: Lenne Klingaman as Hamlet 

October 2, 2017
Mickey Rowe in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime

Representation in Theatre: Mickey Rowe in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime

October 2, 2017
Tom Dang as Richard III

Student & Alumni News, May 2017

May 19, 2017
Mickey Rowe. Photo by Mario Lemafa.

Mickey Rowe (BA '11) cast as first openly autistic actor in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 

May 19, 2017
Tina Polzin

Tina Polzin (MFA '15) Awarded Innovation Seed Grant for Lady from the Sea 

April 21, 2017
Here Lies Love at the Seattle Repertory Theatre

FREE Discussion Panel: "Exploration of Youth Resistance: Past and Present" 

April 21, 2017
Eloisa Cardona in LOCKED

Alumni and Faculty News 

April 14, 2017
Shaudi Vahdat (BA '12)

Alumni Interview: Shaudi Vahdat (BA '12) on Being a Producer and an Actor 

April 5, 2017
Jessica Martin (BA '08)

  Alumni Interview: Jessica Martin (BA '08) on Creating Her First Feature Film, Abby and Tabby: Alone in the Desert

March 27, 2017
Allyson Brown in Milk Like Sugar

Student and Alumni News, March 2017

March 10, 2017
Dry Powder by Sarah Burgess

UW Night at the Seattle Rep's Dry Powder 

March 10, 2017