UMD SCHOOL OF THEATRE, DANCE, AND PERFORMANCE STUDIES EXPANDING IDEAS THROUGH PERFORMING ARTS TO BUILD COMMUNITIES, SOLVE PROBLEMS AND CREATE A LIFE OF MEANING.
UMD SCHOOL OF THEATRE, DANCE, AND PERFORMANCE STUDIES
SPRING THESIS 2015 Nicole McClam photo by Zachary Z. Handler
The UMD School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies (TDPS) continues its groundbreaking use of art to prompt dialogue and foster understanding of issues relevant to today’s world. These issues can be complex and provocative, even controversial. Encompassing an extraordinary range of ideas explored through performance, TDPS boldly tackles issues of race and gender, class struggle and sexual violence, politics and religion, humanity and mortality.
photo by Mike Ciesielski
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TDPS’s 2015–2016 season culminates with New Visions/New Voices in collaboration with The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. A partnership among seven organizations in four countries, since its inception in 1991 the program has assisted in the development of nearly 100 new plays and musicals. This year as a partner in New Visions/New Voices, TDPS will host international playwrights and performing arts administrators in intensive rehearsals and staged readings of new plays, performed and developed by TDPS students at The Clarice. TDPS students will work as actors, dramaturgs, stage managers and production assistants alongside directors and staff from The John F. Kennedy Center at UMD, and then move to The Kennedy Center for continued development and collaboration with professional actors. Leigh Wilson Smiley Director, UMD School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies
UMD SCHOOL OF THEATRE, DANCE, AND PERFORMANCE STUDIES 2015–2016 SEASON
