As returning Chair of the Department of Theatre, I join with chairpersons and directors from across UNCW in the following statement:
We mourn with the victims of racist violence across the United States. We know the names George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery. Yet, our society inflicts countless acts of injustice and brutality on black and brown people continually. We do not know how to name them all.
We share the anger and the hope of those who are protesting racism across America. It must be confronted within our university as well, and it must be confronted by each member of our community: black, brown, and white. There is no middle ground between racism and anti-racism. We must all commit ourselves to confront racist ideologies, sentiments, and actions, if we wish to see UNCW live true to its values of diversity, integrity, and excellence.
We as chairpersons and directors will lead, teach, research, and serve in ways that address the challenges and the aspirations articulated in this statement and our Chancellor's.
Welcome to the Department of Theatre
Our goal is to nurture, encourage, support, train and educate the artist in the study and practice of theatre. We train students to pursue a career in the vast field of SHOW BUSINESS. Whether that is in theatre, film, television or a host of other related fields. Students learn the essential skills needed to be successful.
- We educate a new generation of artists through close work with stellar faculty and working theatre & film professionals.
- We offer students an environment to allow them a space to explore their imagination, hone their techniques and to develop entrepreneurial skills, for a successful career as an artist and artisan.
- We prepare liberal arts students with skills they learn in theatre studies - teamwork, technique, discipline, research, and innovative thinking - for success in many fields and careers.
We offer three degree options:
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Department of Theatre News
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UNCW adapts to new normal of producing theater during pandemic
- UNCW Play Delves into Existential Darkness
- Radost Ukrainian Dance Company Visits UNCW Dance Classes
- UNCW Faculty Member, Nick Basta, Stars in New Harriet Tubman Film
- UNCW Professors Marino, Post, and Wagenseller Participating in Productions at the Lumina Festival
- UNCW Faculty Member, Myke Holmes, Stars alongside John Malkovich
- Department of Theatre Hosts Dance Theatre of Harlem
- UNCW Students, Alumni, Faculty, and Staff Nominated for Wilmington Theater Awards
- Theatre Professor Ed Wagenseller's One-Man Show Academia Premieres at the Cucalorus Festival
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2020 - 2021 Mainstage Productions
For the fall 2020 semester, to ensure the safety of our students, faculty and staff all presentations will be private classroom/lab performances and will not be open to the general public.
A Slight Ache
by Harold Pinter
Directed by Ed Wagenseller
September 2020
Am I Next? Voices from Wilmington, NC
Written/Devised by students in the cast
Directed by Robin Post
November 12-15 & 19-22, 2020
Second Season
The Madness of Sherlock Holmes
by JPS Yates
Directed by John McCall '17
November 2 & 3, 2020
Spring 2021
To ensure the safety of our students, faculty and staff all presentations will be private classroom/lab performances and will not be open to the general public.
4:48 Psychosis
by Sarah Kane
directed by Charles Grimes
February 18-21 & 25-28
Live performances for UNCW students, faculty and staff only.
The Sunday February 21st performance will be livestreamed for the general public.
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Talley's Folly
by Lanford Wilson
directed by Kindra Steenerson
April 4/15-4/25
Live performances for UNCW students, faculty and staff only.
The Sunday April 18th performance will be livestreamed for the general public.
Student Lab presentation
Devised piece by students in the production
directed by Tanner Whicker '21
March 25-28
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