This fall, Emma will be moving on to an exciting new chapter: pursuing a Master of Fine Arts in Technical Design and Production at the prestigious David Geffen School of Drama at Yale University.
Meet our Theatre and Performance students who will be working in the industry this summer.
Stratford Text Coach Tim Welham to Direct Fall 2025 Production of A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Announcing the winners of the 2024/25 Theatre and Performance prizes.
Lilian Adom was chosen to join the Young, Gifted & Black training program at Obsidian Theatre as their Lighting Designer.
Communication Arts Associate Prof. Shana MacDonald interview on CBC's The Morning Edition with Craig Norris.
The Theatre and Performance program is excited to announce that Award-winning Canadian director and actor, Tanja Jacobs is directing the Fall Production,
EVERYBODY by Black American playwright, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins.
EVERYBODY is a fourth wall defying contemporary adaptation of the 15th-century morality play, EVERYMAN. Jacobs-Jenkins’ secular take on the idea of morality and the journey to one’s demise is brilliantly written as a comedic adventure to the afterlife, where the protagonist, EVERYBODY, must answer to DEATH and bring a presentation of their life to GOD. EVERYBODY, terrified of completing this endeavour alone, seeks out the help of various figures in their life to accompany them into the unknown potential afterlife.
The Theatre and Performance program is excited to announce that Ontario-based multi- disciplinary theatre artist, Liza Balkan, is the director of our winter production of Mustard by
“I love the balance of having a semester where I can study a variety of subjects that will go towards my majors and minors.”
Over the lockdown(s), the Humanities Theatre in Hagey Hall quietly changed hands from being centrally managed for all its years of operation to Faculty of Arts management. Given its location and name, many might have assumed the theatre had always lived under the administrative umbrella of Arts, but that’s not the case — until now.