Professor Jennifer Roberts-Smith is the recipient of a 2014 Ontario Early Researcher Award given to scholars to build teams of student and graduate researchers.
The Department of Drama and Speech Communication is excited to announce that Toronto-based actor-director, Stewart Arnott, has been contracted to direct the fall production of The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde.
The Drama program does it all. From adapting Shakespeare to staging current issues, from learning technical theatre skills to studying performance theory: students develop intellectual, applied and creative capacity.
St. Paul’s University College has announced that André Moreau (pictured) has accepted a contract position as the University of Waterloo’s first-ever Aboriginal Liaison Officer. Moreau works to build strong relationships in the Aboriginal education system in order to raise awareness and significantly increase the number of Aboriginal students who apply, register and self-declare annually.
What does it take to make a change? Six Speech Communication students started “Project Happy Power” this term when they were challenged in their Leadership course (SPCOM 227) to prove that a small gesture can accomplish big things. The goal was to show that advocacy is easy, for anyone.
From The Imprint preview:
"Richard III: No hump, twice the technology, still a dick"
From the uWaterloo homepage...
A team of Waterloo professors are hoping a new app that allows students to virtually stage their own productions of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet will inspire young people to see the play live.
Created by uWaterloo Drama’s own Professor Naila Keleta-Mae in 2008, on love was further developed by uWaterloo Drama students during theirPerformance Creation course with Keleta-Mae in the fall.
On November 14, the Drama department opens the 2012-13 season with Shakespeare’s Macbeth, the bard’s shortest and most popular tragedy. Exploring the familiar themes of ambition, corruption and violence, this production also alludes to contemporary manifestations of violence, both real and fictional.