UNC Joan H. Gillings Center for Dramatic Art

06/02/2021

An international online course connects students from three universities to explore how theater-makers can adapt, recover and thrive amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The first page of the syllabus for Adam Versényi’s undergraduate international theater course features this 1933 quote from … Continue...

05/15/2021

Congratulations Class of 2021!

09/23/2020

Shelley Butler (DDA '98) and her husband West Hyler have formed a brand-new company; Artistic Stamp. It's an interactive theater company that produces mail-based plays in the form of written correspondence. The inaugural season has 6 different interactive plays and all 6 are on sale until Friday the 25th. Website for more info! artisticstamp.com

Or read more here: https://dcmetrotheaterarts.com/2020/09/16/broadway-directors-west-hyler-and-shelley-butler-deliver-their-artistic-stamp-via-the-usps/

08/19/2020

Congratulations to our newest Marian A. Smith costume scholar, Erin Rodgers!

Erin Rodgers is a third-year MFA student in Costume Production at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is the graduate research assistant for the Costar collection of vintage clothing, housed in the Department of Dramatic Art. She has also worked with PlayMakers Repertory Company, in residence at UNC-CH, as a first hand and draper throughout her graduate education. In 2019 she was a first hand at Utah Shakespeare Festival, where she was scheduled to return for summer 2020 until COVID prevented it. She previously attended Furman University, where she earned a BA in Art and was introduced to theatrical costuming as a career pursuit. Erin has worked regionally across the southeast, including at Heritage Theatre Festival, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, and Orlando Shakes, as well as in NYC at Radio City Music Hall, Parsons-Meares, LTD, and several years at New York City Ballet. Her particular costume interests include historical patterning, studying extant garments, and costume collections management.

05/13/2020

Dramatic Art alumna Catya McMullen '11 is helping, through the Homebound Project, to support the No Kid Hungry campaign, which is raising funds to help feed the 850,000 schoolchildren currently cut off from school meals.

Every day, kids in need are missing nearly 850,000 meals at school in New York City, due to COVID-19 closures. Nationwide, that number jumps to over 33 million meals.

05/10/2020

Congratulations Class of 2020!

02/20/2020

Check out this feature on DDA alum, Korde Arrington Tuttle!

The playwright of ‘graveyard shift’ talks about football, spoken-word poetry, and finding a home in the theatre.

02/11/2020

Kathy Perkins, one of our Professor Emeritus, recently won the Wally Russell Professional Mentoring Award. This award, sponsored by the Wally Russell Foundation and presented by USITT, honors a professional who has guided the next generation of emerging artists. Congratulations, Kathy!

The results are in! Awards season is an exciting time for many in the entertainment industry. From the Grammys to the Golden Globes, there's an abundance of award excitement — and USITT is no exception! All award winners will be formally recognized at USITT 2020 in Houston. We're less than two mon...

02/05/2020

Tickets for "Indeed, friend!" are now on sale! Tickets may be purchased at the Union Box Office, at the door, or online – $5 for students, or $10 for non-students. Online ticket sales end at noon on each show day.

2019 - 2020 Season Indeed, friend! By Eliza Bent Directed by Talya Klein February 27 - March 2, 2020   Indeed, friend! by Eliza Bent Directed by Talya Klein February 27—March 2, 2020 Tickets for Indeed, friend! are now on sale! Tickets may be purchased at the Union Box Office, at the door, or onl...

11/24/2019

11/13/2019

Check out what PATP Alum Greg DeCandia is up to. If you are in Philadelphia you can see his work on the new musical Alien 8 at Drexel University opening this Friday November 15th

Ignition Arts is a non-profit production company currenlty in residence at Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma. OUR MISSION: To entertain, educate and enlighten audiences with exciting world premieres and innovative explorations of classic works.

10/29/2019

Tickets for our One Acts Festival are now on sale! The festival runs from November 21 – November 25 in the Kenan Theatre. Tickets are $5 for students or $10 for the general public and can be purchased at the link below, at the Union box office, or at the door. Shows start at 7:30, with a 2pm Sunday Matinee and Monday's show starting at 5:30.