Carnegie Mellon School of Drama

08/22/2026

We had a great orientation week, welcoming the BFA Class of 2030 and our incoming MFA students. ❤️

08/18/2026

We are proud to partner with Carnegie Mellon College of Engineering and global entertainment company TAIT on a new course that brings engineers and theater students together to solve live entertainment challenges by redesigning the systems behind modern touring productions.

Read more about this exciting initiative below!

A new Carnegie Mellon course is bringing engineers and theater students together to solve live entertainment challenges by redesigning the systems behind modern touring productions with industry partner and global entertainment company TAIT.

08/05/2026

In the idyllic hills of Spring Green, Wisconsin, situated on 110 acres of former farmland, American Players Theatre (APT) has been making magic for its community and providing an artistic home to theater-makers–including many Carnegie Mellon University faculty and alumni–for 47 years. This year, APT was the recipient of the Regional Theatre Tony Award.

Read more below about this incredible company with Tartan ties!

American Players Theatre won the 2026 Regional Theatre Tony Award. Read about its connections with Carnegie Mellon School of Drama.

07/10/2026

Update: Congratulations to our *19* alumni nominated for Primetime Emmy Awards! Read more at the link below.

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18 Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) Alumni Earn 27 Emmy Nominations for their work across the television industry.

06/23/2026

For the past two weeks, artists from across the country and right here in Pittsburgh have been in residence at the School of Drama, workshopping new productions as part of ColLABo - a production development incubator housed under the Center for New Work that brings theater makers from multiple disciplines together to wrestle with production-related challenges on a project they intend to have produced.

This year’s projects were:

“Happy Birthday Supervisor Robot” (photos 1-4)
NYC-based artists Joshua Gelb (CMU alum), Shoshanah Tarkow, and Andrés Poch worked with CMU students Ryan Yu, Jo Adereth, Truman Zephyr, and alumnus Isaac Jo on media, scenic, and sound design aspects of their theatrical investigation into robots, automation, and labor. They also spent their time at CMU interviewing roboticists from the CMU Robotics Institute, NREC, and Entertainment Technology Center.

“Space Dogs” (photos 5-7)
Pittsburgh-based artists José Perez, Rianne Lindsey, and Shannon Knapp, with support from CMU alumna Abby Bi and a host of local performers and combatants, used their time at ColLABo to begin creating multi-media and soundscape for their live-action, sci-fi, spaceship dogfight.

“The Carlisle Project” (photos 8-10)
With support from Octopus Theatricals LLC, ColLABo served as the first full, in-person gathering of the design team for this multidisciplinary musical song cycle and healing ritual that unravels the complicated legacy and trauma of Indian boarding schools and explores what it means to be Native American now. Led by director Madeline Sayet and writers Ronee Penoi and Annalisa Dias, with support from CMU student Ella Johns, movement faculty Lucas Fedele, and a group of local actors, the team worked on developing the movement vocabulary and storytelling mechanisms through sound and media design.

[Photos 1-7 by Louis Stein]

06/12/2026

06/06/2026

From screen to stage, Jules Fisher has been crafting magic through light for six decades. 🪄

The renowned lighting designer graduated from the Carnegie Mellon School of Drama in 1960, and has gone on to earn more than 20 Tony nominations and nine Tony Awards for his work in lighting design – a record in the category. On Sunday, Fisher will be honored with a special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement at the Tony Awards.

"The best school for undergraduates who want to study theatre and make a place for themselves in the real world," Fisher said of CMU.

06/06/2026

05/29/2026

As we begin our countdown to the Tony Awards, we celebrate our alumni who are shining on stage and off this Broadway season!

Say hello to a few of them in this video, and see a full list at:
https://drama.cmu.edu/news/tartans-on-broadways-25-26-season/

As we begin our countdown to The Tony Awards, say hello to just a f...