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Happy Halloween, TDPS! Here's to a day full of tricks, treats, and spooky and/or humorous costumes.
This week we are opening our fantastic musical,
The Wild Party, directed by Scot Reese and Alvin Mayes. This cabaret-style show features dancing, singing, and a deadly game of one-upmanship. Check out the videos featured below to hear more about the set, costume,and lighting designs of our MFA Design students.
We have also opened up the call for Second Season proposals! If you are a student who has a great idea for a theatre or dance production, check out the details below.
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In this newsletter:
- Upcoming and recent TDPS events
- Feature Stories
- News (Awards & Honors, Performances & Productions, Publications, other activities)
- Opportunities (Jobs & Auditions; Scholarships, Fellowships, & Grants)
- Other Upcoming Events (Off-Campus)
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Tell us about the creative, collaborative, innovative, and entrepreneurial work you're doing!
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November 4-11
Kogod Theatre
When Queenie and Burrs set out to throw the party to end all parties, their motives aren’t exactly pure. Each intent on driving the other wild with jealousy, the night escalates into a deadly game of one-upmanship. With a jazz-steeped score by the Tony and Grammy-nominated Andrew Lippa (
The Addams Family,
Big Fish), this firecracker of a musical holds nothing back.
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Master Class with Shelly Peiken ‘79
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On October 17, multi-platinum Grammy nominated songwriter and UMD alum
Shelly Peiken
'79 led a master class and discussion (moderated by Professor Scot Reese) in the Cafritz Foundation Theatre. Shelly read excerpts from her book,
Confessions of a Serial Songwriter, performed some of her hit songs (including "Bitch," made famous by Meredith Brooks), and spoke about her experience as a songwriter and activist in the music industry. Read more about the event on Shelly's
blog and check out some highlights below!
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"Put in your 10,000 hours. Write a bunch of crappy songs. Be active."
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"Those cheesy cliches? They're probably true. 'Believe in yourself.' 'Envision it.'"
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"Always write down those golden nuggets!"
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Photography credit: Geoff Sheil, The Clarice
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Feature: Designing The Wild Party
Videos by Geoff Sheil, The Clarice
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TDPS Students and Alumni in Milk Like Sugar at Mosaic Theater
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The work of five TDPS current students and alumni will be in
Mosaic Theater’s Milk Like Sugar. The cast will feature TDPS student
Tyasia Velines and alum
Vaughn Midder (BA Theatre ‘14); PhD candidate
Khalid Yaya Long is the production’s dramaturg; and costume designer
Marci Rodgers (MFA Design ‘16) is assisted by TDPS student
Claudia Brownlee on the costume design.
Read More
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Milk Like Sugar, Mosaic Theater, official production image
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TDPS students, faculty, and alumni perform at Dance Place's gala event on October 1.
Photo credit: Patrik Widrig.
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- Kreativity Diversity Troupe's Kreativity Open Mic Night was reviewed by the UMD Writer's Blog.
- Dance students, faculty, and alumni performed at Dance Place’s gala event on October 1. TDPS professors Sara Pearson and Patrik Widrig were invited to create a site-specific dance in Dance Place's new upstairs office space, through which the audience rambled for 45 minutes. TDPS student and alumni performed for the event, including Jasmine Watkins (BA Dance student), Chelsea Brown (BA Dance ‘16), Bethany Disque (BA Dance ‘13), Xin Ran Rose Qi (UMD international language student), Lynne Price (MFA Dance ‘15), Allen Xing (MFA Dance candidate), and Mustapha Braimah (MFA Dance candidate).
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Senior Theatre major
Moyenda Kulemeka and senior Dance major
Eva Cristina González have been selected to receive the
Dean’s Senior Scholar Award from the College of Arts & Humanities. The awards will be celebrated at a reception and ceremony on November 15 starting at 5pm, held at the Atrium of the Stamp Student Union. Congratulations, Moyenda and Eva Cristina!
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Have you recently received an exciting opportunity, award, or accolade?
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Call for
2017-2018 Second Season Proposals!
Do you have a production idea, but it's not quite ready for the Main Season?
It may be a perfect fit for the Second Season!
Second Season provides students with the opportunity to produce their own work in a TDPS space. We look for pieces in all states of development. Your idea doesn’t have to be ready to be “fully produced” to be considered.
Second Season is completely self-produced by the student. You find your own designers, director/choreographers, you cast your own performers, and recruit your own crew, and with a modest department-provided budget, you produce your own show! It is an exciting study in self-production.
This is an excellent opportunity to showcase that original dance piece you have been working on, or direct a play that you feel the department NEEDS to see, or do a staged reading of a play you are writing. As an example, this season, we are producing premieres by student playwrights, multimedia pieces, and several original dance pieces
Interested? Mark these dates on your calendar:
- Workshop - Monday, December 5, 2016 from 5pm-6pm in the Mulitz-Gudelsky Rehearsal Room
- Proposal deadline - Monday, February 13, 2017
Before you fill out the application (PDF and Docx), please review the Second Season guidelines.
Email electronic submissions to Cate Barger at cbarger@umd.edu.
Place paper submissions in Cate Barger’s mailbox in the TDPS Mail Room.
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A performance of the Teen Performance Ensemble and the Prince George's Children's Theater
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Scholarships, Fellowships,
Grants & Competitions
- Undergraduate students: Call for
10-minute plays! Undergraduate playwrights may submit 10-minute plays for consideration to be selected for the TDPS New Play Workshop. Submissions are due November 1; more information available on the flyer.
- Reminder: November 4 deadline! Bernard/Ebb Songwriting Competition will award one talented songwriter a grand prize of $10,000 and another young songwriter (17 or younger) with $2,500. For more details, please see the announcement and application website.
- PhD candidates: The Consortium on Race, Gender and Ethnicity (CRGE) is calling for proposals for a $1,000-$2,500 seed grant for dissertations using qualitative methods. Details available here.
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Raphael Xavier at The Clarice November 10-12
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- Check out the Luna Lounge Art Showcase in the Baltimore Room of The Stamp Student Union on November 4 from 6-9pm, featuring dance, spoken word, film, photography, music, and visual art.
- There will be a FREE movement class with Raphael Xavier, rooted in his Ground-core technique on Saturday, November 12 at 11am in Studio 2 at The Clarice. More details available on the flyer. He will also be performing his work Point of Interest at The Clarice on November 10-11.
- The DC Jewish Community Center is hosting a Dance Performance and Gaga Workshop on November 13. This participatory session will include a multi-level dance class, a lecture-conversation and a dance demonstration set on Howard University dance students by Ella Rothschild. More details are available here.
- Broadway workshop with the stars from Pippin on November 13 from 11 to 4:30. This five-hour class (in Alexandria, VA) will cover musical theater audition technique, song selection and review. Participants will also learn choreography from a Broadway show! Instructors Brian Flores (Pippin) and Gabrielle McClinton will work with participants one-on-one and in a small group setting. Please be prepared to sing 16-32 bars of a Broadway song of your choice (and have a second ready in case you get to work on two). There will be a Q&A following the workshop. Use code BROADWAY to save $35.00 for DC Theater Group members. Recommended ages 12 to adult (20's). Visit www.scene-1.com to sign up and get more info.
- Arena Stage is offering group discounts to their presentation of Lookingglass Theatre Company’s Moby Dick.; groups of 10 or more can save up to 50%. Tickets may be booked by calling Parker Solomon, Group Sales Associate at 202-488-4380, Monday – Friday from 9:30 am to 6:00 pm.
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