Training
•Bullet: BA curriculum led by Chair Margaret Laurena Kemp and Professor Jon D. Rossini, author of books on Latina/o and Puerto Rican diasporic theatre whose creative work includes writing for performance and dramaturgy
•Bullet: Design and production training from faculty including Ethan Hollinger, Head of Theatrical Design (lighting, sound and media design), and Steven Schmidt, Technical Director; Senior Continuing Lecturer Michele Apriña Leavy is a professional actor who has performed with American Conservatory Theater and Berkeley Repertory Theatre
•Bullet: Every major completes production work in at least two of three areas — performance, design, and directing/playwriting/stage management — plus required crew assignments and production lab work before graduating
Notable Alumni
•Bullet: Dahlak Brathwaite — BA English and Theatre & Dance, 2008; performed on HBO's Def Poetry Jam and has presented work at SXSW, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, The Smithsonian, Ars Nova, The Apollo, and Off-Broadway •Bullet: Jeffrey Carlson — BA 1997; played the rock star Zarf, who became Zoe, on ABC's All My Children, originated the role of Billy in Edward Albee's The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? on Broadway, and worked at the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon Facilities
•Bullet: Productions are staged in the Main Theatre, a proscenium theatre in Celeste Turner Wright Hall, the Arena Theatre in Wright Hall, and Wyatt Pavilion Theatre, a thrust-stage theatre in a building constructed in 1907 as the campus Judging Pavilion
•Bullet: The Della Davidson Performance Studio in Nelson Hall and Laboratory Theatre A, an intimate laboratory theatre, are also among the department's performance spaces
