Recent News

Now in its fourth season, ChoreoLab is a performance and choreographic research laboratory for faculty, graduate and undergraduate dance students, and guest artists. Under the direction of Clinical Assistant Professor Jenna Zavrel, the spring showcase opens next weekend.

Two articles about the Department's recent production of Eurydice appeared this week in The UB Spectrum.

Multiple honors awarded by the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival Region 2.

The Student Directed Series in the UB Department of Theatre and Dance is where emerging practitioners can challenge themselves artistically while collaborating with peers.  

This January UB Theatre and Dance was represented at the 55^th annual Kennedy Center Theater Festival at West Chester University in West Chester, PA by four talented students and new THD Costume Shop Manager / Clinical Assistant Professor Zechariah Saenz.

The Department of Theatre & Dance invites all students to audition for this spring's Student Directed Productions.

Sincere thank you to UB Spectrum and writer Alex Novak for their extensive coverage of our fall season of productions!

UBTHD would like to invite ALL UB students to audition for a role in our upcoming spring season.

“I want to combine my interest in pedagogy with experiences to ask, as a teacher, what are the best practices to foster emotional wellness? How do we as teachers not just help students to become good dancers but to be resilient and healthy and successful people in the world?"

Associate Professor Vincent O'Neill was named the 2022 Buffalo Theatre District Plaza of Stars Inductee for his work as Co-Founder and Artistic Director Emeritus of The Irish Classical Theatre Company.  

UB Department of Theatre and Dance seeks a lighting designer/technician for MFA Dance Showcase at the Katharine Cornell Theatre, Ellicott Complex North Campus.

The course awards credits to students who perform in a play under the direction of the adjunct instructor. The instructor will develop concepts, coach undergraduate performers, lead rehearsals, and collaborate with faculty, staff and emerging design and technology practitioners to realize the full-length play Eurydice by Sarah Ruhl.

Thank you to UBNow for its new feature article about THD’s recent summer residency with Entity Contemporary Dance Company and UB alumna Angel Mammoliti, coordinated by Associate Professor Melanie Aceto!