The Student Directed Series in the UB Department of Theatre and Dance is where emerging practitioners can challenge themselves artistically while collaborating with peers.
Join the University at Buffalo Department of Theatre and Dance for a season of dance, musicals, and drama. The spring 2023 season consists of live performances at the UB Center for the Arts and at the Katharine Cornell Theatre, both on UB North campus.
“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?"
This January UB Theatre and Dance was represented at the 55th 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.
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.
Congratulations to Assistant Professor Ariel Nereson, PhD, on her acceptance as a participant in the Sawyer Seminar Reimagining the American Landscape: Race and the Future of Public History.
Congratulations to Associate Professor and Director of Theatre BA Meredith Conti, PhD, on the publication of her most recent book Theatre and the Macabre, co-edited with Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr.
Congratulations to assistant professor Ariel Nereson, PhD, on the publication of her most recent book Democracy Moving: Bill T. Jones, Contemporary American Performance, and the Racial Past.