After teaching for the Taipei National University of the Arts on her second Fulbright grant to Taiwan, Claudia Howard Queen was invited to collaborate with Ku & Dancers for the concert Decode 2010.
Senior theatre major Matt Ransdell waited five years to play Usnavi, the Dominican-American rapper and "good kid" in the award-winning musical In the Heights.
Andrew B. Harris, professor of theatre history, play analysis and playwriting, found some other revelations when his play The Lady Revealed — about the "Dark Lady" behind Shakespeare's sonnets — was presented in the Department of Dance and Theatre this April.
UNT theatre students got the chance to present their talents in a professional venue when six short plays they wrote, directed and performed were presented at the Kitchen Dog Theater in Dallas this spring.
The Devil's Sonata, at the Studio Theatre, is a retelling of the Faustian tale in which the devil offers composer Giuseppe Tartini a beautiful piece of music.
What happens after the last page of a fairy tale? Cody Lucas ('10) took a dark and twisted look in his play, Happily Ever After, which earned an invitation to the New York International Fringe Festival in August.
Andrew Harris, professor of theatre history, play analysis and playwriting, has worked with senior theatre major Brian Hill on various projects for the last three years. When Harris wanted to develop a play from scratch, Hill seemed like the perfect fit.
Nick Mann’s (’07) play, Baby of Mine, made the semifinals in the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center’s 2012 National Playwrights Conference in Waterford, Conn.