School of Drama

Since 1994, alumni and friends in the Multicultural Alumni Partnership have worked together to promote diversity at the UW and address issues of equity and diversity on our campuses and in our community. This year’s promising scholars range from early undergraduates who are still zeroing in on a major to those pursuing graduate and professional degrees.

This week at the UW, attend a lecture on revolutionary reforms to the metric system, "Asian American Women Rising: NOT the Model Minority," and more.

Jean Smart, who graduated from the UW in 1974 after studying drama, stars in the new HBO Max comedy "Hacks."

Adaptations of Henrik Ibsen’s emotional and political play, “Rosmersholm,” are no small task — especially over Vimeo livestream. But third-year MFA director Andrew Coopman was up for the challenge, and with the help of an accomplished cast, their UW School of Drama production proved to be a well-illustrated and inventive take on surprisingly relevant issues.

This week at the UW, watch the play Rosmersholm, attend a book talk, and more.

MFA in directing candidate Kristie Post Wallace's thesis production of "Accidental Death of an Anarchist" is a "graceful piece of art which made connecting with the story a piece of cake."

Valerie Curtis-Newton misses live theater. The head of directing and playwriting at the University of Washington School of Drama and the founding artistic director for Seattle-based theater company The Hansberry Project, Curtis-Newton is firm in this belief: The magic of theater is untranslatable to another medium.

Final-year MFA directorial candidate Andrew Coopman's "RE: Social/Divide' "is a new kind of production that could only come about at a cultural moment like the pandemic."

After struggling to embrace his culture and hiding his sexual orientation, Simon Tran (UW Drama & CHID, '16) finally found self-acceptance and the Asian ally he needed.
After being bullied by his high school journalism teacher, Simon went on to study writing at the UW, where he met a half-Asian teaching assistant who would change how he viewed his own culture and find pride in being Vietnamese.

This week at the UW, attend the Kollar Symposium in American Art History: Legacies and Futures, Music of Today: Indigo Mist, and more.

Three Seattle universities, including the University of Washington, are uniting their undergraduate theatre programs in an artistic collaboration composed of two plays, which premiere on March 11.

Smadar Ben-Natan, a postdoctoral fellow in Israel studies in the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies, Holly Arsenault, director of engagement for the School of Drama, and José Alaniz, professor of Slavic languages and literatures have all recieved recent honors.

This week at the UW, join music history Professor Dr. Anne Searcy for a lecture about the dance of Hamilton, and visit UW museums that have recently reopened.

UW theater student Jarrett Johnson is among an entire class of emerging theater artists — fresh from drama programs, hustling between part-time jobs and busy audition schedules, or about to make their big breaks — whose careers have been stalled by the COVID-19 pandemic. The UW's Odai Johnson, professor of theater history, and Stefka Mihaylova, assistant professor of theater theory and criticism, are quoted.

This week at the UW, attend Fermented Face with Candice Lin, the School of Drama's dis/re/connection, and more.