Tina Yarborough Liggins was honored with an Arts Legacy Award in Dance at the Juneteenth GSO Fest on June 20, 2025. The awards honor the contributions made by Black artists, arts administrators, and arts institutions in the local community. Other honorees this year are: Payroll […]
Wake Forest’s theatre talent took center stage at the Southeastern Theatre Conference (SETC) Awards this month, where Zac Anderson (‘25) placed second in Undergraduate Lighting Design, and Vir Gupta (‘25) earned third in Undergraduate Projection Design. From March 19-22, theatre students traveled to Baltimore, Maryland, […]
In the late 1970s, Harold Tedford acquired a collection of dresses from the nineteenth century for the theatre. Over the years, the collection has grown, mostly with donations. In the summer of 2010, Mary Wayne-Thomas and Caroline Dignes (class of 2010), began the process of […]
Congratulations to all of the graduates from our department. Click HERE to view a document celebrating each senior.
Barter College recently announced the winners of its annual College Playwrights competition and senior English and Theatre major Frances Gray Riggs was named as one of the six winners. Barter’s College Play Festival (CPF) is a 10-Minute Play Festival designed to give Appalachian undergraduate college […]
Witness for the Prosecution by Agatha Christie directed by Sharon Andrews Sep 22 – Oct 1, 2023 Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom based on the book by Lynda Blackmon Lowery; developed for the stage by Ally Sheedy directed by Jackie Alexander (NC Black […]
Theatre & Dance students and inaugural Dodding Award recipients, Vir Gupta (’25) and Riley Shanaghan (’25), used their Dodding Award to attend the Prague Quadrennial this June. Vir and Riley joined Professor of Design & Production, Rob Eastman-Mullins, for the […]
Here is a video montage celebrating this year’s theatre and dance seniors.
Wake Forest University and Wake Forest University School of Medicine will receive $3 million over five years from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to help researchers take the next steps in nearly a decade of research that indicates dance can promote cognitive health. The […]
The play Killing Gilderoy by senior Cameron Michles was among six winning 10-minute plays to be featured in Barter Theatre’s College Playwrights Festival. The competition celebrates undergraduate students in southern Appalachian states with winners having the opportunity to have professional stage readings of their works and attend workshops with professional […]