November 2, 4:15 p.m., Library 321 View in Events In her presentation, “Embodied Palestinian Solidarity,” Nicole Bindler will briefly cover the history of the 1948 Nakba, when 750,000 Palestinians were exiled, the current apartheid system and how it affects Palestinians on a bodily level, the conditions under which Palestinian artists live and make work, and Find out more »
Happenstance Theater’s “BrouHaHa,” Sept. 20 & 21, 8PM, Bruce Davis Theater
In this funny and poetic one-hour performance, a troupe of Victorian clowns greets the end of the world with pathos and levity. Their curiosity at the precipice lights up the darkness like a firecracker! What happens in that moment of illumination? Come find out from the multiple Helen Hayes award-winning company hailed by the Washington, Find out more »
Eli Ayres wins Visionary Award for “One Way Town”
TFMS alum Eli Ayres (fall ’16) recently received the Visionary Award for his animated film “One Way Town” at the International Visions Film Festival & Conference, hosted annually by the Film Studies Department at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington. The Visionary Award (or “Best in Show”) is given to the top entry in the festival. Eli Find out more »
Opening in the BDT, “Eurydice,” April 19 @ 8:00 p.m.
Sarah Ruhl’s contemporary poetic retelling of the Orpheus/Eurydice myth imagines it from Eurydice’s perspective. After she arrives in the Underworld, a place Ruhl describes as more Alice in Wonderland than Hades, Eurydice has a choice: to stay there with her father, in the room of string he builds for her, or return to the world Find out more »
Opening in the BDT, “On Contentious Grounds,” March 1 @ 8:00 p.m.
ON CONTENTIOUS GROUNDS is a devised movement theater piece developed from interviews with Palestinian occupants of the West Bank about their experiences of movement in their daily lives and ancestral histories. How do borders shape bodies? Borders – in the form of walls, laws, guns, language, access to information, and rigidified memories – shape our Find out more »
TFMS Statement of Commitment for The Ghostlight Project
On January 19, 2017 at 5:30 p.m. in each time zone across the country, members of the theater community – from Broadway to regional theaters to high schools and colleges and community theaters – came together to launch THE GHOSTLIGHT PROJECT. Gathering outside of theaters on the eve of the Presidential Inauguration, people joined in Find out more »
Welcome Back, Dr. Holly A. Blumner!
After a 2.5-year absence, during which she spent most of that time in the Philippines as a Peace Corps volunteer, Dr. Holly A. Blumner returns to the SMCM campus in spring 2017 and to her TFMS colleagues and students, old and new. Hearty congratulations on a leave of absence well spent, Dr. Blumner, and best Find out more »
Auditions for “On Contentious Grounds”
Jan. 18-19, 8:00-10:00 p.m., in the BDT “On Contentious Grounds” combines theater, dance, story-telling, slam poetry, and other genres. We are seeking actors, contemporary and hip hop dancers, and performers of all kinds. The audition will be run as a workshop. There are parts that are only speaking parts or only dancing parts, but students Find out more »
Joanne Klein, In Memoriam
Joanne Klein, chair of the department, professor of theater, film, and media studies, and former coordinator of the cross-disciplinary minor in women, gender, and sexuality studies, died October 26, 2016, at St. Mary’s Hospital in Leonardtown, MD, after a short battle with esophageal cancer. Few colleagues and teachers have made such an enormous impact on Find out more »
Tenth Annual TFMS Film Series: Black Films Matter: The L.A. Rebellion
The fall 2016 series featured work of three L.A. Rebellion filmmakers: Zeinabu irene Davis (Spirits of Rebellion), Haile Gerima (Bush Mama), and Charles Burnett (Killer of Sheep). The last two pictures are seminal, celebrated films of the movement, both about the Black urban experience in the Watts neighborhood of south Los Angeles. Davis’s Spirits of Rebellion is Find out more »