The College of Arts + Architecture is pleased to welcome these new full-time faculty beginning August 14.
Tom Burch, associate professor of scenic design in the Department of Theatre, has just returned from six weeks in Italy, where he designed two opera productions for La Musica Lirica, an intensive opera training program for young professional singers. Premiering first in the town of Novafeltria, each production traveled to additional...
Faculty in the College of Arts + Architecture are among the recipients of prominent grants announced recently by the City of Charlotte Infusion Fund and the Arts & Science Council. The funds will support the development and performance of new works over the next 12 months and the continuation of an annual festival.
Four projects led by CoA+A faculty have received...
The College of Arts + Architecture welcomes David Janowiak as the new chair of the Department of Theatre, effective July 1. Janowiak comes to UNC Charlotte from Western Oregon University (WOU), where he has spent the past seven years as professor and chair of the Creative Arts Division, following 17 years leading the WOU Theatre Department.
Janowiak has been successful as an...
Two plays by Professor of Theatre Lynne Conner were recently recognized by theatre festivals. Earlier this month, Conner’s The Mother was named a semi-finalist for the Bay Area Playwrights Festival, one of 148 plays chosen as semi-finalists from 614 applicants. The Mother, which was a 2018 and 2019 O'Neill National Playwrights Conference semi-finalist, received its world...
CarlosAlexis Cruz, associate professor of theatre and the program director for the forthcoming Master of Fine Arts in Community Centered Practice, has received the 2023 Bonnie E. Cone Professorship in Civic Engagement. Formerly the Provost's Faculty Award for Community Engagement,...
What do you get when you take a zany and imaginative poetry book for children and put it in the hands of passionate and creative theatre education students? Well, you get UNC Charlotte's newest traveling show, A Hatful of Dragons.
This month, the Department of...
For 17 days this spring, Charlotte SHOUT! will invigorate Uptown Charlotte, bringing performances, installations, food trucks, interactive art and engaging conversations to plazas and venues in the center city. The annual festival aims to inspire Charlotteans with creative and culinary innovation, turning the center of town into a forum for new ideas and experiences. And for the first time,...
The College of Arts + Architecture (CoA+A) will honor six Distinguished Alumni on Thursday, March 30, in the ninth annual celebration of alumni achievement. The award ceremony will take place at 11:30 am in the Anne R. Belk Theater in Robinson Hall for the Performing Arts and will be open to the public.
Assistant Professor of Directing Laura Waringer has returned to campus after a “reassignment of duties” last semester allowed her to finally bring her pandemic-delayed production of Into the Woods to fruition in November. Presented by Waringer’s company, Wanderlust, which puts musicals “on location” in site-specific,...