Tracy Nunnally, Technical Director/Head of Design and Technology in NIU's School of Theatre and Dance was recently...
Theatre and Dance News Archives
SoTD alumni J. Nicole Brooks and Matthew C. Yee to be interviewed by Stephen Colbert as part of Lookingglass Theatre’s Lunch Show, June 16
A pair of NIU School of Theatre and Dance alumni will be interviewed by CBS' The Late Show host Stephen Colbert, as...
The Rite of Spring highlights this year’s Spring Dance Concert
The spring semester programming in the NIU School of Theatre and Dance ends, fittingly, with Igor Stravinsky's "The...
NIU dancers have arrived in Washington DC
Eleven students from NIU's dance program have arrived in Washington DC to perform in the National College Dance Festival at the Kennedy Center for the Arts this weekend. The dancers qualified for NCDF with their performance of "ENUF," an...
Theatre and Dance’s Tracy Nunnally featured in ESTA’s Protocol Magazine
A first-person account of the importance of combining experience in the field with the Entertainment Technician Certification Program (ETCP) highlights an article written by Tracy Nunally, Head of Design and Technology at NIU's School of Theatre and Dance. Nunnally...
Theatre and Dance’s Brandon Wardell nominated for 2018 Jeff Award
NIU School of Theatre and Dance Associate Professor Brandon Wardell has been nominated for a Joseph Jefferson Award in the category of lighting design for his work in the Steep Theatre production of "Lela and Co." The Non-Equity Jeff Awards recognize outstanding...
New course in Applied Theater for majors and non-majors alike
Love theater? Do you think theater is healing, helpful, fun, engaging and has a lot to offer all types of people? Afraid of the struggle to make a living with theater? Want to learn how you can use theater in tons of other industries? Then come sign up for Applied...
School of Theatre and Dance presents Abbey Fenbert’s “Intentions”
The Northern Illinois University School of Theatre and Dance’s upcoming production of Intentions, written by Abbey Fenbert, is a contemporary and uproarious fast-paced comedy capturing the ethos of living deliberately and fighting typical twentieth century corrupt...
The story behind the dance that sent NIU to the Kennedy Center
Students from the NIU Dance program performed at the Central Conference of the American College Dance Association (ACDA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on March 17-18. Their performance was of such high quality that they earned the top honor...
NIU dancers invited to perform at the Kennedy Center
The weekend of March 17-18 students from the NIU Dance Program attended the Central Conference of the American College Dance Association (ACDA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The students performed "ENUF," a work choreographed by NIU School of...
NIU is where Joe Minoso learned to learn, and how to follow his calling
Brooklyn born actor Joe Minoso has played firefighter Joe Cruz on NBC's hit series Chicago Fire for the past six seasons. He credits his career success to a fateful decision to come to DeKalb to earn his Master of Fine Arts in Acting. "NIU is almost single-handedly...
Huskie Spotlight: Alex Gelman, Director, School of Theatre and Dance
Alex Gelman, Director of the NIU School of Theatre and Dance is featured in a recently published Huskie Spotlight. In nearly 16 years as director of NIU’s School of Theatre and Dance in the College of Visual and Performing Arts, Alex Gelman has created near-perfect...