The 2023-2024 performance season in the NIU School of Theatre and Dance concludes with the annual Spring Dance Concert...
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Theatre and Dance presents a new take on showbiz in the 21st century
The NIU School of Theatre and Dance presents Booked and Blessed...OR BUST! a heartfelt examination of the many...
STEM Cafe on theatrical special effects to feature School of Theatre and Dance’s Tracy Nunnally
As you watch a live performance, every minute of entertainment represents hours of work behind the scenes by...
Theatre alumna Nicole Upton promoted to managing director of Ingenuity
Nicole Upton, an NIU graduate who earned her bachelor of arts in comprehensive theatre studies from the School of Theatre and Dance has been promoted to managing director of Ingenuity. Ingenuity is an organization founded in 2011 to increase arts education access,...
Playwright Ike Holter to address Theatre and Dance students as part of the Black Artists Speaker Series
Ike Holter, an award-winning playwright based in Chicago will give a guest lecture to students in the NIU School of Theatre and Dance, Friday, January 29 from 3:00 to 4:15 p.m. as part of the school's Black Artist Speaker Series. Holter is a winner of the...
South African actor Anton Krueger to serve virtual residency at School of Theatre and Dance
South African actor, playwright, director and scholar Anton Krueger will be serving a virtual residency in the NIU School of Theatre and Dance with free events on Thursday, January 21 through Saturday, January 23. Krueger is a writer and scholar specializing in South...
Audition for STIGMA: a collection of scenes and monologues with etudes and dances
Sabrina Helton, a senior in the NIU School of Theatre and Dance is working on her senior project, a performance piece centered around the theme of suicide prevention. She is inviting other students to audition to participate in the project, STIGMA: A collection of...
Dance minor Jill Belluomini chosen as NIU’s Lincoln Laureate
Jill Belluomini can gracefully conquer both a molecular dynamics simulation and a pirouette. Her major and minor at NIU—chemistry and dance—represent her two passions. As different as they may seem, to her, they’re intertwined. For Belluomini, life is all about...
Co-writer Mary Holland ’07, stars in Hulu’s acclaimed holiday movie “Happiest Season”
Mary Holland, a 2007 BFA graduate of the NIU School of Theatre and Dance is the co-writer and co-star of Hulu's acclaimed new holiday movie, Happiest Season. Holland co-wrote the romantic comedy with Clea DuVall, whom she starred with on HBO's Veep, and the film also...
Dancing Together Forward: Fall 2020 Dance Concert premieres Nov. 20
The NIU School of Theatre and Dance presents Dancing Together Forward: Fall 2020 Dance Concert with six airings over the next two weeks, premiering Friday, November 20 at 7 p.m. on YouTube. This screen dance was made in collaboration with the dancers and...
Girls and Dolls cast and crew take ‘explore the space’ to new limits
There is a certain satisfaction that can be achieved in finding a solution to a problem that you not only have never faced, but had never anticipated. The cast and crew of the recent production of Girls and Dolls in the NIU School of Theatre and Dance certainly know...
Emily Vitrano, M.F.A. ’19, Enriches World Through the ‘Art of Theater’
Growing up in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, Emily Vitrano, M.F.A. ’19, was a very imaginative child. She had lots of time on her own, creating different worlds and playing in them for hours and hours. “I was a very outgoing child and loved to make my older brothers laugh,”...