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“La Esperanza (Hope)” by Javier Cruz-Ginez (BA, moving-image production ’25) has been selected in this year’s Tribeca short program.

Through candid conversations, observational…

Students at Trilith Studios

Sixteen students in the Department of Theatre, Film, and Media Arts attended the May 2026 "Arts Career Trek" in Atlanta, Georgia, where they met with film and media employers and Ohio State alumni…

Dead Man’s Cell Phone
By Sarah Ruhl
Directed by Beth Kattelman

October 28 – November 6
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Hao Zhou

MacDowell, the nation’s first artist residency program, has awarded 134 Fellowships to visionary artists working across seven disciplines for its Spring Summer 2026 season. These distinguished…

Assistant Professor Rasel Ahmed's film, Goodbye, Snoball, is headed to the Ann Arbor Film Festival at the end of March.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Washington, D.C., swings…

Associate Professor Alex Oliszewski co-designed media and narrates The Survivors' Way at the Community Concert Hall at Fort Lewis College in Durango, CO. Oliszewski brings together…

Hao Zhou

The department’s newest faculty member, Assistant Professor Hao Zho, is getting recognized for his work in documentary filmmaking.

“Ru Ni Sua Yuan” (“Correct Me if I’m Wrong”) is a…

We're looking for a Film and Video Equipment Coordinator to oversee the use and maintenance of the department's film and video production equipment. For complete details, see the application.

department students in WOSU studio

On October 29, students from the Department of Theatre, Film, and Media Arts participated in a Career Immersion Day at WOSU Public Media, sponsored by ASC Career Success. The in-person event…

On Friday, September 19, students in Film Studies and Moving-Image Production attended a Career Immersion Day with Spacejunk Studios, a motion graphics and live-action studio in Columbus, OH…

The National Review Panel of the 2025-26 EMOS Ecodrama Playwrights’ Festival is pleased to announce the results of the competition: Acute Exposure, by August Hakvaag (First Place) and

Eleven majors in The Department of Theatre, Film, and Media Arts attended the 2025 “Arts Career Trek” which took place in May in New York City. Students met with film and media employers and Ohio…

Associate Professor Maggie Flinn was nominated for the Will Eisner Comic Industry Award for Best Academic/Scholarly Work for Drawing (in) the Feminine: Bande dessinée…

Assistant Professor Maranda DeBusk has been named to the inaugural Engaged Scholars Academy. The academy is a one-year, cohort-based leadership and professional development…

Associate Professor Maggie Flinn was shortlisted for the Comics Studies Society Edited Book Prize for Drawing (in) the Feminine: Bande dessinée and Women.

The Ohio State University Department of Theatre, Film, and Media Arts is pleased to announce its 2025 – 2026 theatre season. Tickets go on sale in September.

The Squirrels…

The department is hiring a Post-MFA Scholar/Artist in Playwriting and New Work Creation. This is a two-year, full-time position beginning August 2025.

Accepting applications…

After graduating from Ohio State in 2017 with a BA in Theatre, Zachry J. Bailey (center in photo) attended the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale, where he earned an MFA in stage management…

The Ohio State University Department of Theatre, Film, and Media Arts is pleased to announce the autumn shows in its 2025 – 2026 theatre season. (Spring titles will be announced when rights are…

Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures and Professor of Theatre, Film, and Media Arts (by courtesy) Yana Hashamova has been…

Beth Kattelman with puppet

Dr. Beth Kattelman (Professor of University Libraries and Theatre, Film, and Media Arts (by courtesy) and Curator of the Theatre Research Institute) has been awarded a Greater Columbus Arts…

The department is hiring a narrative filmmaker at the rank of assistant professor. This faculty member will lead undergraduate narrative production classes focusing on visual storytelling…

The Ohio State University Department of Theatre, Film, and Media Arts is pleased to announce its 2024 – 2025 theatre season.

August Wilson's Seven Guitars

Guest Directed by Terrence…

The National Academy of Television Arts Ohio Valley Regional College Student Production Awards selected Gibson Davis (BA, moving-image production '24) as the winner of a student…

Dinner at the House of Odysseus by Stratos E. Constantinidis offers a new and different treatment of Homer’s familiar epic tale about the Second Trojan War and its…

Lecturer Scott Spears Wins Emmy

Lecturer Scott Spears along with Christina Paolucci won an Emmy in the Documentary--Historical/Nostalgia category for A Higher Law: The Oberlin-Wellington Rescue of 1858. They received…

Professor Mandy Fox Featured in Sumerian Six

Professor Mandy Fox is featured as the voice of The Chemist in Sumerian Six, a new video game from Artificer and Devolver Digital. A real-time tactical stealth adventure…

Students visiting Nickelodeon

A group of department undergraduate students attended the 2nd Annual Arts Industry Trek to Los Angeles where they met with executives and alumni at Buck Design, Warner Bros. Animation, Amazon MGM…

Idris Goodwin

Idris Goodwin, artistic director of the Seattle Children’s Theatre is the 2024 recipient of the Margo Jones Award.

The annual award honors "that citizen-of-the-theatre who…

Laura Podalsky

Professor Laura Podalsky was named Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor.

Linda Mizejewski

Professor Linda Mizejewski received the Ratner Distinguished Teaching Award.

Lord Denney's Players Named Program of Excellence

The Office of Outreach and Engagement named Lord Denney's Players a Program of Excellence in Engaged Scholarship. To support and promote high-impact engaged scholarship, the Office of Outreach and…

Dana Renga and Tom Dugdale

Associate Professor Tom Dugdale received the Ratner Distinguished Teaching Award.

Associate Professor Kevin McClatchy (MFA, '12) has been named The Ohio State University Artist Laureate.

The new home of The Ohio State University's Department of Theatre, Film, and Media Arts was celebrated on April 6th with an open house and speeches by university and college leaders.

Moving-Image Production Major Maddie McSteen won the Ohio Student Film Award for her documentary In English, & Then Spanish at the 51st Athens International Film + Video Festival.

Gabriela Trigo-McIntyre

Doctoral student Gabriela Trigo-McIntyre is one of the 2023-24 Graduate Associate Teaching Award (GATA) recipients. This award is the premier award for creating excellence in teaching at the…

Two alumni and three current undergraduate majors have work screening at the Athens International Film + Video Festival on April 12th: Rory Klein (BA, moving-image production; political science, …

Linda Taylor

Linda D. Taylor is screening her documentary Champions Together: An Anat Baniel Method NeuroMovement Practitioner Works with Special Needs Children and Their Parents on Friday, February…

Rasel Ahmed

Assistant Professor Rasel Ahmed was elected to the Board of Directors of Amnesty International, USA on Friday, December 1st. The Nomination Committee identified Ahmed as a potential…

Esther Kim Lee speaking at ASTR

Esther Kim Lee (PhD, '00) received the Distinguished Scholar Award from the American Society for Theatre Research at its annual conference in Rhode Island. The award is given each year to a…

Sophie Barbour (BA, film studies; English '21) is interviewed in Film Matters Magazine about her article "Divines and the Constructed Self" (Film Matters, Volume 13, Issue 1,…

Rory Klein

Alum Rory Klein (BA, moving-image production; political science '23) has been selected for the Chagrin Documentary Film Festival. Klein created his short film, World Between Our Ears (co…

The department is hiring a Recording Studio Engineer to oversee the daily operations of the recording studio and sound mix/screening room. This is a new position within the department to support…

Sherée Greco

Production Manger Sherée Greco is featured in an Ohio State Alumni Magazine article on mentoring. The piece focuses on her and Zach Bailey (BA, theatre '17) who is currently an assistant…

Esther Kim Lee (PhD, theatre '00), Frances Hill Professor of Theater Studies, International Comparative Studies, and History and Director of Asian American and Diaspora Studies at Duke University…

The department is hiring a Video Equipment Coordinator to manage and maintain our film and video equipment, including equipment check-out for our Moving Image Production courses.

Accepting…

The Wexner Center for the Arts is presenting Scrap Heap, Associate Professor Kevin McClatchy's one-man show about a US Army Special Forces veteran transitioning from military to civilian…

The Columbus Museum of Art is hosting a loop-based film performance by Professor Roger Beebe. Lineage is a loop-based film performance for four 16mm projectors using Norman McLaren's…

Bonnie Milligan (BA, theatre '06) won the 2023 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for her performance in Kimberly Akimbo. Kimberly Akimbo features a book and…

Stratos E. Constantinidis

Professor Stratos E. Constantinidis' essay, "Playing the Persian Queen" appears in Building Embodiment: Integrating Acting, Voice, and Movement to Illuminate Poetic Text, edited by Baron…

The department is hiring a Sound Stage Manager to oversee the daily operations of the sound stage and media production lab. This is a new position within the department to support filmmaking…

Three faculty members within the department were promoted during this year's tenure and promotion process. Dr. Joseph Fahey (Mansfield) and Mandy Fox were promoted to professor. Tom Dugdale was…

Chad R. Mahan

Chad R. Mahan, scenic studio manager, received the College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Staff Award, recognizing staff members in the college who have demonstrated sustained excellence in…

The Ohio State University Department of Theatre, Film, and Media Arts is pleased to announce its 2023 – 2024 theatre season (rights pending), the first season produced in the new Theatre and Film…

Jeanine Thompson

Professor Jeanine Thompson has announced her plan to retire at the end of this academic year. She has served the Department of Theatre and then the Department of Theatre, Film, and Media Arts for…

Adrienne Kennedy

Adrienne Kennedy's (BS '53, DRH '03) Ohio State Murders opened on Broadway last night at the newly christened James Earl Jones Theatre with six-time Tony-Award-winning Audra McDonald as…

Visiting Scholar Hongliang Zhou successfully completed his PhD degree in China this week. He defended his dissertation (220,000 words) before a six-member committee of faculty from the Shanghai…

Jeanine Thompson and Anne Bogart

SITI Company has announced that the Lawrence and Lee Theatre Research Institute (TRI) will be the recipient of its physical archive. Since 2017, SITI Company has been developing the SITI Legacy…

Alumnus Blake Anthony Edwards' (MFA '18) play The One and Only Sarah Stonley is the development production at CATCO's New Works Festival for Young Audiences. The two-week festival …

Jessica Hightower

USITT-Ohio Valley Section announced the 2022 Ezekiel Award Winners. Third-year MFA student Jessica Hightower received the Ezekiel Award of Distinction for her scenic design of Sweat and…

Braden Graves

USITT-Ohio Valley Section announced the 2022 Ezekiel Award Winners. Third-year MFA student Braden Graves received the Ezekiel Award of Outstanding Achievement for his scenic design of Violet…

Adrienne Oehlers

Doctoral Candidate Adrienne Oehlers has been awarded a 2022-23 American Fellowship by the American Association of University Women (AAUW). This fellowship will enable Oehlers to focus on…

Adrienne Kennedy

Ohio State Murders by Adrienne Kennedy (BS '53, DRH '03) is headed to Broadway in November. This will be the first time one of Kennedy's plays opens on Broadway despite a long and lauded…

Vera Brunner-Sung

Associate Professor Vera Brunner-Sung is one of six Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) artists selected for a new fellowship program by the Sundance Institute and The Asian American…

Toni-Leslie James

Toni-Leslie James (BFA, Theatre '79) has been nominated for her 4th Tony Award for Best Costume Design of a Musical for Paradise Square. This new musical…

Josh Streeter

Doctoral student Josh Streeter is heading to the United Kingdom. His paper "The Haunted Skene: A Practice-as-Research Case Study of Nikokhares' Fragmentary Herakles Khoregus" has…

Adrienne Oehlers

Doctoral candidate Adrienne Oehlers is one of the recipients of the Graduate School's 2021-2022 Graduate Associate Teaching Awards. This award is Ohio State's highest recognition of teaching done…

Stratos E. Constantinidis

Professor Stratos E. Constantinidis' article "The Didymus-Herodicus Hypothesis: Did Aeschylus Choreograph and Perform the Puns in Persians?" was published in the Fall 2021 edition of

Rasel Ahmed

Post-MFA Artist Rasel Ahmed curated an online oral history exhibition, "Moving Memories", about the queer Bangladeshi migrants (documented, undocumented, asylee) living in the United States. This…

Congratulations to Associate Professor Ana Elena Puga, Assistant Professor Victor M. Espinosa (Ohio State Newark, Sociology), and Associate Professor Harmony Bench (Department of Dance) for their…

Post-MFA Artist Rasel Ahmed and Graduate Teaching Associate Lydia Cornett both have works in the Wexner Center for the Arts Unorthodocs 2021 Shorts. They will be screened this Friday, October 22,…

The Department of Theatre, Film, and Media Arts at The Ohio State University seeks an accomplished nonfiction filmmaker with a terminal degree in cinematic production (or a related field with…

The Department of Theatre, Film, and Media Arts is proud to congratulate Moving-Image Production majors Maya Neyman and Gibson Davis on their nominations for the 2021 College…

Adrienne Kennedy

The Dramatist Guild bestowed its highest honor, the Lifetime Achievement Award, on Ohio State alumna Adrienne Kennedy (BS '50, DRH '03). The award recognizes distinguished lifetime achievement in…

The Department of Theatre, Film, and Media Arts seeks an equipment and studio manager to oversee the use and maintenance of all film and video production equipment. See the job listing for full…

Adrienne Kennedy

Ohio State Murders by Obie winner Adrienne Kennedy (BS, education '53; DRH, '03) is receiving a lot of attention this season. In addition to being produced as part of the Round House…

Over the past three semester, the Department of Theatre, Film, and Media Arts has graduated nearly 100 undergraduate and graduate students. Congratulations to you all. We wish you all the best!

Alum Emily Jeu (BA, theatre '14) won Season 1 of the Burgschneider Challenge. Burgschneider, based in Frankfurt, Germany, supplies medieval clothing for festivals, stage, and screen.

In the…

The Department of Theatre has traditionally recognized a select group of students for their outstanding contributions in service, creative activity, scholarship, and teaching. Each individual has…

Adrienne Oehlers

Adrienne Oehlers is one of the recipients of the 2021 Graduate Associate Performance Award.

This award is Ohio State's recognition of exceptional performance of graduate students while…

The Department of Theatre, Film, and Media Arts is currently seeking to fill two positions: costume studio manager and a post-MFA scholar.

Kylie Logan

MFA Student Kylie Logan's short "Family Tree", created as part of the outreach and engagement project, has been accepted into the Ohio Shorts Film Festival through the Wexner Center for the Arts.…

Theatre graduate students have organized a three-day workshop with members of the SITI Company, April 9 - 11, 2021. Thanks to the sponsorship of four student organizations--The Graduate Theatre…

The Department of Theatre, Film, and Media Arts is offering a new minor available for students looking at careers in entertainment. The Minor in Entertainment Design and Technology …

Kylie Logan

MFA Student Kylie Logan will premiere "Free Flow" on April 11 at 5:45pm EDT.

"Free Flow" is a short documentary that attempts to destigmatize menstruation. "I think I wanted someone to help…

Scott Spears

In collaboration with the Oberlin Heritage Center and Diverse Media Zone (Columbus), Ohio documentary filmmakers Scott Spears and Christina Paolucci were awarded over $40,000 in grants from the…

Jeanine Thompson

Professor Jeanine Thompson, director of the Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee Theatre Research Institute, is moderating a discussion--SITI Thought Center: On Performance Archives--with SITI Co…

Assistant Professor Tom Dugdale is presenting NoBody There at Hopkins Hall Gallery. This interactive theatrical installation explores intimate encounters with strangers--how impossible…

Third year MFA student Connor Graham is presenting 2020 Vision: Making the Invisible Visible at the Hopkins Hall Gallery. Inspired by the COVID-19 pandemic, Graham's piece is a…

Third-year MFA students Erin Alys and Connor Graham are presenting Here We Go, a devised piece they were set to tour last summer. COVID-19 restrictions eliminated that possibility, so…

Professor Ana Elena Puga

The Department of Spanish and Portuguese is presenting a lunchtime workshop with Associate Professor Ana Elena Puga and Assistant Professor Victor Espinosa. They will discuss their new book

Nicolas Shannon Savard

Nicolas Shannon Savard received a Global Arts and Humanities Discovery Themes Mobile Methods and Practices Grant for $1,500. The award will partially fund the Trans AND Digital Performance…

Dr. Nadine George-Graves

Dr. Nadine George-Graves has been named Co-Editor at Dance Research Journal. Her selection as co-editor is a change in editorial structure at the journal, which formerly had an editor-in…

Adrienne Kennedy

The award-winning playwright and Ohio State alumna Adrienne Kennedy (BS '53, DRH '03) is the featured artist of a month-long festival entitled "The Work of Adrienne Kennedy: Inspiration and…

The New Yorker is distributing Assistant Professor Vera Brunner-Sung's short film "Character" on its website. "Character", selected for the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, focuses on actor…

Allyson Morgan

Filmmaker Allyson Morgan (BA '04) has written and produced a short film to stream on Hulu as part of 20th Digital Studio's series Bite Size Halloween. "First Date" is one of 30 diverse, genre…

Doctoral candidate John Michael Sefel’s book, At…

Vera Brunner-Sung

Please join us in congratulating Vera Brunner-Sung on her recent selection as a 2020 Sundance Institute FilmTwo Fellow. The fellowship, supported by Universal Filmed Entertainment Group, provides…

Please join the Department of Theatre in congratulating and sending best wishes to Dr. Rebecca Turk! After nine years as the Costume Studio Manager, Dr. Turk has accepted the position of Visiting…

Dennis Parker

"Dennis A. Parker, age 78 of Dayton, Ohio (formerly of Columbus) passed away on July 30, 2020 after a short illness. He was born on September 27, 1941 in Port Huron, Michigan to the late Margaret…

On June 10th, Professor Jeanine Thompson, director of the Lawrence and Lee Theatre Research Institute, interviewed Jesse Eisenberg and Lorin Eric Salm (2020 Theatre Research Institute Award…

Francesca Spedalieri

Congratulations to Francesca Spedalieri (MA, '11; PhD, '17) as she was appointed to a tenure track position at State University New York Stony Brook. Her split position is with the Department of…

Elizabeth Wellman

Elizabeth Wellman (MA, '11; PhD, '15) has accepted a tenure-track position teaching theatre history and dramatic literature in the Department of Theatre at the University of North Carolina…

Jessica Hughes

Graduate student Jessica Hughes received a Coca-Cola Critical Difference for Women Grant for Research on Women, Gender, and Gender Equity. The Women's Place, awarded $1,000 to "Far Away: Research…

Andrew Shelton

Executive Dean Gretchen Ritter has appointed Professor of History of Art Andrew Shelton to serve as the interim chair of the theatre department from July 1, 2020 to July 30, 2021.

Shelton…

Each year, the Department of Theatre recognizes a select group of students for their outstanding contributions in service, creative activity, scholarship, and teaching. Each individual has been…

The Gerald R. Black Scholarship Fund for Recognition of Excellence in Theatre was established in 1974 in memory of Gerald R. Black, a 1924 graduate of The Ohio State University. The scholarship is…

Aviva Neff

Doctoral Candidate Aviva Neff has been elected to serve as chair of the Council of Graduate Students' academic affairs committee for 2020-21. In this role, she has also been appointed to serve on…

Joshua Truett

Joshua Truett attended the American Society Theatre Research conference “Theatre’s Many Publics”. At the conference, he gave the presentation “Muxe Velas and Fiesta Queens: Indigenous…

MFA student Rina Hajra's film My Sekret War is headed to the 2020 Phoenix Film Festival this March.

The film depicts a young woman's struggle to overcome the cruelty she…

Vera Brunner-Sung

Assistant Professor Vera Brunner-Sung has received an Ohio Excellence Award from the Ohio Arts Council.

Individual Excellence Awards are peer recognition of a creative artist's body of work…

Swan Isle Press recently released a collection of Emma Dante's plays, mPalermu, Dancers, and Other Plays, translated by Francesca Spedalieri's (MA '11, PH '17).

Spedalieri is a…

Alum Yi-Ping Wu (PH '19) accepted a full-time position as assistant professor in the Department of Radio and Television at Ming Chuan University in Taipei, Taiwan. This private university with 18…

Moriah Flagler

Postdoctoral Reasearcher Moriah Flagler's article "Beyond the 'Basic Stuff': Authentic Caring and Digital Storytelling with Youth" was published in Youth Theatre Journal.

Concepts…

Vera Brunner-Sung

Assistant Professor Vera Brunner-Sung contributed a chapter, "Gained in Translation: Site-Specificity in Recent Documentaries", to Documenting the Visual Arts, edited by Roger Hallas,…

Vera Brunner-Sung

Assistant Professor Vera Brunner-Sung's documentary short "Character" has been selected for the Sundance Film Festival. Shot with the help of Ohio State students, the film focuses on actor Mark…

Kaizaad Kotwal

Kaizaad Kotwall (MA '93, PhD '00), along with his morther Mahabanoo Mody-Kotwal received the prestigious "Karmaveer Puruskar Mahartna" award in New Delhi as part of a REX and UN joint initiative…

Aubrey Neumann

Aubrey Helene Neumann received an Alumni Grant for Graduate Research and Scholarship from the Graduate School in November 2019.

The AGGRS award will go towards funding four original case…

We are looking for 15 volunteers to participate in the stage reading of Stratos E. Constantinidis' Senate Hearing, a two-act play about a U.S. President who nominates a judge for the position of…

Dr. Firman Hewitt "Bo" Brown died November 1, 2019, at age 93 at his home in Missoula, MT.

"Brown joined The Ohio State University as chairperson and director of theater in the Department…

Joseph Brandesky Named Interim Dean

Martha W. Farmer Endowed Professor of Theatre Joe Brandesky is curator for an exhibit at the Columbus Museum of Art. Permanent Interaction: Central European Paintings and Designs by Jaroslav…

Toni-Leslie James

Department of Theatre Alum Toni-Leslie James (BFA '79) designed costumes for Leah C. Gardiner's well-received revival of Ntozake Shange's For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the…

Adrienne Kennedy (BS '53, DRH '03) is featured on the cover of American Theatre. In addition to publishing her latest script, the critically-acclaimed He Brought Her Heart Back in a…

Linda Taylor

IT@OSU recently highlighted Linda Taylor and the documentary she created after taking Associate Professor and Chair Janet Parrott's documentary filmmaking course. Taylor enrolled in the course…

Arts and Humanities Distinguished Professor of Theatre Lesley Ferris has announced that she will retire in December 2019.

Ferris came to Ohio State…

In August Dr. Nadine George-Graves delivered a keynote address at the 10th Confluences Conference at The University of Cape Town’s Centre for Theatre, Dance and Performance Studies. In her talk,…

This summer Graduate Student Connor Graham visited South Paris, ME, where he studied under Avner Eisenberg at the Celebration Barn. At a week-long intensive workshop, Graham studied Eccentric…

Moopi Mothibeli

Moopi Mothibeli (MFA '12) was born in Sebokeng, Gauteng, South Africa. He graduated from the Tshwane University of Technology with a BA in Drama. Highlight performances in his early years included…

Jeanine Thompson

Professor Jeanine Thompson was recently named director of the Lawrence and Lee Theatre Research Institute (TRI), effective August 15, 2019 - August 14, 2021.

Thompson is looking forward to…

Third-year MFA student Cade M. Sikora's article on Maria Björnson's (1949-2002) designs is the featured article in the Spring 2019 issue of Theatre Design and Technology. The article, "Of…

Moriah Flagler

Postdoctoral Researcher Moriah Flagler's study, "Storied Moments: Foregrounding Community Cultural Wealth through Digital Storytelling", has been selected as the award recipient for the American…

Toni-Leslie James

Alumna Toni-Leslie James (BFA '79) received her third Tony Award Nomination for Bernhardt/Hamlet. Bernhardt/Hamlet is the critically acclaimed play about the turn-of-the-century…

Associate Professor Emeritus David Ayers passed away earlier this month. Dr. Ayers taught, directed, and performed in numerous Ohio State Theatre productions, including originating the lead role…

Aviva Neff

Doctoral Student Aviva Neff has been chosen to join a select group of students--Ohio State's Sesquicentennial Scholars. These 150 outstanding students share an extraordinary passion for our…

Aubrey Neumann

Doctoral Student Aubrey Neumann received an Outstanding Positional Leader Award during the Office of Student Activities annual student leadership awards program, recognizing her for our work as…

Shannon Savard

Doctoral Student Nicolas Shannon Savard has been awarded an Arts and Humanities Graduate Research Small Grant for work on transgender performance. The grant will support Savard's travel to the…

The Department of Theatre within the College of Arts and Sciences seeks a Theatrical Sound and Media Studio Manager and a Theatrical Lighting Studio Manager to…

Toni-Leslie James

Alumna Toni-Leslie James (BFA '79) designed the costumes for Pulizter-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks' latest play, White Noise. Directed by Oskar Eustis, recent recipient of the…

Chelsea Phillips (PhD '15) published an essay--“Acccounting for Relationships: the Drury Lane Financial Records”--in The Collation: Research and Exploration at the Folger in March 2019 in…

Jordan Booker

Sophomore Jordan Booker won a $2,000 Migration, Mobility, and Immobility Undergraduate Research and Mentorship Grant. Booker will create and produce a performance piece engaging with and raising…

Congratulations to MFA Students Sean Naughton and Erin Parsons and Doctoral Student Aubrey Neumann for being accepted into SITI Company's 2019 Summer Intensive. Ohio State students have attended…

Associate Professor Jennifer Schlueter (MA '03, PhD '07) is one of 78 artists recognized by the Ohio Arts Council with an Individual Excellence Award.

Individual excellence awards are peer…

Adrienne Oehlers

Doctoral Student Adrienne Oehlers won the 2019-20 Alumnae Association of Barnard College Fellowship Award. This $5,000 fellowship is awarded to one or more Barnard seniors or alumnae who enroll in…

Monica White Ndounou (PHD '07) is the featured contributor to the March issue of American Theatre. The essay is titled “Finding Wakanda Within: Last Fall’s International Black Theatre…

Adam West

Department alumnus, Adam West (MFA , '04) was recently interviewed for a College of Arts and Sciences Spotlight. In the interview, West talks about his career and how the department' prepared him…

Department alumnus David Lander (BA '87) designed lighting for the world premiere of The Flood, a work co-commissioned by Opera Columbus and ProMusica Chamber Orchestra. Composed by Korine…

Making Found Text Into Theatrical Events

So, you've found a 28-volume transcription of a 1920s spiritualist who believed a thwarted 17th-century authoress spoke through her. What do you do? …

Mary Tarantino

Professor Mary Tarantino, resident lighting designer and director of the Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee Theatre Research Institute, will retire from the university at the end of August 2019…

Kevin McClatchy

Associate Professor Kevin McClatchy is delivering a talk, "Playing by Heart: The Shakespeare and Autism Project", as part of the Wexner Medical Center's Clincal Arts Seminar Series, presented by…

Moriah Flagler

Postdoctoral Researcher Moriah Flagler is participating in the Interdisciplinary Methods for Migration Studies roundtable discussion on Thursday, February 7 at the Mershon Center.

In this…

“Dramatic Progress: Votes for Women and the London Stage”, an exhibition currently running at the Royal National Theatre in London, features one of our alums, Sifiso Mazibuko (MFA '15), in a video…