2011-2012 Season

On Saturday, April 28, students in the Master of Arts in Theatre Studies program, participated in commencement activities at the Tallahassee-Leon County Civic Center. They were among 4,000 of 6,200 graduating Florida State students who participated in commencement ceremonies spread over two days.

Friends and former classmates’ film is one of 167 selected from 1,706 entries from around the globe.  DEAD DAD was created by friends and former FSU classmates who stuck together after graduation from the FSU College of Motion Picture Arts, heading to Hollywood, Calif., to immerse themselves in their passion for film making.

Twelve Leon County 11th grade students visited the School of Theatre at Florida State University on Tuesday, April 10  for a stage makeup workshop. The students, part of Youth Leadership Tallahassee, learned how to create injuries and bruises.

The School of Theatre’s current production of The Sea Gull, running in the Lab Theatre through April 1, is the result of a collaboration of many artists, scholars, actors, and production team members working together to bring Anton Chekhov’s famous work to life on stage. Bryan Schmidt has served as the dramaturg for the production, working with director Fred Chappell to dive into the text and shape the production.  We sat down with Schmidt to talk about the dramaturgical process for The Sea Gull.

Assistant Professor of Theatre Studies Dr. Elizabeth Osborne will be participating in the 3^rd Annual FSU Author Day on Friday, March 23 in the Augustus Turnbull Conference Center. There will be a book signing from 4:30 – 5:30 which will be followed at 5:30 by a reading from her book, Staging the People: Community & Identity in the Federal Theatre Project. The reception is free and open to the public; other FSU authors reading at the event include Joseph Hellweg, Ned Stuckey-French, and Wayne Wiegand.