Alumni News

Bonnie Cox received her MFA in Dance at The University of Colorado Boulder in Spring 2018. She was nominated for an Austin Chronicle critic’s choice award for her production Silence to Power: Dance as a response to trauma, through which she encouraged dance artists to transform trauma and societal pressures...

Lara Branen (BA, 1977; MFA, 1987) continues to direct the Boulder Jazz Dance Workshop with another alumni, Chris Harris.

Marsha (Tardy) Barsky- MFA, University of Colorado Boulder (2003), Marsha Barsky, Assistant Professor, teaches courses in contemporary dance, choreography, the Alexander Technique, and dance studies. Barsky serves as the Director of Dance at MTSU, and as the artistic director for the MTSU Dance Theatre. Barsky developed MTSU's Bachelor’s of Science...

Joy French is the founding member of Bare Bait Dance Company and is an instructor in the University of Montana dance department.

Angie Simmons is a Visting Artist at The University of Southern Mississippi for AY 15-16. She holds an M.F.A. in dance choreography from the University of Colorado-Boulder, with an emphasis in the Alexander Technique, and a B.S. in secondary dance education from Illinois State University. Simmons is former modern faculty...

Stephen Schroeder has performed with Zenon Dance Company since 2001, with ARENA Dances, Minnesota Dance Theatre, TU Dance, Nautilus Music Theater and the Minnesota Opera. In addition, he currently acts as Zenon’s technical coordinator and was recently awarded the 2012 McKnight Artist Fellowship for $25,000.

Emily K. Harrison founded Boulder-based square product theatre in 2006. Emily was featured as part of Westword’s original “100 Colorado Creatives” series and was recognized by The Denver Post as a 2011 Pathmaker, one of only seven individuals working in an arts field to receive the honor. In 2016 she...

graduated with a PhD in 2017; His full-length play, Unspoken, was the 2016 winner of CU Boulder’s New Play Festival and in 2015, received the GPTI Teaching Excellence Award.

Nathan Cooper (BA, 2007), Jessica Garrett (BA, 2005) Genevieve de Mahy (BA, 2006)-founded Baltimore’s Single Carrot Theatre .

Jessie Fisher made her debut as the female lead in the musical, Once, in June 2014.