Graduate Theatre Alumni News

Amanda Rose Villarreal came to CU Boulder’s Theatre and Performance Studies PhD program with a decade of teaching and immersive performance experience. During her coursework in this program, she began to develop new approaches to her work both in the classroom and in performance, fueling her dissertation research. While at...

My play "Dark Twist" has been published by Next Stage Press. "The Sugar Ridge Rag" will be produced by the LAB Theater Project of Tampa, Florida, April 28-May 15, 2022. Since graduation I have written over fifty plays of various length ranging from one-minute to full-length, including "Can't Live Without...

The CU Department of Theatre & Dance had a super strong showing at the American Society for Theatre Research in San Diego from October 21-24th. Several recent alumni attended, including Jashodhara Sen (currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Florida) and Amanda Rose Villarreal (Assistant Professor at California...

When Deric McNish came to CU Boulder’s PhD program in Theatre & Performance Studies he was given his first teaching position in an Acting for Non-Majors course. His experience in the classroom inspired his dissertation topic, training methods for student-actors with disabilities in college courses, after he discovered how few...

Jashodhara Sen is thrilled to join the School of Theatre and Dance at the University of Florida as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Theatre Studies/Performance Studies. Currently, she is teaching undergraduate theatre history and graduate seminar and theatre history/literature/criticism courses while serving on two committees, Indigenous Relations Working Group and...

Turning Education Abroad Lessons into Real Global Impact By Rachel Kois (Global Buff, Entrepreneurship & Empowerment Global Seminar (EESA) , Summer 2015) While studying at CU Boulder, I knew I wanted to find a way to go abroad as part of my college experience. Though as a double major in...

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.