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The University of Colorado at Boulder (CU) offers its LGBT students and faculty a safe space providing gender identity support and education through its Gender & Sexuality Center. The center offers a safe and supportive space of inclusion advocacy and social justice. Their ethos is to observe and embrace student...

2018 True West Awards Actor’s reinvention as a playwright is hope for anyone wanting to transition to a larger artistic life. It can be done. Spectacularly. You could say Jessica Austgen’s reinvented life came full circle in 2018 – if that circle were the shape of a heart. The boldest...

2019 Beverly Sear’s Graduate Student Research Grant Recipients Congratulations to our two dance and one theatre graduate student who recieved research grants. Danielle Garrison for Ethered and Tethered: A liminial Space, an internation MFA thesis concert event Leah Woods for Bodies of War: Dance in the Wake of Collective Tragedy...

Chloe Olewitz : January 2, 2019 Chloe wrote: К. Woodzick is a multi-hyphenate creative wonder. They are an actor, director, writer, editor, producer, podcaster, marketer, feminist, and activist, for a start, but if that’s too much of a mouthful, you can just call them a theatrical mustang. Woodzick is quoted...

Check out research that one of our dancers, Maddie King, is working on here at CU! Snipits from the article By Trent Knoss: Keplinger said. “The devices reproduce the adaptability of an octopus arm, the speed of a hummingbird and the strength of an elephant.” "The robots, formally known as...

Reza Mirsajadi, PhD candidate at Tufts University, was a distinguished guest lecturer for our graduate Global Ancient and Classical Theatre course this fall. He presented his research on contemporary Iranian theatre and its use of the Western canon as well as a presentation on the history and contemporary status of...

[Beth's] working with JeffCo school district now to have them adopt this show as a 12-session curriculum for 4 th grade (with the understanding that it could be adjusted for other grades too), standards-based. It is being piloted at Stober Grade School this spring and will be performed for their...

Published: Nov. 7, 2018 The annual Chancellor’s Employee of the Year Award is presented to CU Boulder staff in recognition of and appreciation for exceptional job performance and remarkable contributions to the campus community. Recipients of this distinguished award join a rich heritage of past awardees who display outstanding performance,...

Exerpts from Kenna Bruner 's article from Dec. 3, 2018 When Emmy-nominated screenwriter Leigh Fondakowski asked why there wasn’t an online database of audition materials for transgender performers, K. Woodzick jumped at the opportunity to create such a resource for people who do not identify as male or female. Woodzick,...

Fahmy (back row, far right) joins young the women’s vocal empowerment group in Boulder in 2017. Photo courtesy of Beth Osnes. By Jeff Thomas • Published: Dec. 3, 2018 When Sarah Fahmy, a master’s candidate in theatre and performance studies at the University of Colorado Boulder, returned to her native...