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Three CARTA disciplines – art + art history, communication and theatre – teamed up to promote the 2019-20 theatre season. The Department of Theatre at FIU’s College of Communication, Architecture + The Arts produces four to five shows per year, completely designed, performed and built by theatre students and faculty. In an effort to provide [...]

Most of the biggest moments of Andy Señor’s life have somehow revolved around the musical Rent. The play launched his professional career right out of FIU and took him to Broadway, London, Japan and beyond. None of those experiences though were as deeply personal as the 2014 production he directed in Havana, Cuba. [...]

Last week, a contingent of 46 FIU Theatre students and faculty attended the Region IV Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival in Spartanburg, South Carolina where they presented their production of Red Velvet and were recognized for the excellence of their work. FIU was one of three universities from the across the southeastern [...]

During the week of February 3rd-7th, CARTA alumni from across all 8 departments visited the classrooms to participate in FIU’s seventh annual Panther Alumni Week (PAW). PAW is held annually at both the MMC and BBC campuses during the first week in February. CARTA invited its graduates to return as guest speakers in [...]

FIU Theatre’s production of Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure will leave audience members pondering, to save a life, would you sell your soul? This central theme unravels through various plots created by the network of relationships in this Shakespearean world.  “It was written a couple hundred years ago, but it seems to be talking [...]

Four years ago, FIU Theatre alumnus Michael Leon saw a Broadway play that changed his life – just not in the way he had hoped. The play featured a cast of Latino actors and Leon entered the theatre eager to see his people represented on stage. By the end of the show, he [...]

It was FIU night last Saturday at the Geffen Playhouse’s production of Key Largo starring FIU Panthers Danny Pino and Andy Garcia. FIU Theatre Alumni Advisory Board members Katherine Paez Froehlich and Zack Myers joined Professor Tony Galaska at a performance of the play followed by a meet and greet with Garcia and [...]

Kendall Vega is putting all her faith into doing what she loves before she graduates this December. For the past few months, her life has revolved around stage managing her final show at FIU, Red Velvet. We managed to sit down with her for a round of 7 Questions. 1. For anyone who [...]

FIU Theatre’s final show of the Fall tackles difficult issues of race, representation, and the courage it takes to challenge the status quo and tear down barriers. Red Velvet, written by Lolita Chakrabarti in 2012, tells the remarkable true story of Ira Aldridge, the first black man to play the title character in [...]

If you’ve visited or called the FIU Theatre office in the last two decades, chances are you know Marianna Murray. For the last 22 years, Marianna has served as the department’s Office Coordinator, running a busy office and helping faculty, students, and guests with a smile on her face and a calming presence [...]