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The 2019 MAP Fund has awarded FIU faculty member, Pioneer Winter, with a grant for his Birds of Paradise performance project.  Birds of Paradise is a new ensemble-driven performance work by Pioneer Winter Collective, enacted in the form of a tropical militia. “It interrogates agency, power, celebration, and rage through a lens that [...]

This summer, FIU Theatre will host the Latinx Theatre Commons Regional Convening (“Miami in Motion!”) July 12-14, 2019. Miami in Motion! will gather artists, scholars, administrators, and advocates from the Miami Latinx Theater community and beyond to share work and methodologies, and to experience the vibrant and varied forms of storytelling illuminating the abundant creative [...]

THE GREENHOUSE is a play development program at FIU Theatre supporting South Florida playwrights. Three playwrights were selected for one-week intensive residencies in the summer to workshop and revise a draft of a full-length play. A director, a dramaturg, and age-appropriate actors will work with the playwright. The week will culminate in a public reading [...]

Luis Castany never felt more at home than when he was enjoying the arts. A patron of FIU Theatre for over 25 years, he saw countless plays and witnessed the growth of the department. Luis Castany before a performance of Dancing at Lughnasa at FIU Theatre. When he passed away late last year, [...]

On May 1st, Natalia Quintero-Riestra (“QR”) will walk across the stage, shake President Rosenberg’s hand, and officially graduate with a BFA in Acting from FIU Theatre. She leaves on a high note, having written and performed a wildly successful senior project on Victoria Woodhull and now taking the stage as Masha in The [...]

It’s New Year’s Eve 1957 and you walk into a rocking Club Náutico in Varadero, Cuba. A server hands you a drink as you join the crowded dance floor, moving to the irresistible sounds of the live band. Suddenly, the revelry is interrupted by whispers spreading throughout the club – Fidel Castro’s revolutionaries [...]

Wayne E. Robinson, Jr. is one of FIU Theatre’s most cherished professors, having been a faculty member since its early days. Robinson, a man loves to find humor in the darkest of times, is directing The Suicide, the final show of the 2018-2019 season. We were able to sit down with him before [...]

Born and raised in South Florida, Teddy Ramon is a girl “who speaks softly and carries a big stick.” Ramon, who loves architecture, history, and playwriting, is currently Prop Master for The Suicide. We were able to talk to her during crunch time to get to know her better and what she was [...]