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Zoetic Stage’s latest offering, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time by Simon Stephens, is a Tony award-winning play that dives into the extraordinary mind of Christopher, a 15 year old boy on the autism spectrum. The play features the work of several FIU Theatre faculty and alumni. Photo by [...]

Dance Magazine, a national dance publication for over 90 years, has named FIU’s Pioneer Winter one of their 25 to Watch in 2019. Their annual list features dancers, choreographers, and companies that are on the verge of skyrocketing. Winter is an adjunct instructor in FIU’s Department of Theatre and the Honors College and [...]

Last week, over 30 theatre students from Miami Arts Studio 6-12 @ Zelda Glazer (MAS) visited FIU Theatre for an afternoon of portfolio reviews and design workshops. MAS senior design and technology management students looking to continue their theatre training at the collegiate level met with the FIU Theatre design faculty and shared [...]

Tony Martinez, a Los Angeles talent agent with Kazarian, Measures, Ruskin & Associates (KMR), visited FIU Theatre last week and held masterclasses for the BFA and BA acting students. “There are two parts to any successful acting career,” he told the students. “You have to be strong with your craft, but you also [...]

This past Friday, FIU Theatre hosted high school theatre teachers from Miami-Dade Public Schools for a day of professional development. Arts Day at FIU is an annual event that provides teachers in all areas of the arts with exciting sessions and collaborative activities led by university faculty, special guests, and outstanding area leaders. [...]

Last week, members of the Celebrity Cruises Productions team (the producing arm of Celebrity Cruises, Inc.) were on campus leading a musical theatre masterclass with over twenty of our acting students. Auri Marcus and Andrew Smithson led the masterclass helping students develop their musical theatre auditions. Nine BFA Acting students presented their songs [...]

“It’s a bit surreal, coming back home to the place where I learned about theatre,” says FIU Theatre alumna Victoria Collado. Six years ago, she was a new graduate heading out into the professional theatre world. Now Collado returns as the guest director of A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings, which kicks off the 2018-19 [...]

This summer FIU Theatre is launching The Greenhouse, an initiative to support professional South Florida playwrights with the development of new playscripts. Three playwrights were selected for one-week intensive residencies to workshop and revise a draft of a full-length play. Each playwright is teamed up with a director, dramaturg, and a cast of [...]

FIU Theatre alumna Tatiana Pandiani was selected for a prestigious National Directors Fellowship. The fellowship is awarded jointly by the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, National New Play Network, Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival, and the Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation. “I am very grateful for this opportunity to continue exploring new play [...]