NEWS & EVENTS

Please join Professor Esther Kim Lee’s lecture on her award-winning book, Made-Up Asians: Yellowface During the Exclusion Era (University of Michigan Press, 2022). Her book offers an extensive examination of the practice of yellowface as a historical way through which non-Asian performers portrayed Asian characters in theater, film, and media. SPONSPORED BY: Hightower Fund, Asian…

Kareem Khubchandani (any pronouns) is Associate Professor of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies at Tufts University. He is the author of Ishtyle: Accenting Gay Indian Nightlife (University of Michigan Press, 2020), which received the 2019 CLAGS: Center for LGBTQ Studies Fellowship award, the 2021 Dance Studies Association de la Torre Bueno best book award, and…

Kimberly Belflower will adapt her Tony-nominated Broadway play, while stage star Sadie Sink will executive produce. Read the rest of the Hollywood Reporter article here.

Assistant Professor of Dramatic Writing Kimberly Belflower’s play John Proctor is the Villain opened at Broadway’s Booth Theatre on April 14, 2025 to enthusiastic reviews, the production ultimately tying for most-Tony-nominated production of the season and winning two Drama Desk awards. Read the full articles here:

Playwright and theater alum, Lauren Gunderson, delivers an engaging meditation on theater for young audiences for the Huffington Post: How Theater for Young People Could Save the World “…so much of the toxicity in this world comes from a collective draining of empathy. We don’t understand each other, and we don’t want to. But theater…

“Under the leadership of director Janice Akers, along with choreographers and Dance Program faculty Lori Teague and George Staib, a company of 16 professional and student actors, dancers and writers take on the notion of why we take risks and sometimes follow what might be perceived as reckless impulses.” Read the full Q&A with director…

March 2014 “A darkened theater. Spotlights shine on five people—a scientist, a dancer, a performance artist, a provost, a director. The topic under consideration: risk.” Read the full article here.

Theater Emory alum, Jim Sarbh, sat down with the Mumbai Mirror to discuss his education at Emory, the fear of type-casting, and how art is hardwired in his brain. Read the article here

Feb. 4, 2014 “U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey adapts “Native Guard,” her Pulitzer Prize-winning collection of poetry for the stage Friday, Feb. 7 at 7 p.m. in the theater lab of the Schwartz Center for Performing Arts. Trethewey is the Robert W. Woodruff Professor of English and Creative Writing and director of the Creative Writing Program at Emory…