Recent News

Yunina Barbour-Payne (Ph.D. 2024) has been awarded the Michael H. Granof Outstanding Dissertation Award in Humanities and Fine Arts for her dissertation: Redbones, Blackbones and Other Bones to Pick: Formations of Affrilachian Aesthetics. 

Dr. Lisa B. Thompson was awarded the The University of Texas at Austin's prestigious 2024 Creative Endeavor Award for her work The Black Feminist Guide to the Human Body, a performance art piece which presents Thompson’s research on the health and welfare of Black women in the United States. 

An excerpt from Associate Professor of Playwriting and Directing KJ Sanchez's 2024 book The Radical Act of Listening: Making Documentary and Investigative Theatre has been published in a recent article in American Theatre. In the article, she discusses the pillars (or suggestions, as she calls them) of creating documentary theatre and her experience using them to write a play about a feud that impacted her own family.

Faculty member KJ Sanchez is directing the regional premiere of her play Walden (remix) at the Mary Moody Northern Theatre at St. Edward's University from April 3 - 13, 2025. Walden (remix) also features current B.F.A. in Acting student Chandler Collins and alum Megan Reilly (M.F.A. 2007) as prop designer.