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$1 Million Gift Spotlights Lighting Design Students at The Theatre School - Newsline

Little Women at The Theatre School - The DePaulia

TimeLine Theatre's Reading of In the Grove of Forgetting | Directed by Damon Kiely

Chicago Live: Desmin Borges

TTS Faculty & Alumni Receive Five Equity Jeff Awards

Michelle Lopez-Rios on Why an Acting Degree Still Matters - Backstage Magazine

Events: Challenging The Narratives of Racisms Performance Symposium

Faculty Member Diane Claussen Shares Insight on Theatre's Survival in a Post-pandemic, Streaming Entertainment Era. - WBEZ

Engineering an Artistic Scientific Method by Martine Kei Green-Rogers - American Theatre
Recent graduate Ethan Korvne (BFA Sound Design '24) accepts one of his 2023 Non-Equity Jeff Awards. Photo by Tyler Core.

Faculty and Alumni Secure 29 Equity Jeff Award Nominations

Alumni, Faculty, and Staff in the News: 'So Many Truths': Reflecting on the 2024 TCG Conference - American Theatre

Anti-Racism in Academia: Moving from Ideation to Practice | Azar Kazemi and Dean Martine Kei Green-Rogers

Events: Dean Martine Kei Green-Rogers on Native Son Dramaturgy at Lifeline Theatre

An Interview with TTS Senior, Ethan Korvne | by Grace Archer

The Dean's Quarterly Newsletter | Spring/Summer 2024

Chicago Live: Stacy Caballero

Student in the News: Jeff Award-Winner on his Love of Chicago - Newsline

Events: Wrights of Spring

Dean Martine Kei Green-Rogers in the News: Teaching Theatre: On Teaching Dramaturgy - Howlround Theatre Commons
KiKi Layne

Chicago Live: KiKi Layne

Faculty in the News: Coya Paz Brownrigg Appointed to the Chicago Park District Board of Commissioners

Alumni in the News: Tarell Alvin McCraney (BFA, Acting, '03) Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Events: DePaul Art Museum, The Theatre School, and DePaul’s School of Music Present "Memo"

Events: The Theatre School at C2E2

Events: Dean Martine Kei Green-Rogers in Conversation with Award-Winning Playwright Lauren Gunderson at the 41st William Inge Theatre Festival

Events: Good Bits: A Comedy Game Jam

The Dean's Quarterly Newsletter | Winter 2024

TTS in the News: Theatre School's Creative Root Brings the Joy of Theatre to Chicago Children - Newsline
Photo by Marlee Feacher.

Faculty in the News: "Carlos Murillo by Caroline Macon Fleischer" - BOMB Magazine

TTS and Alumni in the News: Timeline Theatre Company Collaboration | Debate: Baldwin vs. Buckley
Tarell Alvin McCraney. Photo by Jeff Lorch

Events: Chicago Live with Tarell Alvin McCraney | February 23, 2024

TTS in the News: The Theatre School Voted Best Theater Training Program - Chicago Reader's Best of Chicago 2023

TTS in the News: Faculty, Staff, Students, & Alumni Receive a total of 14 Non-Equity Jeff Award Nominations

Alumni in the News: Leslie Sophia Pérez (BFA, Acting, '23): Learning from the DePaul classroom to the Steppenwolf stage - The DePaulia

Faculty in the News: Rachel Shteir's Acclaimed Biography, 'Betty Friedan: Magnificent Disruptor,' Earns Finalist Spot for Best Biography in the 2023 National Book Critics Circle Awards

Events: Celebrating The Fourth Edition of The Stage Rigging Handbook - An Evening with Laura Lee Everett, Shane Kelly, and Regina García at The Understudy | March 4, 2024

Events: Christian McBride’s The Movement Revisited, Featuring TTS Students | February 2, 2024

Events: MessFest 2024 | January 17th-20th at The Annoyance Theater and Bar
The Theatre School X New CIty

Faculty and Alumni in the News: Five Theatre School Faculty and Alumni have been named 2024 Newcity Chicago Players. Six were recognized in the Hall of Fame.
LaTeshia Ellerson

Alumni in the News: LaTeshia Ellerson Named Interim Co-Leader at TCG - American Theatre
Michelle Lopez-Rios (Photo by Jeff Carrion/DePaul University)

Michelle Lopez-Rios Speaks on Diversity, the Arts and DePaul's HSI Work
Merle Reskin

In Memoriam: Merle Reskin 1929-2023

The Dean's Quarterly Newsletter | Fall 2023
Red Theatre Chairs

Faculty and Alumni in the News: "Decentering Doom: A Word from Chicago Theatre" by Elsa Hiltner and Yasmin Zacaria Mikhaiel, Published by American Theatre

Join TTS Faculty Member Rachel Shteir in conversation on her latest book, Betty Friedan: Magnificent Disrupter (Yale Jewish Lives/Yale University Press).

Tarell Alvin McCraney (Jay L. Clendenin/Los Angeles Times)

Alumni in the News: Tarell Alvin McCraney (BFA, Acting, '03) named Artistic Director of the Geffen Playhouse - L.A. Times Entertainment

Dean Martine Kei Green-Rogers

Dean Martine Kei Green-Rogers named President-Elect of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education
Coya Paz receives award from Joan Lipkin,the ATHE awards committee co-chair.

Coya Paz named recipient of the 2023 Innovations in Institutional Leadership Award

Meet Theatre Industry Leaders Martine Kei Green-Rogers, Khalid Y. Long, & DeRon S. Williams at Book Signing Event, The Understudy, July 31, 2023​
Photo by Madi Ellis

The Theatre School at DePaul University awards the 2023 Cunningham Commission for Youth Theatre to Jeremy Ohringer ​


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