October 19, 2017
…by numerous accolades and awards, including his recent Emmy for his role as Winston Churchill in the Netflix series “The Crown.” While he is the first to admit he has had an “enviable” career, Lithgow told the students that when young people tell him they want to be actors, he…
June 12, 2014
…Minerva Nelson, Thanh Maxwell, Tonia Snee (not pictured: Beverly Bernhardt, Linsey Sala). Photos by Erika Johnson/University Communications Staff Members Recognized for Exemplary Service to Campus and Community at Annual Employee Awards When Cesar Figueroa, assistant resident dean at Warren College, learned that students at Bayside Elementary lacked basic classroom supplies,…
October 30, 2014
…and Judith Dolan, a Tony Award-winning UC San Diego professor of design in the department of theatre and dance. “Research empowers; it is an opportunity to expand one’s world view, to follow creative paths that you may not have known existed, and to deploy that knowledge as a normative force,”…
June 9, 2020
The U.S. Department of Defense’s (DoD) Defense STEM Education Consortium (DESC) has awarded a one-year grant to SDSC and the UC San Diego Mathematics Project to introduce computing into high school math classrooms.
January 3, 2024
Lisa Portes recently joined UC San Diego to become chair of the Department of Theatre and Dance. A highly regarded Cuban American director, educator, advocate and leader, Portes’s aim is to promote a new theater narrative that expands our understanding of what it means to be human.
June 9, 2016
…Tiger in Haiti,” an award-winning play by UC San Diego alumnus Jeff Augustin, ’14, which premieres during the playhouse’s upcoming 2016/2017 season, June 28 – July 24, 2016, in the Mandell Weiss Forum. This marks the first time that a former UC San Diego theatre student’s production has premiered during…
October 19, 2017
…Merritt and Lucille Lortel awards and is a two-time Tony Award nominee. He has produced set designs for theater, opera and dance productions that have been seen in every major city in the United States for three decades. “In Plain Site,” by Trisha Brown Dance Company and presented by ArtPower,…
February 12, 2016
When playwright Deborah Stein and director Suli Holum began working on the musical comedy “Movers + Shakers” in 2012, it was the height of the presidential election season and they were amused by the foibles of politicians such as Sarah Palin and Anthony Weiner. Flash forward to 2016 and another…
September 21, 2015
Arthur Wagner, founding chair of the University of California, San Diego Department of Theatre and Dance and philanthropist of the arts, has died. He was 92.
December 12, 2012
Jordan Haug, a Ph. D. candidate in Anthropology, has been named the 1st prize winner of the National Collegiate Book Collecting Contest, a competition sponsored by the Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of America (ABAA), the Fellowship of American Bibliographic Societies (FABS), and the Center for the Book and the Rare Book…
