Interested in getting involved in the performing arts? Faculty, staff and students from the music, theatre and dance programs will be available to answer questions about academic and co-curricular opportunities. Register via Zoom
Ten original plays—written, directed and performed by Wheaton students—will be showcased in our biannual festival.
Playwright Joyce Van Dyke, director Judy Braha, and actor Elaine Vaan Hogue talk about their collaboration on a new one-woman play featuring suffragist and abolitionist Julia Ward Howe, who asks, “What does it do to your soul if you don’t have representation?”
Calling all creatives, from every corner of the Wheaton College Community! The Theatre & Dance program spring 2021 mainstage production is entitled: The Wheaton X Series, and the subject of this theatrical experience is you and your responses to the events of our time.
Multimedia writer and performance artist James Scruggs engages in conversation with Playwright-in-Residence Charlotte Meehan about his critically acclaimed performance work, Disposable Men. He speaks from research, observation, and experience about the "weaponized Black male body" via current events and the long U.S. history of killing unarmed Black men. This event includes Scruggs sharing images of his performance, reading from his work, and a Q&A.
These one-act plays, written by advanced playwriting students in the Creative Writing Program, are presented in collaboration with the Department of Theatre and Dance, student directors and actors and other Wheaton students.
These one-act plays, written by advanced playwriting students in the Creative Writing Program, are presented in collaboration with the Department of Theatre and Dance, student directors and actors and other Wheaton students.
These one-act plays, written by advanced playwriting students in the Creative Writing Program, are presented in collaboration with the Department of Theatre and Dance, student directors and actors and other Wheaton students.
These one-act plays, written by advanced playwriting students in the Creative Writing Program, are presented in collaboration with the Department of Theatre and Dance, student directors and actors and other Wheaton students.
This semester's festival format will be adjusted for virtual presentation and will feature five-minute plays. As always, the plays are written, directed, and acted by Wheaton students.
