Auditions for Striptease (by Slawomir Mrozek) and Catastrophe (by Samuel Beckett) will be held for one night only on Wednesday, January 20, from 7:00-9:30 p.m. in the Bruce Davis Theater, MH. To audition, please prepare a 1-2 minute comic monologue of your choosing (a memorized piece is preferable to a cold reading), and sign up Find out more »
Archives for 2015
“Speaking of Race” (reprise), a single evening performance, Thurs., Jan. 28, 8 PM, Bruce Davis Theater. Free and open to the public
The Department of Theater, Film, and Media Studies and director Joanne Klein are proud to reprise “Speaking of Race” for a single evening performance in the Bruce Davis Theater, Montgomery Hall, on Thursday, January 28, starting at 8 PM. Originally produced as a lunchtime performance series, “Speaking of Race” brings together the original SMCM student Find out more »
Tyrone (Ty) Wilson Joins SMCM’s TFMS Department
In January-February 2016, actor Tyrone (Ty) Wilson will be performing in the Oregon Shakespeare Festival-Arena Stage co-production of Lynn Nottage’s new play, Sweat, in Washington, D.C. After Sweat closes its run on February 21, Tyrone will join SMCM’s TFMS department for the month of March. While in residency, Ty will perform the mute role of Find out more »
Crossroads: On Common Ground opens Wed., Nov. 18, runs through Sun., Nov. 22, Bruce Davis Theater, Montgomery Hall, $
CROSSROADS 2015 will retain a focus on the local natural, cultural, and historical environment – the literal and metaphoric paths, or ground, we walk – and will use music, dance, poetry, humor, and drama in exploring dynamic intersections of identity and power in our institutional history and in this age of selfies and social media. Find out more »
Speaking of Race (a lunchtime performance series), Oct. 15 & 28, Nov. 10, 12:15 p.m., Aldom Lounge, Campus Center
In “Speaking of Race,” a lunchtime performance series produced by the Department of Theater, Film, and Media Studies, students and members of the SMCM community express their understandings of race, ethnicity, and identity in an original series of monologues sharing powerful feelings and experiences. Performances take place at 12:15 p.m. in Aldom Lounge, Campus Center Find out more »
Auditions for Crossroads: On Common Ground 2015, Sept. 18, 3-5 p.m.
Auditions for our first main stage show of the year, “Crossroads: On Common Ground 2015,” will be held on Friday, September 18, 3:00-5:00 p.m. in the Bruce Davis Theater, MH. To audition, please prepare a 1-2 minute monologue or poem of your choosing. (A memorized piece is preferable to a cold reading.) Sign up for Find out more »
Eighth Annual TFMS Film Series: Hybrid Documentary: Enacting Actuality
Where does documentary end and fiction begin? For the fall 2014 film series, three documentarians – Joshua Oppenheimer, Lynne Sachs, and Terence Nance – presented work that blurred the boundaries between documentation and enactment in an emerging form of documentary practice known as “hybrid documentary.” “The notion of cinema ‘blurring the boundaries’,” British cineaste Luke Find out more »
TFMS London Study Tour 2015
Take in the sights and sounds of the TFMS London Study Tour! In March 2015, film/media studies student and tour participant Dylan Cope (’15) shot this short film of his London experiences on his iPhone 6. Enjoy the tour! Visit the London Study Tour site
2014 – 2015 Main Stage Season
Much Ado About Nothing
October-November 2014
Exquisite Corpse
February-March 2015
Slasher, a horrifying comedy
April 2015