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Photo of Cecil Slaughter, Professor of Practice in Dance
1.29.20

2020 Marquis Award Recipient, Cecil Slaughter, Professor of Practice in Dance

On December 13, 2019 students from WashU’s Performing Arts Department participated in the International Festival of Climate Change at St. Louis University.
12.18.19

PAD Students Participate in Climate Change Theatre Action St. Louis

Photo of Marisa Wegrzyn, 2003 PAD Alum, Drama and English
12.13.19

Marisa Wegrzyn (LA '03) bringing Goliath to life

Mary-Jean Cowell teaching intensive workshop in dance
12.5.19

"Creative Applications of the Michio Ito Method for Dance Educators"

Photo of Carter Lewis in front of the show poster for the play "With".
11.25.19

World Premiere of "With" by Playwright-in-Residence, Carter Lewis

Laura Alexander Bensick (LA '08)
10.24.19

Laura Alexander Bensick's (LA '08) project "Everyday Insanity" in development with Fox

Such Sweet Thunder graphic image.
10.3.19

Ron Himes, Henry E. Hampton, Jr., Artist-in-Residence featured in "Such Sweet Thunder" October 3 - 5, 2019

Senior Sophie Tegenu (right) chats Sept. 21 with director Paige McGinley at rehearsals for Tegenu’s new play, “Mrs. Kelley’s Igloo.” (All photos: Jerry Naunheim Jr./Washington University)
9.26.19

Aspiring Playwright: Sophie Tegenu debuts her work, "Mrs. Kelley's Igloo" at the 2019 A.E. Hotchner Playwriting Festival

Photo of Liam Gibb's (LA '18)
9.23.19

Liam Gibbs is published in the Journal of the Society for American Music, takes on literary apprenticeships

David Marchant, a professor of practice, tests his balance on a small tree limb at Tyson Research Center.
8.16.19

David Marchant, professor of the practice in dance, spent five weeks as "Artist in Residence" at WU Tyson Research Center exploring site-specific performance art and mindful movement in natural landscapes.

Toni Morrison meets with students and faculty in African and African-American Studies in Arts & Sciences in 1985. (Photo: Washington University Archives)
8.9.19

Rhaisa Williams, Assistant Professor of Performing Arts, on Morrison's 'magnificent wield of imagination'

Stanley Andrisse, assistant professor at the Howard University College of Medicine, delivers the Commencement address. (All photos: Joe Angeles/Washington University in St. Louis)
5.23.19

Washington University graduates its first class of students in prison