If you’ve ever wanted to act or be a part of a theater production, NOW is the time! During RADIO DRAMAS, you’ll be working alongside other passionate students with exciting material, and a ½ credit on your transcript. See the full details.

Please join us via Zoom for the Theatre Department Open House to hear how the faculty, staff, and students are embracing performance in COVID time. The classroom and the stage are no longer the limits! 

Over a four week period--through text work, improv and character study—the STUDIO'62 company has crafted a new, contemporary take on the first act of Chekov’s classic play, placing the original text in direct conversation with the current political environment, as well as the extraordinary circumstances of quarantine. It was our intention to use the ZOOM platform to our advantage, rather…

Theatre Department presents Peter Matsumoto's Independent Study project, "BFE" by Julia Cho. "Ms. Cho has written an insightful, beautifully structured drama about the agonies and comforts of isolation." - New York Times. "BFE" contains descriptions of acts of graphic physical and sexual violence and portrays mental health issues in young people including depression and agoraphobia. Director: Peter Matsumoto's '20.5 Maria…

Theatre Department presents Peter Matsumoto's Independent Study project, "BFE" by Julia Cho. "Ms. Cho has written an insightful, beautifully structured drama about the agonies and comforts of isolation." - New York Times. "BFE" contains descriptions of acts of graphic physical and sexual violence and portrays mental health issues in young people including depression and agoraphobia. Director: Peter Matsumoto's '20.5 Maria…

Please join us for a discussion with 600 Highwaymen's Abigail Browde & Michael Silverstone, the creators of A Thousand Ways, moderator by Fiona Selmi '21. Zoom Link. Meeting ID: 996 4645 2587 Passcode: 080125 A Thousand Ways is a work of theatre in three parts. Conceived and created to respond to the evolving experience of COVID-19 social distancing —Part I…

Zoom event link. NARDA E. ALCORN is a Professor and Stage Manager who has worked on Broadway, Off-Broadway, regionally, and internationally. In 2019, Narda was appointed Chair of the Stage Management Program at Yale School of Drama. She has been Head of Stage Management for New York University, DePaul University, and State University of New York at Purchase. She received…

Zoom event link. Sharen Davis is a two-time Academy Award and Emmy-nominated costume designer whose discerning eye for detail has created some of the most memorable costumes in film and television. Davis received two Oscar nominations for her costume designs. The first for Universal’s Ray, starring Jamie Foxx, Regina King and Kerry Washington, and the second for Paramount’s Dreamgirls, starring…

Dance on Screen Film Festival How can the camera expand our experience of dance? In five films, we will watch together as diverse dance traditions are brought to life. Live Q+A’s with filmmakers and choreographers will reframe dance from multiple viewpoints, and bring vibrant choreography from around the world to wherever you may be. Dance on Screen Film Festival is…

Hi Everyone! My name is John Murphy, and I’m a senior Theatre Major, and I am shooting a 30-minute cosmic horror short film to complete the degree with Honors in Theatre. I would love to invite you to audition for the film via self-tape by Thursday, Oct 22nd, by 5PM. All members of the student body, faculty and staff currently…

Dance on Screen Film Festival Please join us for a post-screening conversation with director David LaChapelle. You can join the Zoom conversation if you are not watching the 7 PM or any of the previous screenings.   Here is the Rize trailer. Moderator: Dr. Shamell Bell Dr. Shamell Bell is a mother, dancer/choreographer, educator, documentary filmmaker, community organizer, and "Visionary Instigator"…

Join us for a post-performance conversation with internationally renowned theatre provocateurs Rimini Protokoll. Rimini Protokoll's Call Cutta at Home invites you to an intercontinental video conference play about outsourcing. 20 spectators join from home and meet an Indian call center worker at her home in Calcutta. During the one-hour performance, the performer shows her home, talks about the economic and…

The Theatre Department’s production program presents Radio Dramas, a series of prerecorded plays selected from Suzan-Lori Parks’ 365 Days / 365 Plays.  Student directors, sound designers, technicians, and performers have worked remotely, on campus and from around the globe, over the past two months to create a unique performance experience for our times. We haven’t let the virus keep us from making exciting art!  Join…

Dance on Screen Film Festival Please join us for a post-screening conversation with director Eileen Hofer. You can join the Zoom conversation if you are not watching the 12:45 PM or any of the previous screenings.  Here is the Horizontes trailer. Dance on Screen Film Festival is a special collaboration with Images Cinema. All films are free and open to the…

Dance on Screen Film Festival Please join us for a post-screening conversation Hosted by Erica Dankmeyer, Artist-in-Residence in Dance, and Sarah Rara, Assistant Professor of Art, with Wim Wenders, "Pina" director, and Bettina Wagner-Bergelt, Artistic Director, Pina Bausch's dance company, Tanztheater Wuppertal. You can join the Zoom conversation if you are not watching the 12:15 PM or any of the…

Theatre Honors candidate Fiona Selmi '21 presents a reading of “Dance Nation” by Clare Barron. At its core, Dance Nation is a play that explores desire, ambition, girlhood, adolescence and that imagines a futurity where young femme coded bodies are allowed to unequivocally be the best. The cast and team behind this production would like to acknowledge the difficult nature…

Dance on Screen Film Festival How can the camera expand our experience of dance? In five films, we will watch together as diverse dance traditions are brought to life. Live Q+A’s with filmmakers and choreographers will reframe dance from multiple viewpoints, and bring vibrant choreography from around the world to wherever you may be. Dance on Screen Film Festival is…

Zoom Link! The series has been established by Omar Sangare, Chair and Professor of Theatre. Zach Stafford is the newly named editor-in-chief of The Advocate, the oldest continuously published LGBTQ periodical in the world. Prior to this, he was the founding editor-in-chief of INTO, the LGBTQ digital magazine that quickly became one of the most-read queer outlets in the world…

Dance on Screen Film Festival Please join us for a post-screening conversation with director Sumantra Ghosal Sumantra Ghosal and Malavika Sarukkai, Choreographer, hosted by Munjulika Tarah, Assistant Professor of Dance. You can join the Zoom conversation if you are not watching the 11 AM or any of the previous screenings.  Check back here for the soon link! Here is The…

Please join us as the Dance Department hosts a virtual panel discussion with 4 professionals in the field on Saturday, March 20th from 12-1pm on Zoom. Joining us will be Carolyn Rock, Director of Operations at the Boston Ballet School, Erica Wall, Director of the Berkshire Cultural Resource Center at MCLA, Loren Sass, Deputy Director of Development at the Gibney…

Auditions for Spitfire, a new play by Lyndsey Bourne  Directed by Honors Candidate Fiona Selmi’21   Audition Materials available here! Spitfire, by Lyndsey Bourne is a play-thing about a group of female pilots who were secretly tested for astronaut training by a military doctor working with NASA in 1960. A historical story juxtaposed and interspersed with scenes from a contemporary, fictional…

Dance on Screen Film Festival How can the camera expand our experience of dance? In five films, we will watch together as diverse dance traditions are brought to life. Live Q+A’s with filmmakers and choreographers will reframe dance from multiple viewpoints, and bring vibrant choreography from around the world to wherever you may be. Dance on Screen Film Festival is…

Dance on Screen Film Festival Please join us for a post-screening conversation with director Sara CF de Gouveia. You can join the Zoom conversation if you are not watching the 12:45 PM or any of the previous screenings.  Check back here for the soon link! Here is The Sound of Masks trailer. Dance on Screen Film Festival is a special collaboration…

Zoom Link! The series has been established by Omar Sangare, Chair and Professor of Theatre. Robert O’Hara, world-renowned playwright and director, will speak to students about his career and work exploring sexual and racial identities. Robert O’Hara has received the NAACP Best Play and Best Director Award, the Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding New Play, two Obies and the Herb…

A presentation of a few scenes and selected work from "Keepers of Miskatonic," a film written and directed by John Murphy to complete the degree in Theatre with Honors. Drawing on the cosmic horror genre, the script follows Professor Theodore Smallchild (Woogie Jung) and Ret Wood (Bianca Arce) as they track a mysterious beast responsible for several disappearances at a…

Directed by Fiona Selmi '21 Spitfire: a Space Femme Fantasia, by Lyndsey Bourne is a play-thing about a group of female pilots who were secretly tested for astronaut training by a military doctor working with NASA in 1960. A historical story juxtaposed and interspersed with scenes from a contemporary, fictional story about Polly, a space-obsessed teenage girl and a queer…

Today and Tomorrow is a time capsule that records and enacts the experience of 2021 through brief works of digital performance. We present this era as some of us who study and work at Williams College have lived it and in the awareness that Williams exists only within the larger contexts of a region, a nation, and the planet. After…

This event will be a Zoom "meeting" style event. Audience members will be seen by the artists and fellow audience members. This event will be recorded for archival purposes. There will be a post-performance Q&A. James & Jerome (James Harrison Monaco and Jerome Ellis) have spent years combining electronic music and the art lecture form to explore museum collections in…

The culmination of two semesters of work, this presentation of the short film, What I Is?, explores the media of theatre and film the constructed nature of the self through performance. It is the story of a Creator who tries to preserve himself through his work and a Character who refuses to be contained. Written, Directed, Performed, and Edited by…

The film actor's task is to trust the director at the unique moment of "Action!", while the TV acting process is faster with less time for the actor to prepare and work with the director. In both cases, an actor must live authentically and immediately in front of the camera. He doesn't need to know the end result or the…

CoDa celebrates the end of the spring semester with a trio of dances through which a range of emotions are explored and embodied. New works by co-directors Erica Dankmeyer and Janine Parker reflect, in unique ways, human resilience in challenging times.  Dankmeyer’s “Rooms With a View,” uses Anna Sokolow's "Rooms" (1955) which CoDa presented filmed sections of in the fall, as a launchpad…

A New Summer Theatre Program - Sharing a Glimpse Friday & Saturday, September 17 & 18, at 7 PM Zoom Link Join us for a glimpse of a special summer experience. Founded by Chairperson and Professor of Theatre Omar Sangare and designed in collaboration with Williamstown Theatre Festival and the esteemed Black Theatre United, the program offered a revitalized platform…

Auditions will be self-taped.  Students interested in participating as performers should record one monologue (1 -2 minutes in length), and, if they wish, one song, a cappella, also not more than 2 minutes.  (Students not wishing to perform musically need not record a song).  Auditioners should send the audition file to Ann Marie Dorr @ ad19@williams.edu on Sunday, February 6th by 5:00 pm.  Directors may contact auditioners…

This is your chance to help create and perform a new show at the '62 Center in February. Join us for a studio/lecture course that aims to create a collaborative space of study and practice that starts with an overview of queer performance studies, its histories, and contemporary trends that leads to developing, creating, and executing a queer-embodied performance. The…