USF School of Theatre & Dance

USF School of Theatre & Dance

WHO WE ARE

The stage is opportunity, and it’s yours for the taking at the USF School of Theatre & Dance. Here you will develop as an artist and scholar through rigorous training in the studio and classroom. Frequent performance and production opportunities enable you to explore and excel in dance and theatre arts. The school specializes in an undergraduate educational environment where students write, choreograph, design, and perform throughout the year.


Take A Virtual Front Row Seat

USF Student Choreographed Virtual Dance Concert 

Our amazing DanceUSF students reveal their own original choreographic work streamed directly to you in this virtual version of our student choreographed concert! From ballet to modern and everything in between this eclectic concert is not to me missed. Come support the talented students of DanceUSF in this annual performance. 

Virtual Musical Theatre Cabaret-Directed by Douglas Hall

From Broadway classics to new favorites - join us for an enchanting evening of musical theatre streamed directly to your device for a rollicking good time!

Virtual Spring Dance Concert -- Theatre 1 

Dance can reveal the world around us, as it empowers the body to embracf this time we are living in and give it form. Join us for streamed dance with works by DanceUSF faculty Michael Foley, Merry Lynn Morris, Paula Nunez, John Parks, and Jeanne Travers. Bringing you a dance experience like no other.

Measure for Measure

Original air-dates: Fri, Nov 20 & Sat, Nov 21


by William Shakespeare

Directed by Fanni V. Green


Join us as motives are REVEALED, a woman is EMPOWERED and the will of the people is EMBRACED in Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure. Isabella struggles to make an impossible decision. Would you give up your essential self in order to save someone you love?

Emerging Playwrights

Original air-date: Mon, Nov 23


“Vincent Sitting in the Kitchenette” by Alex Barba

A young woman, believing to have finally timed the perfect escape from her abuser, is surprised to find out that he's already discovered her plan.


"A Slow Day on the Starship Polaris" by Bennett Preuss

Two workers with the most boring job in space discuss their place in the universe and have to learn to work together when everything goes wrong. 


“At First Sight” by Nico Castillo

Late one night at a coffee shop, a female barista has an uncomfortable encounter with her lone male customer.


“Notorious” by Margo Hammond

A daughter and her activist lawyer mother clash over the legacy of Ruth Bader Ginsberg.

DanceUSF Guest Choreographers at USF School of Theatre & Dance

DanceUSF brings renowned guest artists and choreographers to work with students in workshops and performances. Choreographers such as Robert Moses, Bill T. Jones, Alex Ketley, Maurice Causey, Ronald K. Brown, Doug Varone, Trisha Brown, Alonzo King and Jennifer Archibald regularly augment the full-time faculty roster as visiting artists for workshops and to set works on our students.

TheatreUSF BRIT Program at USF School of Theatre & Dance

For more than 20 years, the endowed British International Theatre (BRIT) Program has brought outstanding guest artists from the United Kingdom to the University of South Florida to work side by side with TheatreUSF students. Professional directors and choreographers, leading actors in theatre, television and film, voice and speech experts and top-rate designers have all been guest teachers and artists-in-residence. These artists bring their knowledge and experience in British classical theatre and contemporary theatre to TheatreUSF students.

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