In the Aud

MFA Acting Candidates Sharon Combs, Abbie Cathcart, Eloy Gomez-Orfila, and Darah Donaher discuss how they devised and produced four original works based on current newspaper headlines. Final performances have been recorded and released for viewing is the form of a Buzzfeed-style news website, which can be found at www.untoldstoriesmsu.com

Members of the Second Stage organization discuss playwriting festival that was organized, written, performed, and produced entirely by Michigan State University’s very own aspiring playwrights. Watch the performances at theatre.msu.edu/spaces

A group of Michigan State University students virtually came together throughout fall 2020 to create a series of 5 new audio plays, each connected to the themes of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI).

In this episode we speak with Director Sarah Hendrickson and four members of the Department of Theatre Freshman Class about their experiences with starting college online during a pandemic and the amazing creativity that came out of that experience.

Designer, educator and Department of Theatre Alum G Max Maxin IV returned to Michigan State to review and critique the portfolios of our BFA and MFA Design Students. In this episode we hear from Max, along with students Alaina Guttierrez, Rose Legge, Zech Saenz, Grace Foiles, Nick Casella, and Mona Jahani about their portfolio review experience and why they all chose MSU.

MSU Assistant Professor of Acting and Movement and certified intimacy director, Alexis Black, MSU Academic Specialist and AEA Stage Manager Tina Newhauser, and stage manager and Department of Theatre Alumnus Chris Badia discuss the creation of Stage Managing Intimacy, a workshop that Alexis and Tina are leading for Intimacy Directors & Coordinators.

Rose Legge, an MFA design candidate discusses her project, VOTE YOUR VOICE, which will use a technique called projection mapping to cast graphic art images of voter information on to the side of the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum (MSU Broad).

Theatre senior Marshall Ross discusses a film he produced over the summer of 2020.

Theatre seniors Nate Davis & Jason Dernay discuss their new podcast The Art of Adaptation.

In this episode, Michigan State Department of Theatre faculty member Tina M. Newhauser discusses the creation of the BFA in Stage Management. And we celebrate the first Spartans ever to receive this degree... Shelby Eppich and Troy Gährs!

In this episode, we chat with Dr. Ann Folino White Ph.D., director of Bonnets: How Ladies of Good Breeding Are Induced to Murder by Jen Silverman. We also talk to two of the student actors in the show, Abigail Byrne and Zaria Aikens.

Director Deric McNish, Stage Manager and Host Bri Kubiak, and Actor Vaughn Haynes discuss the process and experience of producing Into The Woods for MSU Department of Theatre.

Freshman Showcase director and Second City Alum Sarah Hendrickson, along with students Maris Keller and Mark Zummallen, discuss using short-form improvisational comedy to help acclimate freshmen to their new lives as Michigan State Spartans and the things that are expected of them as newly minted adults!

“If music be the food of love, play on.” ― William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night Guest Director Gus Kaikkonen, actor Isa Rodriguez, and Michigan State University College of Music Composition student Trevor Smith discuss incorporating new music into a classic script and falling in love with Shakespeare.

Who will redefine gender norms as an artistic response to a changing world? #SpartansWill Frankenstein director Ryan Welsh and actor Abbie Cathcart discuss how casting Frankenstein's Creature as female completely altered their perception of this gothic horror classic.