Theatre & Dance
Honors & awards
6:45 to 7:30 p.m. Thu, April 25
ArtsFest Opening Reception & Welcome
6:45 pm reception, 7:15 pm Welcome
Starts 6:45 p.m. Thu, April 25
ArtsFest 2024
Multiple dates (5 upcoming)
Orlando
7:30 to 8:30 p.m. Thu, April 25
Katie Ernst and Twin Talk : Jazz Concert
Featured Artist, ArtsFest 2024
Noon to 3:15 p.m. Fri, April 26
Studio Alluvium: Studio Demonstrations
Featured Artist: ArtsFest 2024
UW-La Crosse Department of Theatre and Dance is an active participant in the Kennedy Center's American College Theatre Festival. UW-La Crosse Theatre and Dance faculty and students have been recognized at the Irene Ryan Acting Competition and received Certificates of Merit in the areas of directing, design, and stage management. Our critically-acclaimed productions of Severe Clear: September 11 from Memory to History, (2021), The Laramie Project (2018), 26 Pebbles (2016), The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (2011) and Metamorphoses (2004) were chosen to perform at the regional festival competition. Student and faculty have received numerous recognitions and certificates of merit in the areas of visual and aural cultural collaboration, directing, lighting design, sound design, stage management, ensemble cast, costume design, and more.
Theatre students at UW-La Crosse have also been highly successful in the undergraduate research competition in which grants are provided to support undergraduate and international research and creative activities. Students have written proposals and received full funding to research theatre topics including directing a production, studying theatre in London, Russia, Vietnam, India and Africa, writing a script, and much more.
