School of Theater

On Sunday (Sept. 26), theater luminaries recognized achievements in Broadway at the 74th Tony Awards at the Winter Garden Theatre in New York City, after more than a year delay due to the COVID-19 pandemic. CalArtian Justin Townsend (Theater MFA 03) joined a roster of distinguished winners upon...

Veteran lighting designer and School of Theater faculty Anne Militello has been named the US ambassador for Light Collective’s Women in Lighting (WIL) project. WIL, which was launched on International Women’s Day 2019 by UK-based Light Collective, is a digital platform for...

CalArts alum Scarlett Kim (Theater MFA 18) has been appointed the Associate Artistic Director of Innovation and Strategy of Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF), one of the nation’s largest and oldest professional regional repertory theater companies.  Kim will be one of a three-person,...

The CalArts community mourns the loss of School of Theater faculty emerita Fran Bennett, who passed away over the weekend at age 84. She served the CalArts community for 36 years as Linklater Voice faculty, as well as Head of Acting/Director of Performance from 1996-2003. She retired from...

Actor Briana Venskus (Theater BFA 09) has joined the main cast of Unconventional, the upcoming independently produced dark LGBTQ+ comedy series by EastSiders creator Kit Williamson.  The series, which was developed at the Sundance Lab, is currently filming. It follows queer siblings Noah and...

The Independent Shakespeare Company of Los Angeles (ISCLA) presents free performances of William Shakespeare’s The Tempest, running now until Sunday, Sept. 5 as part of the 2021 Free Griffith Park Shakespeare Festival at the Old Los Angeles Zoo.  The cast features CalArts alum and...

Witness a story of identity, transformation, and loss in the early 2000s in John Guerra’s (Theater MFA 15) The Last, Best Small Town, now playing at the Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum in Topanga, Calif. The play had its world premiere on July 31 and runs through Nov. 6,...