School of Theater

The one-night-only presentation of HA-M-LET, created and performed by Brazilian American performer Peter Mark (Theater MFA 17), is a multilingual, multimedia performance installation that repurposes Shakespeare’s iconic revenge tale for the Information Age. 

Actor, filmmaker and musician Ayçıl Yeltan (Theater MFA 08) has garnered three awards for her latest short film Topanga (2019).  Topanga, which was directed, edited, produced and written by Yeltan, has already won the Audience Award for Shorts at Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival in Vermont,...

This month, CalArts alums Virginia Grise (MFA Theater 09) and Kendra Ware (MFA Theater 09) collaborate on Their Dogs Came With Them, a new play about Chicanx life adapted for the stage by Grise from Helena Maria Viramontes’ novel of the same name. Ware directs the production. Commissioned by the...

CalArtians are in the lineup for Word of Mouth, a “convening of ideas, new work, and conversations in performance” running from Wednesday, Sept. 25 to Sunday, Sept. 29, hosted by Los Angeles Performances Practice (LAPP). LAPP, founded by CalArts alum Miranda Wright (Theater MFA 09), is a...

The Television Academy celebrated the 71st Emmy Awards on Sunday (Sept. 22) at the Microsoft Theater in Downtown Los Angeles, recognizing excellence in primetime TV programming and individual achievements for the 2018-2019 television season. The night capped two weekends of awards as statues...

The national suicide rate has increased by 30 percent over a 16-year period, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and a June 2019 report from JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association further finds that suicide among youths is at an all-time high. CalArts...

Members of the Themed Entertainment Association (TEA) travel to CalArts on Tuesday night (Sept. 17) for a panel discussion with the 2018 TEA Masters—professional artists and designers who have been honored by the association and their peers for their contributions and innovations to the global...