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After Macalester

The Theater and Dance Department is enormously proud of our alumni. They are professional actors, choreographers, dancers, designers, directors, playwrights, producers, scholars, screenwriters, and arts teachers leading distinguished careers in major cities of the United States and around the world.

It is especially rewarding for us that Theater and Dance students have easy access to alumni鈥檚 work at major performance venues in the Twin Cities. In turn, our alumni enjoy meeting current students, and are generous with their time and their own networking capabilities. They stay connected to Macalester and often return as guest artists to our campus.

Aditi Brennan Kapil
Aditi Brennan Kapil – Writer, Actress, and Director
Adrienne Nelson
Adrienne Nelson – Actor, Dialect and Acting Coach
Faye Price
Faye Price – Creative Artist and Theatre Maker,
Gwenyth Shanks
Gwyneth Shanks – Assistant Professor in Theater and Dance,
Jack Reuler
Jack Reuler – Founder,
Kate Bredeson
Kate Bredeson – Professor of Theatre,
Macelle Mahala
Macelle Mahala – Professor of Media X,
Mandi Masden
Mandi Masden – Actor and Writer
Paul Whitaker
Paul Whitaker – Lighting Designer, Theatre Consultant at Schuler Shook
Rachel Bernsen
Rachel Bernsen – Choreographer, Performer, Dance Educator, and Alexander Technique teacher
Roy Gabay
Roy Gabay – Broadway and Theatre Producer and General Manager
Sha Cage
Sha Cage – Actor, Public Speaker, Curator, and Teacher,
Zachary (Zeej) Anderson – Independent Videographer,
James ‘JW’ Williams – Actor,

THDA in the World

  • Theater Mu and Jungle Theater’s  ran June 8th through July 31st in 2022. Directed by Lily Tung Crystal, Macalester Assistant Professor Mina Kinukawa is the scenic and production designer for this production. Jessica Chen ’25 is the assistant scenic designer for Cambodian Rock Band, and THDA majors Lucas Martin ’24 and Skye Reddy ’22 are interns. The Star Tribune recently covered Cambodian Rock Band, read more about the show .
  • Macalester Theater and Dance had a “night out” at Theater MU’s Today is My Birthday on Thursday, February 11, 2022.
     
    Directed by Lily Tung Crystal, Macalester Assistant Professor Mina Kinukawa is this production’s set designer. Three THDA majors are interns in Today is My Birthday: Alice Endo ’22, Jessica Yates ’22, and Sandy Zhao ’22.
  • Congratulations to Theater Minor Maria Arreola ’21 on her play, Floating Girls, moving forward as a National Semifinalist for the . The production will be directed by Cl谩udia Tatinge Nascimento, and feature students Rafael Viana Furer, Nora Monta帽ez Patterson, Gretta Marston-Lari, Roon Mahboub, Kalala Kiwanuka-Woernle, Isabel Conde, and Seth Patterson.
  • "Gretta Marston"Gretta Marston-Lari ’21 is a Miranda Fellow.  is a distinct 2 year fellowship from Lin-Manuel Miranda and the Miranda Family for emerging artists of color who have exhibited exceptional passion, drive, and unique points of view in various artistic mediums and are actively working to expand their professional development.
  • Miranda Rose Hall is one of 20 recipients of the 2020 , given by the Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust to celebrate and support early-to-mid-career playwrights.
  • Elliot Wareham ’21 and Gretta Marston-Lari ’21 were accepted to be part of a National Science Fund research project with two visiting professors in the Environmental Studies department at Mac, titled “Power in Puerto Rico: Sociotechnical Imaginaries, Infrastructure Publics, and Electricity.”
  • THDA MSFEO professor Harry Waters Jr. is the co-director of , taking the place of the annual puppet show. This installation held space for death, loss, grief, ancestors and remembering centered on the changes on Lake Street.
  • Congratulations to THDA Minor Mai Moua Thao ’22 on being accepted to the ! Mai was selected to be one of eight students across the US that will be working to develop each other’s digital-media art within this program.
  •   Theater artist and THDA professor Harry Waters Jr. created Outside Voices, a ritual of release during COVID and George Floyd crucibles
  • Under the two-year deal, actress and playwright Danai Gurira ’01 will develop, write, and produce for the studio across all platforms!
  • After the Long Silence: Cl谩udia Tatinge Nascimento’s published book | February 2020  After the Long Silence: The Theater of Brazil’s Post-Dictatorship Generation is Cl谩udia Tatinge Nascimento’s newest book, published by Routledge for their Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies.
  • A Day in the Life of Ruby | October 2019 | Ruby Rich ’23 takes us through a typical day in her life, including Rocky Horror rehearsal.
  • sarah Bellamy | THDA 日韩精品ing Assistant Professor and Penumbra Theatre Artistic Director Sarah Bellamy shares her journey into leadership and her hopes that future generations will no longer have to “argue for theaters of color.”
  • | Macalester alum Danai Gurira ’01 appears on Jimmy Kimmel show to talk about her upcoming cinematic projects, Avengers and Walking Dead.
  • | The World Premiere of HIDDEN HEROES has two Macalester connections. It’s based on the book “Hidden Human Computers: The Black Women of NASA,” co-written by American Studies prof. Duchess Harris. The play is written by Sh谩 Cage, who graduated from Macalester in 1995.
  •   | Minnesota Jewish Theatre Company certainly picked the right man to direct with (Theater and Dance Prof. MSFEO) Harry Waters Jr.