The Cornell PMA Performance and Events Committee is proud to present the following list of PMA Performances and Events scheduled for 2017–18. We look forward to seeing you in our audiences and working with you on our stages, in our production shops, and in our classrooms in what will be an exciting and challenging year of making and experiencing art through performance.
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2017–2018 Performances and Events CalendarFall 2017Theatre
Festival 24
Produced by Irving Torres-Lopez '18
Flex Theatre
August 26
The Caucasian Chalk Circle by Bertolt Brecht
Directed by associate professor Beth Milles
Supported with a grant from the Cornell Council for the Arts
Kiplinger Theatre
September 21–23
10-Minute Playfest
Produced by PhD student Samuel Blake and Julia Dunetz '19
Black Box Theatre
September 28–29, October 1
Bad Jews by Joshua Harmon
Produced by Alissa Jaquin '18
Directed by Julia Dunetz '19
Black Box Theatre
November 2–4
Hamlet Wakes Up Late by Mamduh Adwan
Translated by Margaret Litvin
Adapted and directed by assistant professor Rebekah Maggor
Cosponsored by the Society for the Humanities
Flex Theatre
November 10–11, 16–18
Climates of Change
Co-directed by associate professor Sara Warner and senior lecturer Godfrey L. Simmons, Jr.
Funded by a grant from Engaged Cornell
Film Forum
December 1–4
Film and Media
Dr. Aymar Jean Christian, Assistant Professor of Communication at Northwestern University and Founder of OpenTV
Cosponsored by the American Studies Program; Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program; and South Asia Program
Film Forum
September 14
Voices & Visions in Contemporary Black Media
Coordinated by assistant professor Samantha Sheppard
Film Forum
October 19: Dr. Kristen Warner, Associate Professor at the University of Alabama
November 14: Dr. TreaAndrea Russworm, Associate Professor at UMass-Amherst
Dance
Mini Locally Grown Dance
Directed by senior lecturer Byron Suber
Class of ’56 Dance Theatre
November 30–December 2
Conference
Escape from the Archive: Encountering History through Performance and Theater
Coordinated by PhD students Caitlin Kane and Erin Stoneking
Featuring
Soyica Diggs Colbert (Georgetown University)
Leigh Fondakowski (Tectonic Theatre Project)
Kelli Simpkins (Tectonic Theatre Project)
Film Forum
October 28–29
Spring 2018
Theatre
Festival 24
Produced by Irving Torres-Lopez '18
Flex Theatre
January 27
Performance Encounters with Erin Markey and Becca Blackwell: We Tried to Stop and We Can’t
Coordinated by assistant professor Karen Jaime
Cosponsored by the Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program
Class of ’56 Dance Theatre
March 9
Current | Corriente
Written by Irving Torres-Lopez '18
Black Box Theatre
March 15–17
The Loneliness Project (AGIT Lab)
Co-written & co-directed by PhD student Caitlin Kane, Reed Motz, Al Evangelista & Kelli Simpkins
Black Box Theatre
April 19–21
Mr. Burns: A Post-electric Play
Directed by PhD student Jayme Kilburn
Cosponsored by the Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program
Kiplinger Theatre
April 27–28, May 4–5
Film and Media
Filmmaking + Social Justice
Coordinated by assistant professor Dehanza Rogers
TBA
Centrally Isolated Film Festival
Faculty Advisor: associate professor Sabine Haenni
Film Forum
April 13–14
Dance
Locally Grown Dance
Directed by senior lecturers Byron Suber and Jumay Chu
Kiplinger Theatre
March 1–3
containment: defining boundaries, activating outbreak
Choreographed by Danielle LaGrua '18
Class of ’56 Dance Theatre
May 3–5
Competition
Heermans-McCalmon Dramatic Writing Competition
Coordinated by director of productions & events Pamela Lillard
Class of ’56 Dance Theatre
March 23
