PLU Theatre & Dance

Applications for Artistic Achievement Awards are now open! PLU’s School of Music, Theatre & Dance offers several Artistic Achievement Awards (scholarships) to talented, incoming students. Artistic Achievement Awards are offered in renewable amounts ranging up to $7,500 per year and are in addition to academic merit awards. Awards are renewable for up to three additional years, and are available to students in Dance, Media, Music, Studio Art & Design, and Theatre. Follow this link for more information about how to apply: https://www.plu.edu/theatre-dance/scholarships/ #:~:text=Artistic%20Achievement%20Awards%20and%20limited,Art%20%26%20Design%2C%20and%20Theatre.

Spotlight on… Student costume shop employees! In the PLU theatre department, there are lots of opportunities for students to have paid positions that help our productions come to life. In our costume shop, we employ students to help construct the costumes for our shows! If you’re a student and have experience with sewing and/or costume construction, this could be a great opportunity for you get involved behind the scenes of a production and get paid while you’re at it!

Student club spotlight! This week’s spotlight is on… APO! APO (Alpha Psi Omega) is a national theatre honor society. At PLU, APO puts on three completely student produced shows per school year. All three of these are directed, costume designed, lighting designed, and scenic designed entirely by students! Each year, one of these three productions is a festival of one act plays all written by PLU students. The other two productions are pre-existing plays that the members of APO propose and then collectively vote on to decide their season.

Our production of Macbeth opens tomorrow night! For this show, we had theatre department faculty members design the set and costumes, but both were assisted by students! Come see all their hard work November 9th-11th at 7:30pm in the Eastvold auditorium.

For our faculty directed productions, theatre majors and minors participate in work days to help construct sets, props, and costumes for the shows! The past two weekends, students and faculty have worked together on these work days to prepare for our production of Macbeth, which runs November 9th to 11th at 7:30pm in the Eastvold Auditorium. Come see all of the hard work our theatre and dance community has put in to make this show happen!

Consider supporting PLU Theatre and Dance for this year’s Bjug day! Any contribution helps our program and students thrive. To donate, go to www.plu.edu/givebjug then click “Give Now!” and under “Designations” find “Academics” and then “Theatre and Dance.” We appreciate your support! 🖤💛

This week, fourth-year and PLUS year theatre majors gave their Capstone presentations! The Capstone project is a culminating experience for undergraduate students at PLU. Both BA and BFA theatre majors discuss their theatre journeys in their presentations and BFA students additionally present their theatre portfolios. Congratulations to all of the theatre students who have achieved this milestone!

Our first spotlight production of the year, Off Broadway: a musical r***e, opens this Friday night! Our chair of Theatre and Dance and tenured professor, Amanda Sweger, along with fourth-year student Glen Fritz co-designed the lights for this show! To see this amazing lighting and enjoy some wonderful singing and dancing, be sure to catch the show Friday October 6th at 7:30pm and Saturday October 7th at 5:30pm!

Student Club Spotlight! Here at PLU we have a variety of different theatre and dance related student clubs. This week we are spotlighting PLU’s Dance Team! Dance Team is a student run performance club that performs in a multitude of events such as athletic half-time performances, Dance Team’s very own Winter Showcase, and the annual Spring Dance Concert put on by PLU Theatre and Dance. To learn about Dance Team, check out their website!
https://sites.google.com/view/pludanceteam/home

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Calling all current and former PLU Theatre and Dance lutes! We’re starting a social media scavenger hunt where we’ll be posting pictures taken around the Karen Hille Phillips Center for the Performing Arts, the home of PLU Theatre and Dance, and your job is to guess where the picture was taken! The first image in this scavenger hunt is posted below. Where is this in KHP? Leave your guesses in the comments!

What an amazing turnout at our Theatre & Dance interest meeting! We are so incredibly excited to collaborate with all our amazing new and returning students on what will be a fantastic season!

Season | Theatre & Dance | Pacific Lutheran University As of Saturday, March 12, 2022 the PLU campus has moved to a mask-optional policy in concert with changes at the state level and recommendations of the Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department.