From national and international recognitions and important books and papers to explorations and performances that benefitted the Maine community and beyond in myriad ways, Bowdoin faculty enriched campus life this spring through a wide array of scholarly and artistic pursuits that extended well beyond the classroom.
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The English and theater major is making a name for himself in the world of stand-up comedy. He recently performed his latest show—Emotional Man—in front of Bowdoin students. Because the show deals with what has happened in his life, he explains, not all of it is funny.
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SOUL(SIGNS): Making Music Visible, a television special airing on PBS and streaming on WNET/ALL ARTS, is a collaboration between Deaf and hearing artists celebrating a journey of making music visible to the Deaf community as they create an American Sign Language (A.S.L.) music video for Morgan James' song "Drown."
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As people filed into the Wish Theater to watch Oceana Hangret’s capstone theater project, they were each handed a sleeping mask. After they had settled into their seats and adjusted their masks, the theater was darkened, preparing them for a live audio performance.
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After more than a decade working as a costume designer for stage and film, Lily Prentice ’10 returned to Bowdoin in 2020 to start a new job at Bowdoin in the theater and dance department.
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In Mira Pickus’s solo show, mint frappe—which she wrote, directed, and stars in—she spends a bit of time sitting at a bedroom vanity. Staring through the pretend mirror to the audience, she muses and frets about two themes that preoccupy, disturb, and amuse her character: disgust and vanity.
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Men on Boats, the theater department’s spring 2025 play, offers a destabilizing view of history as it follows the exploits of the “first” group of people to navigate the Grand Canyon via the Colorado River more than 150 years ago.
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Cottage Grove is streaming on AMC Networks as part of the channel’s “Future of Film” series for Black History Month. The film also screens at Chicago’s Music Box Theater February 19 and February 25.
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We’re excited to announce that Bowdoin dance faculty and students will be a part of the community cast for Contra Tiempo's joyUS, justUS performance at Merrill Auditorium on Thursday, February 6th at 7pm, presented by Portland Ovations.
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Through new books, papers published in journals, media appearances, and more, Bowdoin faculty members complemented their time in the classroom during the fall semester with a variety of scholarly and artistic contributions.
Read moreThe theater and dance program at Bowdoin offers students the opportunity to examine the ways in which theater and dance provoke the imagination, tell stories, create community, and challenge assumptions.
Emphasis is placed on theater and dance’s fundamental connection to the liberal arts curriculum at Bowdoin, as well as theater and dance literacy, performance skills, and an understanding of historical and social influences on drama and dance. The aim is to develop imaginative theater practitioners who collaboratively solve problems of form and content with a passionate desire to express the human condition on stage.
No prior experience is expected to participate in Theater and Dance at Bowdoin.