Professor Barb Blackledge, former chair of the Department of Theater and Dance at IUP, was awarded a prestigious 2012 Gold Medallion Award at last week’s Region 2, Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival (KCACTF) hosted by IUP.    Each year, the

The public is invited to see full productions of eight plays presented by eight universities, including IUP, January 11–16, 2012, as part of the annual Region Two American College Theater Festival, hosted by the IUP Department of Theater and Dance.

Desdemona, a play about a handkerchief opens this Thursday in Waller Hall. Directed by Barb Blackledge, this comedy provides a unique counterpoint for the women in Shakespeare’s tragedy, Othello.

On September 30, 2011, Professor Joan Van Dyke, Department of Theater and Dance, attended “Making the Cultural Shift to Embodied Voices and Virtual Selves,” sponsored by Indiana University of Pennsylvania along with Clarion University women’s studies programs.

Auditions for three major TBTG productions will be held the evening of the first day of classes, Monday, August 29, in the Waller Hall Mainstage Theater. These auditions are open to all IUP students.

The new musical Discovering Eden will be performed August 4–6, 2011, at 8:00 p.m. on the Waller Hall Mainstage of the IUP Performing Arts Center, presented by Keystone Repertory Theater.

Keystone Repertory Theater presents Evil Dead: The Musical in the Studio Theater at Waller Hall, June 3 through 5 at 8:00 p.m. Attend summer theater at IUP without fear!