TAPS Lecturer, Sydney Skybetter featured in a piece from the New York Times:

Dances with Robots, and Other Tales from the Outer Limits - Artificial intelligence and dance may seem like strange bedfellows, but artists and engineers are using technology to expand the possible.

Excerpt: At the forefront of this growing field is Sydney Skybetter, a former dancer and a professor of what he calls choreographics at Brown University, where his students approach dance in a way that is heavily computational — like using machine learning to create ghostly digital avatars that dance along with live performers.

Halloween New Play Festival, A Festival of Spooky Play Readings & Workshops, by Brown University students.

Brown University’s Department of Theatre Arts & Performance Studies is proud to announce that Sophia Skiles has been named the Head of Acting in the Brown/Trinity Program.

As artists and scholars of different backgrounds comitted to making, researching, and teaching theatre, dance, and performance, we write to express our solidarity with all those protesting this country’s ongoing, centuries-long legacy of racism and anti-Black violence.

Rebecca Schneider (Professor, Theatre Arts and Performance Studies) in conversation with multidisciplinary artist Emilio Rojas. Schneider and Rojas will share their practice and close the conversation with a discussion about what it means to be an artist creating work during the time of COVID-19.

Lucas Baisch, is graduating with a master of fine arts in Playwriting. He will receive the Master’s Award for Professional Excellence.

We are deeply saddened to announce the passing of Emeritus Professor of Theatre Arts & Performance Studies, Don B. Wilmeth.