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Yao Chen, assistant professor of costume design at UMASS Amherst, facilitated a remarkable connection between UMASS alumna Linnea Soderberg '17 and the prestigious Seven Ages, LTD theater company in Beijing, China in October, 2023.

Lighting Designer Jane Cox won for Best Lighting Design of a play for her work on playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' Appropriate.

Is a name destiny?

It certainly seems so when you consider the work of The Anthropologists, a New York City-based theater company founded by UMass Theater alum Melissa (Fendell) Moschitto ‘03 in 2008.

When Boatwright learned that Theater alum Dawn Monique Williams was directing Twelfth Night for the company this summer (the show runs through Oct. 13), Boatwright didn’t let the fact that OSF isn’t currently offering internships stop her. She contacted Williams, who willingly made room for her on the team, and had what she calls “hands down one of the best experiences of my life” shadowing Williams as she worked. 

Fig Lefevre '17G is a trans non-binary scholar who first came to the Department of Theater at UMass Amherst as a graduate student in dramaturgy, and has now won a following among undergraduate students by teaching exciting new classes such as Sci Fi and Queer theatre. 

Elisa Gonzales is mentoring Lindsay Forauer, a theater and linguistics double major, as she takes her first steps toward a voice and dialect coaching career.

Dawn Monique Williams 11’G is a freelance director, choreographer, educator, leader, creator, and self-described lover of language, musical theater, and Shakespeare.

Meredith Aleigha Wells is a hyphenate in more ways than one: They're an actor-singer-dancer and theater-maker, as well as a disability-and-LGBTQ-rights activist who works to improve visibility for disabled and LGBTQ performers.

Radigan is one of the producers of Chasing Chasing Amy, director Sav Rodgers’ film about his complicated relationship to the late-1990s Kevin Smith movie, Chasing Amy.