Alicia Austin ’16 had never even attended a play before coming to the University of Mary Washington. But after her first costume design course, she realized theatre was the perfect fit. “It was so interesting to me that I changed my major,” said Austin, who planned to study psychology but found elements of that in […]
Department of Theatre and Dance
Class of 2022: Stellar Student Stories, Part 2 of 3
The Class of 2022 began freshman year like any other, swept up in longstanding University of Mary Washington traditions like Move-In Day, Eagle Gathering and Honor Convocation. That all changed when they were sophomores. Classes went online, study abroad trips were postponed and everything – activities, internships and volunteer experiences – became virtual. But these […]
UMW’s ‘Bee’ Leaves Audiences Spellbound
U-n-e-x-p-e-c-t-e-d. Unexpected. Definition: unforeseen; surprising. Used in a sentence: University of Mary Washington Theatre’s season-closer, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, is filled with UNEXPECTED and fun twists. In a battle of spelling prowess, this musical spells out what it’s like to be kids uncomfortable in their own skin and conveys the challenges of […]
Alum Skyrockets in Career as NASA Videographer
Paul Morris ’10 grew up recording epic space battles on stop-action film. He’d pose and re-pose Star Wars figures, capturing them with a Sony Super 8 camera that kept conking out. Now a video producer for NASA, Morris’s outer-space odysseys are a bit more high-tech. A documentary he created – from conception to final cut […]
UMW Theatre Set Stage for Law Firm’s First Female President
Courtney Moates Paulk ’92 knew she wanted to grow up to be an actress or an attorney. What she didn’t know was that one would lead to another. Or that the skills she learned on stage – how to speak in front of a crowd, how to interpret even the most complex characters – would […]
