Lehman Theatre & Dance

08/09/2023

AVAILABLE FALL ‘23 CLASS
ACTING II - THE 331 (filling up!)
TUE and THU
2PM-3:40PM
Professor Jennifer McCabe
Deepen your craft.
For more info: [email protected]

05/24/2023

Please join us to celebrate our graduating Theatre, Dance and Multimedia Performing Arts students on Wednesday, May 31st from 2-4pm in the Studio Theater. Friends and Family are welcome.

05/23/2023

Date: May 25th
Time: 7PM - 9PM
Location: Carman Hall, B08.

There is a screening of two short films that the following students and alumnus have collaborated on:

Maria Sanchir
Andrew Rosario
Chanel Huston
Ja-el-Lucina Dozier
Johnny Quevedo
Wilson Hernandez
Alyssa Lewis ..of Arts and Humanities.

The screenings will be followed by Q n A of cast and crew. We hope that you are able to attend.

05/22/2023

Auditions for the fall dance production, Dance in Dialog, and the fall theatre production will be the first day of classes, August 25th. Save the date! More information to come. Contact [email protected] for more information. Photo credit Cristal Rojas.

02/16/2023

Free tickets at https://m.bpt.me/event/5703482

01/06/2023

Calling all dance workers and organizations!

Your work matters. Your story matters. Make sure your experience and perspective are recognized by participating in an upcoming Dance Industry Census Roundtable Discussion in 2023.

Register today and join us in your borough! Dance.NYC/CensusRoundtables



Image: Photo of an event attendee wearing mask holding recorder. Logos and graphics read ‘Dance Industry Census Roundtable Discussion Series January 11, 2023– February 22, 2023. Are you making dance happen in NYC? Join the conversation. Dance/NYC ’

11/04/2022

Casting actors, gospel singers, and musicians for Amen Corner, by James Baldwin and directed by Professor Susan Watson-Turner. Auditions begin on November Wednesday Nov 30.

Follow the link below to sign up for an audition: https://m.signupgenius.com/ #!/showSignUp/10c0e4bafa623a7f8cf8-theamen

11/04/2022

12 days away! RSVP at:
https://www.unation.com/event/new-voices-the-student-playwriting-festival-the-10th-anniversary-12979890

11/01/2022

Please consider.....https://www.cunytuesday.org/campaigns/school-of-arts-humanities/?fbclid=IwAR2AGqqIpRGufXuEn2Itf9HfUimt3xxleefJk1EwpVPa1_3HekVRXN39pss

11/01/2022

Opening in just over two weeks! Reserve your tickets at https://m.bpt.me/event/5608305

10/28/2022

Please consider making a donation to the Lehman College School of Arts and Humanities!

"The School of Arts & Humanities keeps the liberal arts mission alive at Lehman by offering vibrant programs in the humanities, the fine arts, and the performing arts, at a very low cost. We rely on the generosity of our alumni and friends to support our students as they make their journey to graduation."

https://www.cunytuesday.org/campaigns/school-of-arts-humanities/

I’m ready to support School of Arts & Humanities on November 29, 2022 during 2022. Learn more about School of Arts & Humanities

10/19/2022

We've got Dance in Dialog this Thursday and Friday and the New Voices Play Festival next month! Keep your eyes open for the link coming soon!

10/11/2022

Behind the scenes series of Dance In Dialog. This series will be broken up, diving into both the choreographers mind and how each of their dancers are taking in the process.
Can you believe it! 10 Days till Showtime😱
Stay locked in all the way up till show day 🥳🥳

RSVP here for your tickets
https://m.bpt.me/event/5564001
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10/03/2022

https://m.bpt.me/event/5564001
Dance in Dialog is an annual series that aims to start conversations around dance and exploring the
process of making them. This year, our two guest artists are, Jason Rodriguez and Beverly Lopez .redi_iz Performances will be held in Apex M18 on October 20th and 21st followed by a Q and A with the artists and dancers.

You don’t want to miss this! Reserve Your tickets today 🏃🏾‍♀️🏃🏽‍♂️🏃🏃🏻‍♀️💨💨💨

https://m.bpt.me/event/5564001

09/02/2022

https://www1.cuny.edu/mu/forum/2022/08/31/cuny-receives-high-praise-on-best-colleges-lists/

The City College of New York is the third-best national university, only narrowly beaten by Princeton and Stanford, and the top-ranked public college in the nation, according to a new study by the education research organization DegreeChoices, which also named five CUNY colleges as the nation’s to...

08/26/2022

08/19/2022

This Sunday on campus!

Repost • This Sunday, August 21, at 1:00 p.m., in Lovinger Theatre on the Lehman Campus, the college will host an event celebrating the life of Shauneille Perry Ryder, actress, playwright, and director, and Professor of Theatre at Lehman College for many years.

To attend, please register for this event by signing up using the evite in the event notice on the Arts and Humanities calendar (in bio).

The event will also be live streamed on Zoom. To attend remotely, see the Zoom link after registering on evite. The Zoom link is also in the event notice on the Arts & Humanities calendar (in bio).

With much thanks to Lehman Stages and the Multimedia Center at Lehman College.

08/16/2022

Lehman Theater faculty member Jennifer McCabe in the studio working with on an upcoming project for !

08/16/2022

Dance and Dialog Audition
Friday, August 26th at 5:00 - APEX - M18

Dance and Dialog is an annual series that aims to start conversations about dance and explore the
process of making dances. This year, two guest artists, Jason Rodriguez and Beverly Lopez, are
the choreographers! Performances will be held October 20th and 21st followed by a Q and A
with the artists and dancers. Students can receive credit for DNC 209 after they are cast.

07/27/2022

The Lehman College Department of Music, Multimedia, Theater and Dance
Announces…

AUDITIONS! For the 10th Annual New Voices Student Play Festival

Featuring new work by Amalia Oliva Rojas, Tracy Nguyen, and Isaias Morales. Directed by Stephanie Stowe, Juan Ramirez, and Alyssa VanGorder.

Audition Details:
When: Tuesday and Wednesday August 16th and 17th. 4 – 7 p.m.

Callbacks: Thursday, August 18th, 4 – 7 p.m. Studio Theater

Where: The Studio Theater at Lehman College

What: Actors, please prepare a short (1 minute, memorized) contemporary monologue.

Please note: All auditions and callbacks will be in-person.
Performance dates, November 16, 17 and 18th 7:00 p.m. Curtain.

Please go to https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0E4BAFA623A7F8CF8-nvpf for more audition
details, important information and to sign up for your audition time slot!

Please keep in mind Lehman College is subject to CUNY COVID policy. Please see the most up to date
policy and requirements here: https://lehman.edu/coronavirus/ .en.14994

05/26/2022

Our grads. We love you so. Congratulations class of 2022!

05/16/2022

Join us for an online screening with Q&A of Born With An Extra Rib, by stefa marin alarcon!

Wednesday May 18th 11:30am-1pm

Click here to join: https://sites.google.com/view/bornwithanextrarib/home

Born With An Extra Rib: The Film is a transdisciplinary opera featuring multimedia artist and composer stefa marin alarcon. Descended from the Emberá-Chamí people, stefa is a Colombian-American musician, born and raised in Queens, New York. Emerging from the questions behind their upcoming record Born With An Extra Rib, this experimental operatic film creates a structure for stefa to reclaim and return to their body. They will use video collage, live music, and ritual performance to ask their most pressing, embodied questions. Through the production, stefa invites the cast, creative team, and audience to engage in an emergent process of collective liberation.

Through live performance, STEFA* continued to explore their relationships to Mother/Earth as a q***r trans being. In living, fighting, and surviving the fascist, yt-cis-heteropatriarchical neo-colonial powers, STEFA* reveal the beauty and contradictions that emerge in the face of destruction and pain. With lush harmonics, spiraling loops, ancient ululations, somatic jazz, and rage-pop, they channel their ancestors and guides in their complex compositions towards revolution.

Email [email protected] with any questions.

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stefa marin alarcon is a vocalist, composer and multi-media performance artist born and raised in Queens, NY.

Using an amalgamation of punk, experimental pop and classical minimalism with maximalist ethereal aesthetics and video collages, stefa builds worlds that offer a somatic decolonial respite for the misfits & displaced who are yearning for a sense of home.

stefa has shared their work/spirit/song with Queens Museum, Brooklyn Museum, Museo Del Barrio, The Kitchen, Ars Nova, National Sawdust, Rough Trade, Elsewhere, Nublu, BAAD!, The Sultan Room, NUEVOFest, Abrons Arts Center, Dixon Place, Tulsa Artist Residency, Cine Las Americas, The Vienna Festival, Power of the People Combined, Body Hack, Fierce Futures and more.

They studied euro-centric classical voice (Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts ‘07, Central School of Speech and Drama ‘10), were an Artist-in-Residence at TrueQué Residencia Artística, Slippage Residency at Duke University, a Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics EmergeNYC Fellow (2019), Leslie Lohman Museum of Art Artist Fellow (2019-2020) and most recently Artist In Residence at The Kitchen (May 2021).

Their debut EP Sepalina was released on Figure & Ground Records in 2018. Their forthcoming multi-media record Born With An Extra Rib will be released independently Summer 2022. stefalives.com IG:

05/13/2022

Join us for a healing sound bath with Guadalupe Maravilla!

Wednesday May 18th
3:30-5:00pm

Apex M16

Registration Link: https://forms.gle/utHgntzgzd6fnbTV8

Guadalupe Maravilla is a transdisciplinary visual artist, choreographer, and healer. At the age of eight, Maravilla was part of the first wave of unaccompanied, undocumented children to arrive at the United States border in the 1980s as a result of the Salvadoran Civil War. In 2006, Maravilla became a U.S. citizen. In 2016, he adopted the name Guadalupe Maravilla in solidarity with his undocumented father, who uses Maravilla as his last name. As an acknowledgment to his past, Maravilla grounds his practice in the historical and contemporary contexts belonging to the undocumented and cancer communities.

Awards and fellowships include; The 2021 Joan Mitchell Fellowship, LatinX Fellowship 2021, Lise Wilhelmsen Art award 2021, Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship 2019, Soros Fellowship: Art Migration and Public Space 2019, Map fund 2019, Creative Capital Grant 2016, Franklin Furnace 2018, Joan Mitchell Emerging Artist Grant 2016, Art Matters Grant 2013, Art Matters Fellowship 2017, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fellowship 2018, Dedalus Foundation Grant 2013 and The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation Award 2003. Residencies include; LMCC Workspace, SOMA, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and Drawing Center Open Sessions.

Maravilla has been featured in the NY Times, Hyperallergic, Brooklyn Rail, the Guardian, Art Forum and many other publications.

https://youtu.be/4OQeUMZ3jNk

05/06/2022

The Lehman College Department of Music, Multimedia, Theatre & Dance Presents

MULTIMEDIA PERFORMING ARTS SHOWCASE

Studio Theater

Wed. May 11, 3:30 p.m. & Fri. May 13, 7 p.m. - Show A

Thurs. May 12 & Sat. May 14, 7 p.m. - Show B

*Note that there are 2 unique shows. Please come and enjoy both!

https://4950.brownpapertickets.com/


Original works by Theatre and Dance BFA Multimedia Performing Arts majors:

Gabriel Agostinelli, Javier Cardenas, Mariah Castillo, Taylor Gautier, Edgar Gonzalez, Janell Hawes, Victory Ike, Simran Pal Kaur, Christopher Leo, Jayleen Maldonado, Dania Miguel, Isaias Morales, Leda Obergh, Bethany Rondon, DeAndre Rowe-McKenzie, Cleo Lesley Septimo, Jennifer Viloria

FREE ADMISSION

Ticket Reservation and proof of COVID vaccination required

Reserve tickets at

https://4950.brownpapertickets.com/

For more information contact

[email protected]

05/02/2022

Lehman alumni who received a Dance BA, Dance Theatre BFA or Multimedia Performing Arts BFA (Dance Track) in 2020 or earlier are eligible. Please keep in mind, the application deadline is June 15.

https://forms.gle/2pDd594CxZtyoDrP7

04/20/2022

Opening Wednesday April 27 at 3:30PM

¡Pa’lante! – a devised piece from the multimedia, theater and dance department exploring the history of activism in New York City through the eyes of The Young Lords Party.

Directed by guest artist, Victoria Pérez

FREE ADMISSION

Reservations required!
https://m.bpt.me/event/5395073

04/08/2022

Hi all! April 13 is next week Wednesday! Come join us!

03/18/2022

(Reposted with image)

Suneil Sanzgiri: Artist Talk + Screening

Tuesday, March 22nd @ 6pm on ZOOM (Online)

This lecture by artist and filmmaker Suneil Sanzgiri unpacks and explores questions and themes around decolonization, identity, diaspora, and cross-continental solidarity. Through his lens based practice, Sanzgiri’s experimental films and installations blend multiple layers of 16mm film, CG animation, desktop aesthetics, and archival manipulation to gesture to tensions, possibilities, and replications of what we find when we search for ourselves in the remnants of colonial histories. Sanzgiri will invite students to think through methodologies employed by various interpretations of “the essay film” and ultimately workshop with students ways of thinking that seek to produce a series of questions about their own work.

Please email Professor Monica Duncan via [email protected] for the Zoom meeting link.

03/16/2022

The award-winning Titan Theatre Company is proud to present its annual FUTURE CLASSICS FESTIVAL reading series! The FUTURE CLASSICS FESTIVAL will play a two-night limited engagement at Titan's home at Queens Theatre. Performances are on Friday, March 25th and Saturday, March 26th at 7pm.

The FUTURE CLASSICS FESTIVAL is a new works festival dedicated to ushering forth a new “classical” canon by amplifying the voices of BIPOC playwrights, actors, and directors. Titan will present readings of three plays during the festival’s reading series. The "winning” play will receive a fully staged production in a future Titan season.

The highly anticipated reading series will include the plays WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE by Lehman College student Yukie Service, SHOT ROOTS by Asim Ali Naqvi, and THE LOVE HATE CLUB by Lehman graduate Juan Ramirez, Jr. The readings will include Lehman College alumni Natasha Collado, Nadja Gonzalez, Chris Guity, AJ Moeller, Angela Reynoso, Yukie Service, and Lucille Vasquez, as well as Rishi Golani and Titan Resident Company Member Kevin Stanfa.

Lehman College student Simran Pal Kaur will direct, along with Asim Ali Naqvi and Titan Company Member Gregory Couba. Costume Design will be by Anthony Paul-Cavaretta and Lehman graduate Jahdiel Rodriguez will be the Production Stage Manager.

Tickets ($10) are available online at www.titantheatrecompany.com or by calling the Queens Theatre Box Office at 718-760-0064. Tickets may also be purchased in-person at the Queens Theatre Box Office, Tuesday through Friday 12pm to 6pm, and two hours before showtimes on weekends.

03/15/2022

Suneil Sanzgiri: Artist Talk + Screening

Tuesday, March 22nd @ 6pm on ZOOM (Online)

This lecture by artist and filmmaker Suneil Sanzgiri unpacks and explores questions and themes around decolonization, identity, diaspora, and cross-continental solidarity. Through his lens based practice, Sanzgiri’s experimental films and installations blend multiple layers of 16mm film, CG animation, desktop aesthetics, and archival manipulation to gesture to tensions, possibilities, and replications of what we find when we search for ourselves in the remnants of colonial histories. Sanzgiri will invite students to think through methodologies employed by various interpretations of “the essay film” and ultimately workshop with students ways of thinking that seek to produce a series of questions about their own work.

Please email Professor Monica Duncan via [email protected] for the Zoom meeting link.

01/18/2022

If you love to dance, join us for this informal audition for the Spring Dance Concert! The pieces will be choreographed by current Lehman Dance majors in a variety of styles. You don’t need to prepare anything in advance, just come ready to dance!

Once you are cast in a piece, you may also register for DNC 209 to receive credit. For any additional questions, email [email protected].

12/16/2021

Tune-in Today at 2pm to the Livestream YouTube premiere of DNC/THE 225 Tools for Digital Storytelling Final Projects

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSJ3b-5WjA0

Kindling - Gabriel Agostinelli & Chanel Huston

Reflections - Sam Akeloko & Dana War

To love again - Ashley Areche, Justin Gallagher & Robert Loria

A Forest Story - Claricarmen Ortega & Mac Varga

Color Me Choreo - Edgar Gonzalez & Tae Kim

Faculty: Monica Duncan

IG post designed by Ashley Areche .s

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12/13/2021

Lehman College Theatre and Dance Program: Save the Date! Auditions for Spring Production of Pa'lante January 21, 2022

PLEASE NOTE: This audition notice will be followed up in mid-January with further details closer to the January 21st audition date with more information about audition requirements and time slots for auditions. Please save the date now!

To earn THE 200 or DNC 209 credit you must audition and be cast or assigned to production roles as assistant directors or production dramaturgs. Students will be given permissions for these credits after casting is complete before the first day of classes on January 28th. This devised theatre production will feature performers from across the performance spectrum and students will participate in the creation and devising of the production.

11/17/2021

"The Radish", a short film written and directed by Associate Professor, Jennifer McCabe was accepted into the Berlin Independent Film Festival.

Thrilled to share that our shorts "The Radish", written & directed by Jennifer McCabe, "Unknowable", written by Gary O. Bennett & directed by Alyssa Rallo Bennett, and "Barstool", written by Gary O. Bennett & directed by Alyssa Rallo Bennett, have been accepted into the Berlin Indie Film Festival!

Congrats to the DP Andy Jean Louis, crews and great sound, Ethan Gustavson, behind these unique, thoughtful shorts, which feature a collective nine Stonestreet actors-in-residency

11/12/2021

From our friends at LEHMAN STAGES

Lehman College's New Voices: The Student Playwriting Festival has its digital premiere happening tonight @ 7 via YouTube. Please show us some support and love tonight just by logging in!
The link: https://youtu.be/jGLNHpj5b_o

The last live theater performance at Lehman College before Covid, was our Feb 2020 New Voices Festival. Great to celebrate the return to live theater again - with this festival of wonderful new plays, and another superb ensemble of student actors, performers, film crew, faculty design and production crew - we hope to see you there!

10/22/2021

Directed by Stephanie Stowe
October 27th through October 31
Wednesday 3:30 PM
Thursday-Saturday 7:00 PM
Sunday 2:30 PM
Live and streamed performances and post-show discussions with the director, cast, and production team to follow. Now in its 9th year, the New Voice Student Play Festival returns in October 2021 to offer a diverse series of thrilling contemporary one-act plays highlighting the superb talents of emerging Lehman College student playwrights and performers, showcasing the
following new works:
• IRE by Urmi Rahman
• Moments by Yukie Service
• Locked in Love by Daniel Mendiola
• Volts and Ohms by Thomas Behnke

10/01/2021

MASTER CLASS
BREAKING INTO THE BIZ WITH LEV GORN
Friday, October 15th
5 - 8 pm

• How to find an Agent and Manager
• Meeting Casting Directors
• Audition technique
• Working with directors on a professional TV/Film set
• Getting a Career-Launching Headshot
• Health and Wellness
• Actor training after graduation
• Choosing a survival job that supports your acting career

In a business where the actor has little control over getting the role, Breaking Into The Biz Workshop teaches eight measurable steps that enable actors to take control of their chosen path in life and launch their acting careers. For more information, https://sway.office.com/kF5YbpBx8OZBPDcm?ref=Link

To RSVP please email Professor Jennifer McCabe at [email protected] in order to receive a Zoom link.

09/23/2021

SAVE THE DATE! Oct 4-5th at 6pm on the Lehman Quad. Dance In Dialog is back for an outdoor, social distanced performance. Stay tuned for live stream info!

Dance In Dialog is an annual series that aims to start conversations about dance, and explore the process of making dances. This year, two guest artists, Glenn Potter-Takata and TweetBoogie, will work with students to create two pieces which will be performed outside on the Lehman campus. These pieces will be shown on October 4th and 5th and will be followed by a Q and A with the artists and dancers .