Colgate University Theater

06/18/2026

The Colgate University Department of Theater is seeking to hire a full-time Assistant Technical Director. Responsibilities will include assisting the Technical Director with all aspects of the Department of Theater’s productions and cocurricular activities in Brehmer Theater and other department production spaces, assisting in the instruction and supervision of students completing required class hours, as well as the supervision of student workers and student crews, acting as Lighting Supervisor for all productions in Brehmer Theater and all events and productions in the Experimental Exhibition and Performance Space in Bernstein Hall.

For additional information regarding this position and to apply, please go to https://careers.colgate.edu/postings/6953.

Review of applications will begin on August 3, 2026.

05/23/2026

Congratulations to the Colgate University class of 2026! And a special congratulations to our Theater majors and minors!

05/12/2026

A BIG shout-out to Simona Giurgea, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Theater, for being named Colgate University's Phi Eta Sigma Professor of the Year at the 2026 Colgate Award Convocation!

Out of the nominations received, students shared:

"She’s one of the most insightful people I have talked to about art. She knows her art form intimately and is deeply passionate about it."

"I’ve never had a professor who has cared this much about all her students."

"In a world where AI looms over artists' heads, the undoubtedly human and beautiful work Simona does inspires me to continue creating for the rest of my life."

Congratulations, Simona, on this well-deserved recognition!

Pictured: Tanner Harmon '26, Simona Giurgea, Vee Vuignier '26

Tanner Harmon '26 is one of the recipients of the Howard W. & Anne T. Pike Memorial - Senior Award

Vee Vuignier '26 received the Howard W. & Anne T. Pike Memorial - Technical Theater Award

05/12/2026

Congratulations to this year's Theater award winners:

The Howard W. & Anne T. Pike Memorial - Senior Award
Awarded to a senior concentrator who has demonstrated extensive scholarship, daring originality, and exceptional commitment to the art of theater.
Recipient: Cece Dillon '26 & Tanner Harmon '26

The Howard W. & Anne T. Pike Memorial - Technical Theater Award
Awarded to a student who has exhibited sustained commitment to technical theater and production support or an outstanding contribution in a design capacity during their time at Colgate.
Recipient: Vee Vuignier '26

The Howard W. & Anne T. Pike Memorial - Dance Award
Awarded to a student who has demonstrated outstanding scholarship in the field of dance studies.
Recipient: Zack Berner '27

The Howard W. & Anne T. Pike Memorial - Writing Award
Awarded for the best critical or creative student writing project produced for a Department of Theater course.
Recipient: Max Katz '27

03/27/2026

Happy World Theatre Day! 🎭

Check out these message videos from International Theatre Institute ITI:

Video Message by Willem Dafoe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gg15aPydLbE

Video Message by Moisés Kaufman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKn0wUQ20M0

Video Message by Banna Desta
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3_pVSPD7oU

Video Message by World Theatre Day Message Author 2026, Willem Dafoe

02/25/2026

Join us next week for "Beast Mythologies of Killer Heels Practice" created and performed by Hank Bamberger.

Limited seating. Registration through Eventbrite is strongly encouraged!

https://www.facebook.com/events/1429217272161300/1429217282161299/

Send a message to learn more

02/18/2026

Francesca Zambello ’78, Washington National Opera (WNO) artistic director and inaugural Clifford Innovator in Residence at Colgate (2025), has commissioned Associate Professor of Theater Kyle Bass as librettist and composer Damien Sneed to bring Scott Joplin’s Treemonisha to life.

It will be performed by the WNO on March 7, 8, and 15 at Lisner Auditorium on the campus of George Washington University.

The two are pictured here with Shiyana Valentine '98, Zambello's head of communications.

https://bit.ly/3OPqxSA

01/30/2026

Colgate University’s Department of Theater invites applications for a visiting assistant professor position in design. Review of applications will begin March 12 and continue until the position is filled. For full details, visit: https://apply.interfolio.com/180769.

Send a message to learn more

10/16/2025

The Department of Theater at Colgate University invites applications for a tenure-stream position for an artist/scholar in Dance at the rank of Assistant Professor, beginning fall semester 2026. Review of applications will begin on November 6, 2025, and will continue until the position is filled. For full details, visit: https://apply.interfolio.com/175545.

09/12/2025

Join us for a staged reading of Colgate University’s Community Read for 2025: playwright and actor Eboni Booth’s 2024 Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, "Primary Trust".

This is the first time a play has been chosen as Colgate’s Community Read – a uniting text all incoming first-year students read and respond to. "Primary Trust" explores themes of friendship, stepping outside comfort zones, and new beginnings – perfect topics not only for first-year students embarking on adulthood, but for everyone in today’s world.

Staged readings are taking place at Brehmer Theater of Dana Arts Center on:
September 18 & 19 at 6:00 PM
September 20 at 7:00 PM
September 21 at 2:00 PM

For more information and to register for tickets, go to Eventbrite:
http://www.eventbrite.com/e/primary-trust-by-eboni-booth-a-staged-reading-tickets-1677139351949