<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Dr. Nikki Yeboah will join the UW School of Drama this fall as our new Assistant Professor of Playwriting. As the first full-time faculty member hired in the playwriting area since the retirement of Executive Director and playwriting professor Betty Comtois in 1993, Yeboah will be instrumental in designing and implementing the school’s playwriting pedagogy.</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></p>
<p>UW Drama alum Malie Fujii <i>(she/her)</i> is a proud Yonsei Japanese American who pronounces her name “muh-LEE-ay foo-JEE-ee” and resides on the lands of the Coast Salish, Canarsie, and Munsee Lenape peoples. She works primarily in stage and production management, prioritizing projects that center Global Majority (BIPOC) artists, communities, and abundance. Recent credits include <i>Twelfth Night,</i> <i>As You Like It, Shout Sister Shout!
<p><span>Ada</span><span> Limón, a current Guggenheim fellow, is the author of five poetry collections, including <em>The Carrying</em>, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry. Her fourth book <em>Bright Dead Things</em> was named a finalist for the National Book Award, a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. She serves on the faculty of Queens University of Charlotte Low Residency M.F.A program and lives in Lexington, Kentucky.</span></p>
Resilience is the ability to overcome failure by learning from it and applying it to another effort. Here students identify obstacles to creativity and create strategies for overcoming them.
Examines the specific cultural, socio-economic, and political functions of aesthetic objects that serve utilitarian purposes such as clothing, architecture, furniture and functional design.
Online course examines creative research in the arts and the natural overlap with research in other fields. Explores research through lens of digital art, dance, science and theater.
<p>The University of Washington School of Drama is thrilled to share that Dr. Nikki Yeboah will join us as our new Assistant Professor of Playwriting in the fall of 2021. </p>
<p>Sam Quiambao (he/him) is a senior studying drama and informatics with a focus on human computer interaction. He transferred to UW from South Seattle College, intending to study computer science. When he didn’t get into CS, he found himself without a backup plan. But, remembering how much he enjoyed a high school theatre course, he enrolled in Intro to Acting and rediscovered his love for theatre. Sam is now a core member of the Drama community, serving as the Executive Director of the Undergraduate Theatre Society and working as the School of Drama's Engagement Assistant.
<p>The University of Washington School of Drama is thrilled to share that Dr. Jasmine Mahmoud will join us as our new Assistant Professor of Theatre History, Theory, and Criticism in the fall of 2021. </p>
<p>We are thrilled to introduce you to new UW Drama faculty member Adrienne Mackey, who joined us this quarter as an Assistant Professor of Acting, Directing, and Devising. Mackey is teaching remotely from her home in Philadelphia this quarter with plans to relocate to Seattle with her husband, Bradley Wrenn, this spring. (Bradley will also be teaching a new course on improvisation next quarter at UW—stay tuned for more about that!) </p>