Theatre Arts Program
Previous Theatre Seasons
2021-2022 Season
2019-2020 The Season of Change
2018-2019 The Commemorative Theatre Season
Theatre Trip to New York City to see The Lion King on Broadway
For Colored Girls… by Ntozake Shange (October 2018)
Harlem Renaissance Program (original world premiere of student-written production, Harlem Song) (November 2018)
A Soldier’s Play by Charles Fuller (December 2018)
KCACTF Region II Festival 2019 at Montclair State University in Montclair, New Jersey (January 2019)
A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry (March 2019)
NADSA Conference 2019—Coppin State University is host (April 2019)
2017-2018 The Social Justice Theatre Season
Suspects in America by Willie Holmes
Tell Pharaoh by Loften Mitchell
KCACTF Region II Festival 2018 at Indiana University, Pennsylvania
For Colored Girls… by Ntozake Shange
2016-2017 The Awakening Theatre Season
You’re A Good Man Charlie Brown
Homeplace by Claudette Alexander-Thomason
Suspects in America (A Staged Reading) by Willie Holmes
2015-2016 The Community Theatre Season
Zooman and the Sign by Charles Fuller
Under the Skin by Michael Hollinger
Homeplace (A Staged Reading) by Claudette Alexander-Thomason
2014-2015 The Nobility Theatre Season
A Lesson Before Dying by Romulus Linney
Jar the Floor by Cheryl L. West
2013-2014 The Revelation Season
Truth Stands, a world premiere by Cynthia Hardeman (October 2013)
To Be Young, Gifted and Black by Lorraine Hansberry (November 2013) Adapted by Robert Nemiroff
The Waiting Room By Samm-Art Williams (March 2014)
2012-2013 Season
From the Mississippi Delta by Endesha Ida Mae Holland (October 2012)
Harriet Jacobs by Lydia Diamond (November 2012 & February 2013)
One Night Only- A Christmas Show by James Macon Grant (December 2012)
2011-2012 Season
Every Tongue Confess by Marcus Gardley (October 2011)
From the Mississippi Delta by Endesha Ida Mae Holland (December 2011)
God’s Trombones: From Test to Testimony by James Weldon Johnson; Adapted by D. Wambui Richardson (April 2012)
2010-2011 Season
In the Blood by Suzan-Lori Parks (October 2010)
Antigone by Sophocles (November 2010)
God’s Trombones by James Weldon Johnson (April 2011)
2009-2010 Season
The Colored Museum by George C. Wolfe (November 2009)
Constant Star by Tazewell Thompson (March 2010)
Pill Hill by Samuel Kelley (April 2010)
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The faculty provides nurturance through instruction, leadership, mentorship, advice, and interactive learning methods to engage students in theory, scholarship, practice, and community service. In addition to the staff and faculty listed below, we'd like to thank the following Adjunct Faculty team members too:
The Theatre Program is within the Department of Humanities in the College of Arts & Sciences, and Education.