Department Graduation Celebration
Graduation Awards for the undergraduate students who are graduating this Spring, Summer, or Fall.
Wednesday, May 10, 4-6pm CBT Lobby
Hiring: Student Actors for the Law School
Calling all future Lawyers, Actors, and Public Speakers.
As a student actor, you are given a small character case packet. You will attend law classes and answer questions the students ask for their grade. You are asked some intake/interview questions. This is very easy and you can use notes! An amazing opportunity to gain public speaking skills and meet UT Law faculty. This is a paid opportunity.
ACT Musical Theatre Review
All Campus Theatre Presents:
Musical Theatre Review
Saturday, March 4 at 8pm, Cox Auditorium, Alumni Memorial Building
A night of Time Warp, Jet Set, and More!
Christine Sage Masters Project Workshop
The Female Box Or Seven Ways to be a Good Woman
7:30 pm Saturday and Sunday, February 25th and 26th, and March 4th and March 5th, 2023
Talkback Sundays
At Dragonfly Aerial Arts (New Location)
509 Dutch Valley Dr. Knoxville, TN
Free Event – Donations Accepted
Please carpool if possible as parking is limited.
Department Meeting 1/27/23 2pm
A Welcome and Information Event
WHO: All Theatre Students, Faculty and Staff theatre majors, minors, and friends are welcome!
WHEN: Friday, January 27 from 2pm until 3:30pm
WHERE: Carousel Theatre
Join us to hear important information about theatre scholarships, special classes, new faculty, the plan for the new Carousel Theatre, and the 23-24 Clarence Brown Season. There will be Q&A time too, so bring your questions. And pick up your department T-shirt!
Clarence Brown Theatre to Receive $15,000 Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts
Knoxville, TN The Clarence Brown Theatre is pleased to announce it has been approved by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to receive a Grants for Arts Projects award of $15,000. This grant will support the hiring of guest artists for the Clarence Brown Theatre’s production of “Trouble in Mind.” This grant is one of 1,251 Grants for Arts Projects awards totaling nearly $28.8 million that were announced by the NEA as part of its first round of fiscal year 2023 grants.
“The National Endowment for the Arts is proud to support arts projects in communities nationwide,” said NEA Chair Maria Rosario Jackson, PhD. “Projects such as this one with the Clarence Brown Theatre strengthen arts and cultural ecosystems, provide equitable opportunities for arts participation and practice, and contribute to the health of our communities and our economy.”
The Clarence Brown Theatre strives to build and nurture a culture where inclusiveness is a reflex, not an initiative.
“We know through experience that different ideas, perspectives, and stories create a stronger and more creative environment, inspire us to change, teach new ideas, help us to be engaged, feel included and valued. Being able to tell the story of “Trouble in Mind” helps us to include voices not heard enough. Voices that need to be heard,” said Kenneth Martin, Clarence Brown Theatre Artistic Director and UT Theatre Department Head.
“Trouble in Mind,” a comedy-drama written in 1955, was planned for Broadway but canceled when Childress wouldn’t tone down its message. The play was finally produced in 2021 and received four Tony nominations. It will run on the CBT mainstage February 8 – 26, 2023.
For more information on other projects included in the NEA’s grant announcement, visit arts.gov/news.
With a dual mission to train the next generation of theatre artists and to provide top quality theatre, the Clarence Brown Theatre is a professional theater in residence at the University of Tennessee. Under the leadership of CBT Producing Artistic Director and UT Theatre Department Head, Kenneth J. Martin, and Managing Director, Thomas Cervone, the CBT season runs from August through May and features six productions ranging from musicals to drama.
Tramell Tillman on Fame and the Art of Transformation
Read the Full Article Here: The Torchbearer, by Cassandra Sproles December 14, 2022
Ask Tramell Tillman (’14) what it’s like to be a celebrity and he’ll humbly say that he doesn’t know—he certainly doesn’t feel like one. But after his work on the critically acclaimed Apple TV show Severance and walking the red carpet at the Emmy Awards, it’s hard to deny that Tillman’s time in the spotlight has come—and it’s just getting started.
While Tillman was excited to see celebrities like Oprah Winfrey at the Emmy Awards, he says he was surprised by other celebrities saying they were nervous to approach him in case he was like his Severance character Seth Milchick, whom Tillman describes as “an enthusiastic company man.” More…
“If it weren’t for those generous souls who supported and truly saw me, I am not sure I would be the artist I am today. Over time I learned to open and eventually trust. Trust is vital in the tender work we do. If there’s no trust we suffer, the work suffers.” – TRAMELL TILLMAN
Staged Reading of The Provoked Wife dir. by the RSC’s Phillip Breen
You are invited to join members of the English Department and Theatre Department, with support from the Center for Global Engagement and the R/18 Collective, for a one-time reading of John Vanbrugh’s delightfully dark and satirical 1697 Restoration comedy The Provoked Wife. Phillip Breen, an Associate Director at the Royal Shakespeare Company, joins us from London to direct this one-night reading as the culmination of a day of workshopping the play with Carol Mayo-Jenkins, Katie Cunningham, and Jed Diamond, as well as guest artists and MFA actors. Breen directed the sold-out run of The Provoked Wife at the RSC in 2019. The staged reading is free, Tuesday November 1 at 5:30-7:45 in the Hodges Library’s Lindsay Young Auditorium. A brief reception will follow.
Register at http://evite.me/fRfwEzJx1p
Tuesday, November 1 at 5:30pm to 8:00pm
John C Hodges Library, Lindsay Young Auditorium
1015 Volunteer Blvd, Knoxville TN
[Proof of Concept]
First Take Co. exists to help multi-disciplinary artists explore the emerging facets of their creativity in a professional, supportive environment. We believe there’s joy and learning in all steps of the making process, and invest in artists unafraid to embrace the unknown. This year, three members of our Resident Artists are offering early glimpses into work that they will continue to develop, either with our team or in personal practice. A visceral exploration of music and nostalgia; a nightclub turned social sparring ground; a haunting exploration of Appalachian sounds in a post-electric future. Each performance time offers a snippet of all three pieces! October 22-23 in Knoxville. Tickets available at linktr.ee/firsttakeco
Ethan Graham Roeder (’16), Hannah Jones (’16), Laura Clift (’17), and Grace Belt (’18), UTK theatre department alumni, started a theatre company with artists met on contracts across the country.
Their first full production is happening in Knoxville October 22-23 (homecoming weekend). It’s called PROOF OF CONCEPT, and it features three pieces of theatre-in-development at their earliest realized state.
Grace has begun work on an Appalachian musical; Ethan Roeder’s play explores the death of the Knoxville club scene; and a colleague from Great River Shakespeare is featuring a devised piece centered around nostalgia. The cast is composed almost entirely of UTK Theatre Department alumni and current students. It’s going to be a great time. We’d love to see any and all of you there!
Once the football schedule for the 22 is set, we’ll be adding performances, but if you grab a ticket now you can easily change your performance time. We’re trying to get something of an “Industry night” on Sunday, if we can.
If you have any questions let us know! Hope to see you there!
Special Event: Tramell Tillman (SEVERANCE star and UT alum) Q&A and reception
Join The UT Theatre Department for
Q&A with Tramell Tillman (Mr. Milchick in Severance)
Sept 16, 2022
2:00-3:00
Carousel Theatre
Reception to follow
All theatre faculty, staff and students are encouraged to attend.
Tramell Tillman (MFA ’14) has appeared On Broadway in The Great Society (Lincoln Center Theatre). His Off-Broadway credits include Carmen Jones (Classic Stage Company) and Tis Pity She’s a Whore (Red Bull Theater). Regional credits include Sweat (Oregon Shakespeare Festival/Arena Stage); All the Roads Home (Cincinnati Playhouse); Hamlet, The Wiz (Oregon Shakespeare Festival); A Raisin in the Sun and The Tempest (Chautauqua Theatre Company). Clarence Brown credits include Spamalot, The Whipping Man, The 25th Annual Putman County Spelling Bee, Kiss me Kate, and A Christmas Carol. Television credits include Severance (AppleTV+), Dietland (AMC), Godfather of Harlem (EPIX), The Hunt (Amazon), Elementary (CBS), and Difficult People (Hulu).
