Start your online application to UC Santa Cruz today. The Department of Performance, Play & Design (PPD) was formed in 2023 from the fusion of the Department of Theater Arts and the Art and Design: Games & Playable Media Program. These vibr…
UCSC Associate Professor and Founder of the Open Source Afro Hair Library, A.M. Darke. UCSC Associate Professor and Founder of the Open Source Afro Hair Library, A.M. Darke. UCSC Associate Professor and Founder of the Open Source Afro Hair
To reserve a ticket to a PPD show, undergrads: UCSC Associate Professor and Founder of the Open Source Afro Hair Library, A.M. Darke. Winter 2025 Come to the Digital Arts Research Center 308 on Friday March 14, 2025 from 12pm – 4pm to see A…
Explore areas of research excellence in our department. Faculty bios on our People page include individual faculty research. Monsters play a role in the representation of some of the most challenging problems facing our world: matters of ra…
micha cárdenas, an interdisciplinary and multimedia artist, is sounding the warning about climate catastrophe tipping points in her new high-profile exhibition Probability Engine: Atlantic Overturning, which opened on October 5 at Nuit Blan…
Professor A.M. Darke of Performance, Play, & Design publishes a landmark study in Hair Animation in collaboration with Professor Theodore Kim, and graduate students Haomiao Wu and Alvin Shi. Full Yale article can be found at Yale News The s…
Marianne Weems is the artistic director of the New York-based cross-media company The Builders Association. Their new production, just in time for the election, ATLAS DRUGGED (Tools for Tomorrow) is an analysis of both the current moment, i…
Michael M. Chemers chair of the Department of Performance, Play, & Design launches new book The Figure of the Monster in Global Theatre: Further Readings on the Aesthetics of Disqualification. Bringing together international perspectives on…
Friday, February 14, 2014 – 12:00am to Sunday, February 23, 2014 – 12:00am Second Stage, Theater Arts Center (UCSC) Random with a Purpose is a student-directed, student-choreographed, student-performed, student-produced dance showcase that
UC Santa Cruz is an Hispanic Serving and Asian American, Native American, and Pacific Islander serving Institution (HSI/AANAPISI). The land on which we gather is the unceded territory of the Awaswas-speaking Uypi Tribe. The Amah Mutsun Trib…
All UCSC students are invited to audition for our staged productions! Schedules and requirements for performer auditions vary and may even be held a quarter before the production will be staged. Rehearsal schedule details to be announced at…
UC Santa Cruz offers a one-year Master of Arts in Theater Arts that prepares students for professional achievements in interactive media and performance, stage design, directing, dramaturgy,… UC Santa Cruz offers a one-year Master of Arts i…