Despite what some may think, seeing a playwright acting in their own work is a fairly common occurrence. For LyaNisha Gonzalez it’s just another day at the office. She will star in her newest play, Black Girl, Interrupted, which runs October 24th to 27th and October 31st to November 3rd in the Maedgen Theatre.
It feels rare to celebrate past accomplishments and to honor those whose shoulders we stand on, so it was wonderful to be able to do just that by celebrating former Head of Dance: Diana Moore.
For most of my education, fall semesters smelled like mimeograph ink. When professors handing out well, anything paper, students would smell it. And that’s what this fall semester smells like. So much of that has to do with our new building.
Maddie Bryan will be the first student at Texas Tech to graduate from the Musical Theatre program. She explained that when the program was introduced, there were sophomores and juniors who switched over to it, but she was among the first of the that inaugural year. Now, a few years later, her graduation marks a unique moment for TTU and a successful “proof of program” for the School.