October 22, 2024
The J.T. & Margaret Talkington College of Visual and Performing Arts invited Dr. Budi Miller, the Co-Artistic Director of The Theatre of Others, to be our Maegene Nelson Visiting Cross-disciplinary scholar this fall. He is the Director of Advanced Training at the Fitzmaurice Institute, a Lead Teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework, a certified integrative studies practitioner, and a UNESCO-designated master teacher of mask work.
October 22, 2024
While it may seem like West Texas has little access to the international theatre community, the students at Texas Tech take part in many signature programs that connect them to artists and scholars worldwide.
October 22, 2024
"Leave the world a little better than you found it." This adage is certainly true of Production Electrician/Sound & Light Supervisor David Liles’s time as an educator. With a career spanning over 17 years, Liles has worn a variety of hats and expanded theatre opportunities for many young people in Lubbock.
September 23, 2024
As I recently welcomed our largest undergraduate class in many years in the Maedgen Theatre, I asked them to look at one another, explaining that the young people sitting beside them will be the artists with whom they collaborate in the next four years to produce art (and, in many cases, also after they graduate). I reminded them that performance, especially theatre and dance, depends on trusting one another.