Announcements

Arts management professor Andrew Taylor spoke with the Washington Post about the effects of COVID-19 shutdowns on the Kennedy Center and other performance venues.

Dance professorial lecturer Erin Foreman-Murray spoke to WERA 96.7 Arlington about dance and embodied curiosity.

Dance professor Robert Woofter premiered “electric idols” at the Kennedy Center’s new REACH Campus. Musician-in-residence Yuliya Gorenman was interviewed in the Roanoke Times and Seattle Spokesman-Review.

Theatre professor Caleen Jennings won the the first-ever AU Faculty Award for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.

Arts management alum Monica Jeffries Hazangeles was named one of the most powerful women in Washington by Washingtonian magazine.

Adjunct music professor Katherine Riddle won the Marc Blitzstein award at the Lotte Lenya Competition for vocalists.

Auditions

Scheduling for degree program auditions for Theatre, Musical Theatre, and Music are now available via our new DPA application portal, linked on our program audition pages:

• Music Program Audition
  
• Theatre/Musical Theatre Program Audition
• Dance Program Placement Audition

Please see also:

Ensemble Auditions

Contacts

General Performing Arts

Richard Streeks at 202-885-3422 or streeks@american.edu

Arts Management

Ximena Varela at 202-885-3883 or varela@american.edu

Audio Technology

Michael Harvey at 202-885-6302 or mharvey@american.edu

Dance

Britta Joy Peterson at 202-885-1432 or bjp@american.edu

Music

Sean Doyle at 202-885-3287 or doyle@america.edu

Theatre/Musical Theatre

Karl Kippola at 202-885-3464 or kippola@american.edu