Illinois Theatre Class of 2022: Emily Albert-Stauning, Antwaun Allen, Corey Barlow, Drew Brady, Raiya Wen, Sarah Clement, Haven Crawley, Greer Durham, Connor Kamradt, Bree Kazinski, Jimmy Ladd, Ben Matthew, Gabriel J. Ortiz, AJ Paramo, Palash Ranjit, Ethan Solomon, and Destin Sorin.
In September 2020, the UIUC junior studio actors created The Harlem Renaissance Project to explore poems from the extraordinary African American cultural movement a century before. This was a cherished experience and served the class’s mission of inclusion, decolonization of the canon, and expression of passion and commitment to the Black Lives Matter movement. This video was shared as an offering from Illinois Theatre honoring Black History Month for the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s community and beyond.
An enterprise in magical realism, REDBALL was produced through an interdepartmental partnership between Illinois Theatre Actors, Theatre Studies Screenwriters, and Media and Cinema Studies Filmmakers to create and produce original content from the ground up. It was shown April 15-17 in the Krannert Art Museum Auditorium on a continuous loop, with sound, and was included in 2021’s Ebertfest.
Student-written/improvised scenes made in partnership with Andrew Gleason and the incredible Video Services team.
