Stage & Screen

On the show today is faculty member Rory Ledbetter. Rory is Associate Professor of Voice and Acting, and he is the director of Legally Blonde: The Musical, which we will be presenting October 29 thro…

Lauren Bone Noble, assistant professor of movement for the actor, talks about "Dreaming Green," our part in the global event Climate Change Theatre Action 2021.

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In this episode we chat with new faculty member Lindsay Rae Taylor, who joined our department as Assistant Professor of Performance in the fall of 2021. Lindsay talks about her background, her areas …

Elena Ontiveros graduated from our program in 2018 with a BFA in Musical Theatre and a BA in Music. Since then, she's built a very interesting caree—a mix of performance (both on stage and onscreen),…

Lauren Ray graduated from our program in 2009 with a B.A. Theatre Arts and French, and she's now a teacher and speech and debate coach at Northwest Rankin High School in Flowood, MS. She also serves …

Lauren Ray graduated from our program in 2009 with a B.A. Theatre Arts and French, and she's now a teacher and speech and debate coach at Northwest Rankin High School in Flowood, MS. She also serves …

Christina Tompkins graduated from our BFA Musical Theatre program in 2009, and since then has been on stages across the country—most recently as part of a national tour of "The Sound of Music."  She …

Madison Morrow graduated from the University of Mississippi with dual degrees in theatre arts and general business—in the spring of 2020, when the global COVID-19 pandemic was upending everyone's pos…

In this episode, we caught up with costume designer and BFA alum John Polles. John is currently working with the Santa Fe Opera, and he has also recently worked with the Julliard School and Baltimore…

Today we're catching up with Allie Downs, who graduated from our program in 2019 with a B.F.A. in Theatre Arts, Emphasis in Design and Production focusing on costume design. Allie currently owns her …

In this episode we talked with another recent graduate, Elizabeth Burrow of Pascagoula, who just received her BFA in Theatre Arts with an emphasis in Musical Theatre. Elizabeth's story is pretty inte…

In a continuation of our series of interviews with graduating seniors, today's episode features Catherine Long, a recent BFA graduate from our Acting for Stage & Screen program.

The Georgia native kne…

Continuing our series highlighting graduating seniors, this episode features Gregor Patti and Keeton Landfair, who have an interesting perspective because they went to high school together and have n…

Our guest today is graduating senior Gianna Schuetz, a Huntsville, Alabama native who came to the university to pursue a complicated dual degree in Managerial Finance and Theatre Arts. Along the way …

Lauren Bone Noble joined our faculty in the fall of 2020 as Assistant Professor of Movement for the Actor, and in that semester spearheaded the creation of a brand new work of devised theatre called …

Today's guest is Micah-Shane Brewer, assistant professor of musical theatre and director of our spring-season production of Urinetown: The Musical, which will be available for streaming April 9-11. M…

Wesley McClain graduated from the University of Mississippi Department of Theatre & Film with a BFA in Theatre Arts, emphasis in Design and Technology and now works as the Automation Department Super…

Dan Stearns, assistant professor of acting, discusses our spring-season production Pop-Up Shakespeare, which he is directing, as well as his background in Shakespearean performance.

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On today's episode, we talk with Jaye Davidson, a recent addition to the faculty in our BFA Film Production program. Jaye will talk about her past and current projects, the Atlanta filmmaking scene, …

Hello everyone and welcome back to Stage and Screen. I'm your host Katherine Stewart and today we have Part 2 of my interview with alum Jay Jurden. Jay is what you might call a triple threat, but of …