Faculty Spotlight
Highlights, Updates and News about our Faculty.
Professor Travis Xavier Brown directs “In Gentle Verona” an adaptation of William Shakespeare's Two Gentlemen of Verona, set in today's DC with a HIP HOP vibe!
The show is opening this week at George Washington University! Featuring Howard Students Tyler Patterson and Ray Long!
*PLEASE NOTE – Wednesday, February 26th @ 7:30 is a PREVIEW and FREE for HOWARD STUDENTS! (All you have to do is show up and discounted tickets are available with student ID.)
SHOW TICKET LINK | SHOW PROGRAM LINK
SHOW DATES: Feb 26th – March 2nd
SHOW TIME: 7:30PM / SUNDAY MATINEE @ 2PM
LOCATION: Dorothy Betts Marvin Theatre Auditorium (Located in the GWU Student Center) - 800 21st Street NW, Washington DC 20052
Professor Edwin Brown receives the August Wilson Archive Grant
Congratulating Professor Edwin Brown on receiving the August Wilson Archive Grant, a collaborative effort between the August Wilson Society and the University of Pittsburgh Library Systems. Professor Brown has been awarded this grant to visit the newly established August Wilson Archive at the University of Pittsburgh due to his outstanding proposal. Professor Brown will travel to the archive in Pittsburgh to review materials that may support his presentation, “Pedagogical Innovations: Embodying Wilson’s Text,” for the Biennial August Wilson Society Colloquium. The colloquium will take place in Pittsburgh April 2-5, 2025.
Wilson’s archive, consisting of over 450 boxes, documents a broad spectrum of his career and interests from the 1960s to the 2010s. It includes scripts and production materials from his American Century Cycle plays, as well as Wilson’s personal library and music collection, artwork, poetry, unpublished works (including non-Cycle plays), speeches, essays, and interviews. The materials encompass a variety of items such as audio recordings, awards and degrees, books, correspondence, newspapers, magazines, notebooks, writing tablets, photographs, posters, production designs, props, scripts, and video recordings. The August Wilson Archive is housed in a contemporary facility within the renovated Archives & Special Collections of the University of Pittsburgh’s Hillman Library. This archive offers significant physical and digital exhibition space, a spacious reading room, and a large classroom to facilitate hands-on interaction with these and other materials.
To explore the August Wilson Archive, visit: https://augustwilson.library.pitt.edu/
To learn more about the August Wilson Society’s Biennial Colloquium, visit: AWS Colloquium Registration
Professor Pat Parks, Named Inaugural Woolly Mammoth Theatre Success Coach for Lin-Manuel Miranda Family Fellowship
Washington, D.C. – The Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company is expanding its highly regarded Miranda Family Fellowship program with the addition of a success coach, a new role designed to accelerate the professional development of the fourth cohort of fellows. Taking on this pioneering position is Howard University’s own, Theatre Arts Administration Professor Pat Parks from the Chadwick A. Boseman College of Fine Arts.
Parks added, "This collaboration is about strengthening our connection and maximizing the impact of our efforts. Howard students will continue to learn from the leadership and innovation at Woolly, while the Miranda Family Fellows will benefit from my experience in talent development and my passion for shaping the next wave of theatre and entertainment leaders."