The UCSC Theater Arts Department collectively embodies a process of rigorous experimentation and socially conscious analysis to create equitable, accessible, and interdisciplinary performance and scholarship. We are deeply committed to making performance that speaks to the current moment, disrupts oppressive narratives of the past and present, and re-centers historically marginalized communities through stories, structures, aesthetics, and rituals.
We strive in our department to put our practice at the forefront of the evolving cultures and identities of our society by immersing students in production, history, theory, and craft. We integrate these aspects with intersectional feminist, decolonial, and new media strategies and principles to help shape the performance-makers of the future. UCSC Theatre Arts students defy traditional categorization: experimenting with theory on our multiple stages, learning technique in our studios and shops, and bringing activism, artistry, and agency to their work onstage and beyond.