Theatre Articles

Posted on 7/26/2024 - 6 minute read

Theatre students and faculty collaborate with puppeteer Everett Stanton to create large puppets for a children's play at Concordia. The article details the creative process and the challenges faced by student actors in bringing these characters to life.

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By Magazine Editorial Team
Posted on 6/25/2022 - 6 minute read

Christopher Aceves’s ’22 innovative original costumes for a recent Concordia theatre presentation earned him the nation’s highest collegiate costuming award—a first for any Concordia student.

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By Magazine Editorial Team
Posted on 11/22/2021 - 5 minute read

Kai Parham tells his story of being cast in the one-man show, as well as a variety of his recent accomplishments.

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By Magazine Editorial Team
Posted on 6/21/2021 - 6 minute read

Julia Avila ’21, a liberal studies major and musical theatre minor, had acted in every musical and play at  Concordia University Irvine in her three years as an undergraduate. But coming into the 2020-21 school year, because of COVID restrictions placed by the state and county, she thought her acting career at  Concordia University Irvine might have ended prematurely.

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By Magazine Editorial Team
Posted on 3/1/2020 - 1 minute read

Concordia University Irvine's theater program received yet another high honor from the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival (KCACTF), being invited to present the full show of Xanadu, a musical parody, at the organization’s regional showcase.

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By Magazine Editorial Team
Posted on 3/1/2019 - 2 minute read

Concordia University Irvine’s theatre program has enjoyed annual success in the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival, and this year was no different as the show I and You was selected to appear in full production.

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Posted on 11/1/2018 - 2 minute read

Hannah Welter '10, a set and costume designer, has graced Disneyland park, online TV shows and CUI’s theatre productions. But until she came to Concordia, she didn’t realize she could create visual worlds for a living.

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By Magazine Editorial Team
Posted on 7/1/2018 - 7 minute read

A four-year creative journey brought an original play to campus in March. Ten Days in a
Madhouse, based on a 19th-century book by investigative reporter Nellie Bly, depicted
her pioneering efforts to expose abuses in a mental asylum of the day

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Posted on 9/28/2017 - 5 minute read

Since graduating from Concordia University Irvine, the New York City resident's career has flourished, with appearances in Magic of the Dance in Germany and Taiwan, a production of In the Heights at Theatre Under the Stars in Houston, Texas, the play Choir Boy at the Briggs Opera House in Vermont, and The Scottsboro Boys at Phoenix Theatre in Arizona.

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