180A - PERFORMANCE
Audition
Auditions are typically announced in the quarter prior to the performance. Information can be found on the Theatre and Dance website where details about the production and the audition requirements can be found. Sign up for an audition appointment on the form on the website for a chance at a role in either Theatre or Dance productions! Casting is typically completed in the same week as the auditions are held. Then the fun really begins!
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Rehearsal
Rehearsals start with safety and theatrical intimacy training for the cast and stage management teams. Your full participation is required in the six-week span available to bring a show to performance. Typical rehearsal times are 6-10p Monday through Friday with a 6 hour slot on Saturday. Not all roles will require full participation in nightly rehearsals. While some academic and personal conflicts can be accommodated (make note of these conflicts at auditions so the director can work with your schedule), please make every effort to make yourself available for the complete rehearsal schedule, including technical rehearsals in the week prior to opening.
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Performance
Performances are typically held on Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings with a 7pm curtain, though a matinee may be scheduled on Saturday or Sunday afternoon. Performances can be just one weekend or may be two weekends (this is made clear at auditions and on your rehearsal schedule) Your ‘call’ as a performer is one hour before curtain or whatever time you need to prepare for your role, though the space is open and available to you as much as two hours prior to curtain. Sign in on the ‘callboard’ found between the green room (Wright 102) and the backstage entrance, head to your dressing room, and become the character you’ve worked hard to create!
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CATALOG DESCRIPTION
Rehearsal and performance of a production directed or choreographed by visiting Granada Artists-in-Residence and/or faculty, and/or the UG Edge Festival.
Meet the Granadas
SPRING 2024 granada artist
Who's There will be directed by Irish theatre director and acting teacher Sinéad Rushe who returns to UC Davis to collaborate with co-director Professor Margaret Laurena Kemp, chair of theatre and dance. Rushe and Kemp’s previous project AntigoneNOW, produced online at the beginning of the pandemic in 2020, was screened worldwide including an invited presentation at the Egypt International Experimental Theatre Festival. Rushe is the author of Michael Chekhov’s Acting Technique: A Practitioner’s Guide, co-translator into French of four plays by Howard Barker and was senior lecturer in acting and movement at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London. In fall 2023 she became lead acting tutor at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA).
fall 2024 granada artist
Lucas Hatton is the co-artistic director of Davis Repertory Theatre. He has directed several acclaimed productions including SEE YOU IN MY DREAMS (Hammer Theatre, San Jose), INCIDENT AT VICHY (Steep Theatre) and FOOLIN’ AROUND WITH INFINITY (Phalanx Theatre). The later two both received Critic’s Choice in The Chicago Reader. He also served as Artistic Director of the educational theatre company Playmakers Lab in Chicago. Lucas has performed in many video games, commercials and plays.
WINTER 2025 granada artist
Erika Chong Shuch is a performance maker, choreographer and director whose topic-driven ruminations coalesce into imagistic assemblages of music, movement, text, and design. Interested in expanding ideas around how performance is created and shared, Shuch’s work has been performed in city halls, theaters, industrial offices spaces, diners, parking lots and food courts.