2025 Day of Giving

2025 SCU NYC Immersion Trip in front of HB Studio!

 

Help us connect our performing artists to the community. 

There are so many ways in which the Arts at Santa Clara builds our university community and identity. Students from a variety of different majors, across the campus, find themselves in our studios to take classes geared towards “non-majors” and realize that the Theatre and Dance department is a lively, welcoming, generous, inclusive and inspiring place to be! The skills we teach are widely marketable in all areas of life – presentation skills, creativity, critical thinking, collaboration, leadership – but even more important than these skills are the opportunities our students have to practice their humanity. How do you hold eye contact? Can you be present with another person’s pain? Their joy? What happens if you need to argue with someone in a way that doesn’t alienate but rather elevates the shared conflict towards a powerfully productive resolution? 

We are so proud of the work our students do in the studios, on the stages and in the shops of the department. Building things from design blueprints and drafts, creating fully realized characters from a black and white page of text, moving their bodies in exquisite patterns that reveal the unspoken condition of the spirit. Our students do it all. And we couldn’t do it without you.

Your gifts over the years have helped expose our students to the latest techniques and tools they need to compete in the field of the performing arts. Because of your kindness, we been able to add programming (First Look Series) that brings new work from a plethora of global voices to the studios. We have brought in Guest Artists to teach our students professional practices in Stage Management, Fight and Intimacy Choreography, Afro-Haitian Dance, and Sound Design. Each summer, students are given supplementary grants from the Department and the College of Arts & Sciences through the REAL program ensuring that any internships they receive are PAID. Students have been supported in their attendance of the Design and Technology conference at USITT every year. And, because of you, we have been able to send students to NYC every spring to network, see shows, take master classes, and explore the options of a career in the Big Apple. 

Thank you for your continued support of the Department of Theatre and Dance. We are so blessed to have you in our community!!!  

With Gratitude,

Kimberly Mohne Hill 

Department Chair

YOUR DONATIONS IN ACTION - IN NYC!!!!

SCU NYC Immersion Trip in progress. Show #1: Tony Award-winning The Outsiders!

 

NYC Immersion day of service at God's Love We Deliver!

Pictured in Top Banner: Back row (L-R): Jeff Bracco ('89), Debra Lambert, Maya Jaffe '24, Amelia Bethel '13, Erin Coffey '13, Skye Windsor '16, Katie Castillo '26, Tony Campisi '71, Bob Barnett '71 (English), Christian Barnard '26, Gael Sotelo '25. Front row (L-R): Tina Stafford '92, Alex Jordan '25, Genevieve Schmidt '25, Dylan Caballero '25 (Theatre Design/Tech minor), Kennedy Dawson '25, Caz Morales '25, Juliet Kulusic '23.