TPA Student Employee Maddie Daniell shares her experience at APAP conference in the city that never sleeps.
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APAP Takes Over Manhattan
Student employee Wendy Fernandez reflects on her APAP Conference volunteer experience and adventures in New York City.
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Adrienne Boni Banks - Student Employee Extraordinaire
Student Employee of the Year Award Nominee Adrienne Boni Banks looks back on her experience as the Student Engagement Senior Student Associate at Texas Performing Arts.
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Making (Sound) Waves with Public Art
Sound in Sculpture co-creator and TPA Student Engagement Coordinator Tim Rogers shares the history behind the event.
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Seeing With Your Ears: Sound in Sculpture
Student composer Jake Wohleb shares his perspective on the Sound in Sculpture creative process.
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Thinking Outside the Cube with Grace Ma
Sound in Sculpture composer Grace Ma shares how Sol LeWitt inspired her newest piece.
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For the Love of the Stage
Meet husband and wife team, Freddy Carnes, TPA volunteer usher, and Olga Kasma-Carnes, house manager.
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Going APAP: Professional Adventures in the Urban Jungle
Student Employee, Susannah Crowell, shares her experience at the Association of Performing Arts Professionals Conference in NYC.
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A Whirlwind APAP Adventure
Student Employee, Adrienne Banks, shares her experience at the Association of Performing Arts Professionals Conference in NYC.
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Making a Scene: An Interview with Michael J. Krauss
Scenic designer and UT alumnus Michael J. Krauss talks Musical Thrones.
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The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Awards TPA $500,000
Texas Performing Arts awarded $500,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support The Power of Protest: Arts and Civil Disobedience
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EnRAPTORed with J. E. Johnson and Karen Maness
A conversation about the successes, stumbles, and surprises of bringing the Enron Raptors—and a new learning process—to life.
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Sean Tecson: From Bat City to the Big Apple
Former TPA Student Employee and UT alum Sean Tecson shares his experience participating in the Broadway Bound Theater Festival in New York City. Poor Boys' Chorus, the play Tecson directed and co-produced, had a three-day as part of the festival.
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Theatre and Dance student discovers interest in sound design through job at Texas Performing Arts
TPA student employees learn alongside industry professionals and gain valuable resume-building experience that serves as a unique complement to the university curriculum. Malyssa Quiles, a junior in Theatre and Dance, works as a student audio assistant.
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On the ‘Journey’ with Fifth House Ensemble’s Melissa Snoza
"The music is so intricately tied to all the players' actions and seems completely seamless. And yet there are all these hidden mechanics that determine what happens sonically depending on what happens to your player," explained Snoza.
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The Value of Student Volunteerism
Meet the Texas Performing Arts Robert L. Tocker Student Volunteers of the Year Award winners; Wendy Fernandez and Vinay Thomas!
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A world of dance alights at the University of Texas
The best global, modern and postmodern companies regularly visit Austin university.
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Taking the Lead: Jeremy “Jae” Neal
“There’s definitely some anxiety of responsibility, but also excitement,” said Neal, who takes the stage as lead in Live! The Realeast MC for the first time later this week.
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Come back to the cabaret at the University of Texas
"This week, [TPA] launches a cabaret mini-season starring three of the biggest guns in the business..." -Michael Barnes
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From Curtis to Career Musicians
“I think one always begins music because you love it and hopefully that love pervades for the rest of your life.” - Joel Link, Dover Quartet