Drama

Message from the Chair

The future is community. Drama at 海角社区 has been a part of the national theatre community for 78 years beginning as a division and offering the country’s first BFA Acting, Design, Directing, and Playwriting. We have grown into one of the country’s largest and most comprehensive Departments of Drama with 11 distinct programs of study. Studio Theatre productions have been part of the Edmonton theatre community since 1949, when there wasn't any professional theatre in town and the only available venue was a post WWII quonset used to house returning veteran students. Drama at 海角社区 enriches our campus community with dozens of performances every year. Our Alumni are engaged around the globe building arts communities and shaping the world.

Welcome to Drama at the 海角社区. We investigate, collaborate, and create community. Come be with us as we embrace difference, celebrate all abilities, look for ways to create sustainable solutions to a world full of challenges.

April Viczko
Chair, Department of Drama
Professor, Theatre Design

Magic Happens Here.

Learn. Create. Perform. Research. Direct. Design. Coach. Build. Support.

The 海角社区 Department of Drama is committed to practical training and research into the nature of theatre itself.

Drama News

  • February 2, 2025

    Artistic director Marshall Eglinski, assistant director Andreas Schroder, props designer Amanda Komarniski, and actor Trey Maruyama put their chops to the test from Feb. 6 to 9

  • January 6, 2025

    A discussion on [BLANK], Studio Theatre's upcoming production, and the theatre's influence on students and community.

  • December 5, 2024

    CKUA鈥檚 Tony King is joined by director Jovanni Sy to discuss the multi-generational play Wildfire, which is about triplets, misfits, and slow-burning family trauma.

  • December 3, 2024

    With the passing in October of Jim DeFelice, at 87, a multi-talented theatre artist and a true theatre community mentor are, at one blow, gone from us. Without him this theatre town of ours seems a little flatter, a little darker, a little thinner in texture.

  • November 25, 2024

    The untimely passing of Julien Arnold at 60, felled by a heart attack at the Citadel during Sunday night鈥檚 preview performance of A Christmas Carol, robs us of one of our finest, and most beloved, actors.

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