Notre Dame FTT 🎥📺🎭

What a fantastic celebration of our seniors today at the Philbin Studio Theatre! We recognized all of our majors and minors with certificates, presented outstanding students with awards, displayed costumes from our theatre season, screened the student film festival, and shared congrats, goodbyes, and thank yous. #ND2026

As the curtain closes on Carolyn Dell’s time at Notre Dame, she can’t help but reminisce on all her favorite memories. Dancing backstage before every performance, listening for a crewmate’s “Let’s go, girls” as their cue to move a 15-foot puppet across a stage, and even coming back to her residence hall after long rehearsals to chat her first-year roommate, one of her closest friends. Though she'll always feel a fondness for the people and productions that filled her time here, Carolyn said, she also feels prepared to start the next act of her life. “Notre Dame really sets up arts majors to have a point of view on a subject,” she said. “And I think that’s going to serve me very, very well going into the workforce.” Read Carolyn's story at the link in our bio 🔗 #ND2026

Join us as we celebrate our graduating Musical Theatre minors with a week of capstone performances! The full schedule can be found at the link in our bio or by heading over to ftt.nd.edu/events

HAPPY 🎼 OPENING 🎻 NIGHT 🎹 The wait is finally over for FTT’s final production of the 2025-2026 season! On the streets of Dublin, an Irish musician and a Czech immigrant are drawn together by their shared love of music. Over the course of one fateful week, an unexpected friendship and collaboration quickly evolves into a powerful but complicated love story. GET YOUR TICKETS NOW!! 🎟️ Click the 🔗 in our bio or head over to performingarts.nd.edu to pick up yours today! SHOWTIMES: Wednesday, April 15 @ 7:30 PM Thursday, April 16 @ 7:30 PM Friday, April 17 @ 7:30 PM Sunday, April 19 @ 2:30 PM Directed by Matt Hawkins Book by Enda Walsh Music & lyrics by Glen Hansard & Markéta Irglová Based on the motion picture written and directed by John Carney ONCE is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. 📸: @evan__cobb

Seniors! Looking for a 40k to round out your schedule this Fall? Consider taking Audition Seminar with FTT Prof. Siiri Scott!

CHECK YOUR EMAIL ✉️💻 The nomination form for 2026-2027 FTT Student Ambassadors is now LIVE! All FTT majors have received the link to the nomination form in their ND email. You have from now until Tuesday, April 14 at noon to send in your nominations!

FTT student ambassador nominations open NEXT WEEK! Be on the lookout next Tuesday for the nomination form!

Join us this Thursday, March 26, at 7:30pm in the Philbin Studio Theatre for a staged reading of George Washington’s Mexican Birthday! Set in Laredo, Texas, a group of high school students prepares for the month-long George Washington Birthday Celebration - where tradition, identity, and ambition collide. The staged reading of this full-length play will be followed by a conversation with Dolores Diaz, moderated by Professor Anne García-Romero. This is a free but ticketed event! Tickets can be reserved at performingarts.nd.edu or at the link in our bio.

Looking for an on campus student job that lets you flex your artistic skills? 🎨 Apply to join FTT’s marketing team as a student graphic designer! Check the link in our bio for more information and to apply! Applications are due Monday, April 6. This position is open to all current undergraduate students at the University of Notre Dame.

The Department of Film, Television, and Theatre is excited to announce the schedule for the 2026 - 2027 theatre season! Information on how to purchase tickets for these performances will be announced at a later date. The Department is also incredibly excited to announce the student director for the 26/27 theatre season, Logan Schlitt! Schlitt will be directing the play “These Shining Lives” by Melanie Marnich. This play shares the historical story of a group of four women who worked as dial painters in the 1920s. However, they quickly become deathly ill due to the consumption of radium from the factory’s paint. While fighting for their rights as workers and their lives as young feminists, these women learn to use their voices to demand justice, cherish their friendships, and live their lives to the fullest. And lastly, we would also like to announce that the next New Works Lab musical will be “Moving Thomas Sullivan” by Ben Warren Flynn! This story follows a young man who lives and performs music in a busy metropolitan train station. The station is a metaphor however, for the grief that keeps him stuck in place, while the people around him try to help him move forward. Again, stay on the lookout for more information on when to purchase tickets for the 26/27 season! And don’t forget to pick up your tickets for our final performance of the 25/26 season, “ONCE”!

NDFTT is excited to announce that in just SIX WEEKS we will be RETURNING to the Patricia George Decio Mainstage Theatre for our upcoming Spring musical, ONCE! 🎼🎹 On the streets of Dublin, an Irish musician and a Czech immigrant are drawn together by their shared love of music. Over the course of one fateful week, an unexpected friendship and collaboration quickly evolves into a powerful but complicated love story. TICKETS ARE ON SALE NOW!! 🎟️ Click the 🔗 in our bio or head over to performingarts.nd.edu to pick up yours today! SHOWTIMES: Wednesday, April 15 @ 7:30 PM Thursday, April 16 @ 7:30 PM Friday, April 17 @ 7:30 PM Sunday, April 19 @ 2:30 PM Directed by Matt Hawkins Book by Enda Walsh Music & lyrics by Glen Hansard & Markéta Irglová Based on the motion picture written and directed by John Carney ONCE is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI.

FTT’s second student directed production, Beatriz’s Journey (El Viaje de Beatriz), has officially come to a close! Thank you to everyone who came out this past weekend to support this wonderful production! A VERY SPECIAL thank you to the faculty and staff at Edison and ECDC for arranging to bring their students to our opening day performance, and to the Robinson Center for assisting with transportation! And a HUGE congratulations to the cast, crew, and our incredible student director, Erin Farmer, on an absolutely outstanding job! 🏰🌈