The LAUNCH PAD production of STANDING STILL! Scenic Design by Design Professor Ann Sheffield @sheffield.ann , with Associate Scenic Designer Olivia Shu @olivia.shubox . Scenic Painting by UCSB Design Graduate Lani Tunzi @spittoonzi . Assist Scenic Designers Annie Cheng @itsannie_67 and Miki Gu @mikiii_gug . Photo courtesy of Ann Sheffield. @ucsbtheaterdance
CONGRATULATIONS on your Tony Nomination for Best Scenic Design for CATS: THE JELLICLE BALL to Set Designer Rachel Hauck! Way to go Rachel!! đź‘Źđź‘Źđź‘Źđź‘Źđź‘Źđź‘Ź
LIBERATION by Bess Wohl Wins 2026 Pulitzer Prize for Drama!!! đź‘Źđź‘Źđź‘Źđź‘Źđź‘Źđź‘Źđź‘Ź
The Pulitzer Prize Board has just announced that Bess Wohl’s Liberation has won the 2026 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
Liberation opened at the James Earl Jones Theatre on October 28, 2025 and ran for 23 previews and 112 regular performances.
1970s, Ohio. Lizzie gathers a group of women to talk about changing their lives, and the world. What follows is a necessary, messy, and bitingly funny exploration of what it means to be free, and to be a woman. In Liberation, Lizzie’s daughter steps into her mother’s memory—into the unfinished revolution she once helped ignite—and searches the past to find the answer for herself.
CONGRATULATIONS to UCSB Playwriting Graduate Chelsea Sutton! @crsutton . Chelsea’s play THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE MAHULLEY MONSTER (or the Cryptid Play) is a FINALIST for the 2026 O’Neill National Playwrights Conference!! YAY CHELSEA!!!! 👏👏👏👏👏. @ucsbtheaterdance@ucsbalumni
Lighting Design Professor Vickie Scott caught up with UCSB Dance Graduate, now Lighting Designer Extraordinaire Jordan “LJ” Curiel last week in Sacramento. Jordan was in Sac. with the international tour of DANCING WITH THE STARS!! Jords is the Lighting Director and Lighting Designer for the tour! We are SO PROUD OF YOU JORDAN!! @ljdoeslights@lj_curiel17@ucsbtheaterdance@ucsbalumni@vickie_scott805
