Strengthened by our unique urban setting and diverse cultural community, Buffalo State Theater provides intensive individual artistic training supported by a robust liberal arts education.
Through the vehicles of engagement, excellence and social responsibility we strive to develop the next generation of globally impactful artists and citizens.
We are excited to host several special guest artists who will be celebrating Women's History Month with us every Monday in March. All students and faculty are welcome to attend using this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/8406617681?pwd=YStQSXJtUlNyL0tNOWN0cUJ5dnpWZz0...
This special event series is sponsored in part by the Grant Allocation Committee. All offerings are FREE!
Workshop offerings
March 1, 2021: 11 a.m. -12:50 p.m. Acting II class with Gizel Jiménez (Wicked-Broadway, Miss You Like Hell-The Public, Dexter on Showtime)
March 8th from 11-12:50 Acting II class with Heather Velazquez (Pipeline-Live From Lincoln Center on PBS, Blue Bloods on CBS)
March 15th from 7-9 p.m. TBA
March 22nd from 1-2:50 p.m. Directing class with Kimberley Rampersad (Shaw Festival Associate AD)
March 29th from 3-4:50 p.m. Directing class with Pirronne Yousefzadeh (Geva Theatre Associate AD)
Panel Discussion with above guest artists
March 29th from 7-9 p.m. "Women of Color: Leaders in Theater"
by Ansley Valentine
December 3, 4, 5, 2020
As civil unrest sweeps across the country, an industrious businesswoman and her children are trying to make a buck. Mother C, an unscrupulous survivor of epic proportions, strikes out to make a good living in bad times. But when is the price of sacrificing one’s humanity too high? Based on Bertolt Brecht’s 20th century theatrical classic Mother Courage and Her Children, Ansley Valentine’s Mother C re-imagines a morality tale for our times.
Directed by Jonathan Seinen
Tickets can be purchased here
Assistant professor, Jonathan Seinen, was recently awarded the John Hirsch Prize for directing. The John Hirsch Prize recognizes new and developing theatre directors who have demonstrated great potential for future excellence and exciting artistic vision.
Joy Guarino, professor of dance, was recently featured as a guest contributor to NDEO's blog, Behind the Curtain. Her entry is titled "Dancing Beyond the Academy". Click here to read more.