In the News
March 25, 2019 MMC Theatre Arts alumna Adrienne Warren ’09 has been nominated for a 2019 Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical for her starring role as Tina in TINA – The Tina Turner Musical.- March 19, 2019 First-year student Perri Sparano ’21 shares her experience meeting Karen Moore, stage manager for Book of Mormon.
February 27, 2019 Emmy Raver-Lampman ’12 has joined the cast of the new, Netflix series The Umbrella Academy.
February 5, 2019 MMC Theatre Arts alumna Adrienne Warren ’09, Tony Award-nominee, stars in the West End blockbuster musical TINA – The Tina Turner Musical, which will be coming to Broadway in Fall 2019. The first single from the upcoming cast album was released today, featuring Adrienne performing the iconic song River Deep - Mountain High!
November 20, 2018 Melissa Tonning-Kollwitz, MFA, Assistant Professor of Theatre Arts at MMC, and alumnus Joe Hetterly ’15, Guest Lecturer, Theatre and Performance at SUNY Purchase, collaborated for over a year on a project investigating the standard dialects that are taught in collegiate actor-training programs and that are coached professionally.
November 9, 2018 Working with ten MMC alumnae, Assistant Professor of Theatre Arts Melissa Tonning-Kollwitz, MFA, established Project: Human Better, a womxn-centric theatre group focused on empowering womxn through education, mentorship, and devised theatre.
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June 11, 2018 Co-created by Associate Professor of Theatre Arts Ellen Orenstein, MFA, with six actors and one playwright—all Marymount Manhattan alumni—the four-part dramatic symphony “The Human Variations” premiered on February 10 at Red Roots Gallery in Manhattan.
