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Lehigh Theatre champions academic diversity through student-led productions and class opportunities.

Spencer Duff’s future is illuminated by possibility. As he reflects on the last three years at Lehigh Duff, of Newark, Delaware will graduate in May with an (IDEAS), a national undergraduate theatre award and plans to pursue a Master of Fine Arts in Lighting Design in San Diego this fall.

Celeste Varricchio ’73, producing artistic director and founder of Mosaic Dance Theater Company, cut her theater chops in Lehigh’s Mustard and Cheese Club — and set the stage for her future investment in Lehigh’s theater opportunities for students.

When theatregoers see a set designed by Lehigh associate professor of theatre Will Lowry, they’re seeing the result of a creative journey.

Audiences attending the off-Broadway premiere of the play House of Telescopes entered a magical world fashioned collaboratively by three Lehigh theatre faculty and an alumnus of its theatre program.

Director Héctor Alvarez explores a form of theater that breaks the rules of traditional drama.

Two theatre professors use a first-year seminar to explore the question of whether artificial intelligence can create art.

In the early hours of May 13, 1862, Robert Smalls and a crew composed of fellow slaves, stole a cotton steamer in Charleston, SC, picked up family members at a rendezvous point, then navigated their way through the harbor. Once clear of the harbor and outside of Confederate waters, he had his crew surrendered his ship to the blockading Union fleet. Smalls would later go on to serve five terms in the US House of Representatives. His amazing life was depicted in an October world premiere production of Finding Freedom, The Journey of Robert Smalls, at the Gaillard Center in Charleston, with media design by Joseph Amodei.

Daphnie Sicre was born in Ecuador and raised in Spain until she came to the U.S. at age 15. She was told that she wasn’t really college material.

Kahn came to Lehigh as an engineering student, but the environment on South Mountain encouraged him to explore and experiment. Within his first year, he was working on stage as an actor. Soon he was pursuing both degrees.

Micklin dreamed of being a pediatrician until he shadowed one during high school. That’s when his pre-med plans changed. His love of languages then sent him toward a degree in Russian.

Ingram came to Lehigh to study civil engineering. By the end of his first year, he switched to IDEAS, the four-year integrated honors program. Eventually he became a theatre major.