School of Performing Arts

​Department of Theatre & Dance | Advocacy, Allyship & Access

​The Department of Theatre and Dance at UWSP is committed to creating an equitable, inclusive, and accessible educational environment for all of our students. Our Advocacy, Allyship and Access Committee has created a five-year Action Plan devoted to reviewing and renewing this commitment in the areas of Artistic Inclusion, Community Outreach, Student Concerns, Curriculum, and Faculty Recruitment and Development. We meet bi-weekly to work towards initiatives within our plan, including: grant funding proposals for residencies by guest artists from global majority and other underrepresented groups; ideas and concerns presented by student representatives to the committee; and review of season planning, curriculum, and casting/conflict resolution practices. Please feel free to contact either Lisa Golda, Committee Chair, or Michael Estanich, Department Chair, with any questions you may have about the educational climate in our Department.

Please click the button above to view learning experiences created and/or implemented in departmental response to incidents of implicit bias and racism.

COMMITTEE LEADERS

Michael Estanich
Theatre & Dance Department Chair
mestanic@uwsp.edu

Lisa Sanderson (Golda)
AAA Committee Chair
lsanders@uwsp.edu

SCHEDULE A VISIT!

• UWSP Stand Amplify Speak
• We See You
• Broadway Advocacy Coalition
• Musicians United for Social Equity

• Land-grab universities: 
  Expropriated Indigenous land is the foundation of the land-grant university system.​​

• 'Wind at My Back' is a story of two unapologetically Black ballerinas
  

• Why 'KPOP,' the first Broadway show to tell a Korean story, closed in just two weeks
  

• Best Broadway Theaters
  of 2022
  

• With Namor, Wakanda Forever Does What Latine Media Will Not

• Award-winning play ‘American Moor’ set for UW-Stevens Point

• An Oscars Apology for Sacheen Littlefeather, 50 Years After Brando Protest
  

• An Audition Power Shift: Princeton Tries On a New Approach
  

• Who Can Play the King?
  

• Why so Much Rain on Beanie's Parade?

• A Nonbinary Swan, on Pointe
  

• Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson makes history as 1st Black woman confirmed to US Supreme Court

• Land-grab universities - Expropriated Indigenous land is the foundation of the land-grant university system.

• An Introduction to Neurodiversity for the Lighting Designer and Educator
  

• How starring in ‘Hedwig and the Angry Inch’ helped one actor understand their own sense of gender identity
  
  

• Emilie Kouatchou makes 'Phantom' history on Broadway
  

• UprootedThe 1950s plan to erase Indian Country
  

• UW-Stevens Point drama "Red Velvet" puts hidden history in the spotlight
  

• View promotional video

• ‘We share responsibility for acknowledging the pain’: Wisconsin issues apology for role in Native American boarding schools

• 'Government Bans Words' Seems Like a Free Speech Issue
  

• Hispanic Heritage Month: Trio Of Hispanic Stars Headline ‘Chicago’ As Hit Show Returns To Broadway

• Welcome to Broadway!¡Bienvenido a Broadway!

• Leslie Odom Jr., Audra McDonald Will Host Tony Awards and Broadway’s Back Concert

• Derek Chauvin found guilty

• Black Arts MKE Selected for the Black Seed National Strategic Initiative to Support Equity for Black Theater Institutions

• Race on Campus 

• Please use this button to submit anonymous feedback, suggestions, concerns, or support regarding your experiences with equity, diversity, and inclusion in the UWSP Department of Theatre and Dance. Your comments will be forwarded to Michael Estanich, Chair of the Department, and Lisa Sanderson, Chair of the Advocacy Allyship and Access Committee. If you would like us to respond to you individually, you are welcome to include your contact information.  We will share feedback received and actions taken to respond on a monthly basis on this page – see AAA Action. If you wish your feedback to be excluded from the monthly summary, please indicate that in your comments as well.