Faculty News

UC Irvine Drama Faculty Member Marcy Froehlich Receives BroadwayWorld Santa Barbara Nomination

Froehlich recognized for costume design on Ensemble Theatre Company’s Dracula: A Comedy of Errors UC Irvine Claire Trevor School of the Arts Associate Professor of Costume Design Marcy Froehlich has been nominated for a 2025 Santa Barbara BroadwayWorld Award for her work on Dracula: A Comedy of...

Professor Alan Terricciano’s Composition Performed at Carnegie Hall

Terricciano’s piece “Royal Denizens” served as the program-closing Carnegie Hall presentation with additional performances across the globe, marking a notable week for the composer, pianist and associate dean UC Irvine Claire Trevor School of the Arts Professor of Dance and Associate Dean...

Professor Andrew Palermo Choreographs New Sweet Smell of Success at Lincoln Center

The MasterVoices production earned enthusiastic audience response and acclaim for Palermo’s movement direction UC Irvine Claire Trevor School of the Arts Professor of Music Theatre Andrew Palermo choreographed the newly re-envisioned production of Sweet Smell of Success presented by MasterVoices...

Annual TWO-0-NINE Concert Features New Works by ICIT Ph.D. Students

UCI Department of Music’s ICIT program presents original works exploring contemporary composition and emerging sonic technologies Ph.D. students in UC Irvine’s Integrated Composition, Improvisation, and Technology (ICIT) program will present TWO-0-NINE, the annual concert featuring newly...

The 2025 Dance Major Journal Confronts the Realities of Today’s Dance World

Explore the 2025 Dance Major Journal The Department of Dance at UC Irvine’s Claire Trevor School of the Arts announces the release of Dance Major Journal, Volume 13 (2025), a collection of essays written and edited by undergraduate dance majors that examine the current state of the field with...

UCI Drama Wins at 2025 Orange Curtain Review Awards

La Belle et la Bête earns Best College Show alongside 9 to 5’s Best Young Actor honor UC Irvine’s Claire Trevor School of the Arts Department of Drama received top honors at the 2025 Orange Curtain Review Awards, with La Belle et la Bête named Best College Show and actor Drew Downs recognized as...

Professor Irene Messoloras to Release “A Meridian Christmas”

The London-based professional choir returns with a holiday recording under Messoloras’ direction Professor of Music Irene Messoloras and conductor of Meridian return to Signum Classics with their holiday EP, “A Meridian Christmas.” Recorded at All Hallows Gospel Oak in London, the...

Parallel Play: Experiments in Picturing the Arctic

UC Irvine Art Professor Jesse Colin Jackson presents a film installation and colloquium with anthropologist Lindsay Bell, exploring northern life through art and ethnography The UC Irvine Department of Anthropology, Center for Ethnography, and EcoGovLab will host Parallel Play: Experiments in...

UCI Arts Summer 2025 Faculty Highlights

A look at faculty news and creative activity from summer 2025 From curating thought-provoking exhibitions and premiering new choreography to receiving national awards and fellowships, faculty across the UC Irvine Claire Trevor School of the Arts (UCI Arts) remained active throughout the summer....

Art That Moves L.A.

UC Irvine artists featured at the Hammer Biennial By Christine Byrd When Made in L.A. 2025 opens at the Hammer Museum on Oct. 5, the highly anticipated biennial will not only offer insight into the City of Angels’ artistic impulses but also UC Irvine’s growing influence on the region’s art...

UC Irvine’s Claire Trevor School of the Arts Department of Art: A Culmination of Legacy & Resurgence

by Peter Lefevre  Drive past the carefully manicured lawns of Irvine, the most famously planned city in America, and the last words that occur to you might be “radical” and “avant garde.” Yet those are exactly the terms that define the 60-year legacy of UC Irvine’s Department of Art....

UC Irvine Department of Drama Recognized with URTA Excellence Award in Undergraduate Training

National award highlights UC Irvine’s excellence in design and technology training The Department of Drama at UC Irvine’s Claire Trevor School of the Arts has been honored with a 2025 Excellence Award in Undergraduate Training from the University Resident Theatre Association (URTA). UC Irvine...

A Legacy Worth Celebrating

Anniversaries of UC Irvine and the Claire Trevor School of the Arts offer a moment of reflection and possibility By Christine Byrd Every day, UC Irvine students and visitors walk by Claire Trevor’s Oscar and Emmy awards outside the theater named in her honor — golden reminders of that...

Growth and Experimentation: The UCI Claire Trevor School of the Arts (2000-2025)

by Peter Lefevre  It’s the turn of the millennium. We’ve escaped the mortal threat of Y2K. Beanie Babies are the next big thing.  And the UC Irvine School of the Arts is launching itself into a new and transformative era.  It started with a new name.  Orange County...

Origins and Evolution: The UCI Claire Trevor School of the Arts (1965-1999)

by Peter Lefevre  Six decades. 25 Guggenheim Fellows. More than 1,000 students every year, producing hundreds of performances and exhibitions.  Numbers don’t tell the whole story of the UC Irvine Claire Trevor School of the Arts, but they’re a revealing snapshot of the outsized...

Myrona DeLaney Named 2025 Dean’s Honoree

Celebrated for her dedication to cultivating emerging artists Myrona DeLaney, professor of teaching in music theatre and head of the Music Theatre program at the UC Irvine Claire Trevor School of the Arts (UCI Arts), has been named a 2025 Dean’s Honoree by the UCI Celebration of Teaching, part...

Eric Lindsay Named 2025 Lecturer of the Year

Recognized for exceptional achievements in undergraduate teaching Eric Lindsay, lecturer specializing in musicianship, music theory and composition at the UC Irvine Claire Trevor School of the Arts (UCI Arts), has been named the 2025 Lecturer of the Year by the UCI Celebration of Teaching. Part...

UCI Arts Professor Coleman Collins Named 2025–26 Hellman Fellow

The program supports research by accomplished assistant professors Coleman Collins, assistant professor in the Department of Art at the UC Irvine Claire Trevor School of the Arts, has been selected as a 2025–26 Hellman Fellow. His funded proposal, Passagenwerken, continues his interdisciplinary...