Theatre of Arts

New Alumni News!

ALAND BRIFKANI (class of 2012) has been booked to play Jessie James in ‘The Assassination of Jessie James’ for the American Film Institute Graduate students project. Congratulations Aland!

Jennifer Chambers to direct Summer 2013 production of “Twelve Angry Men”

Jennifer is the co-founder of Green Beetle Productions and Wilder Theatrics. She has worked as a director, teacher, and drama therapist. She has a BA from Northwestern and an MA in drama therapy from The California Institute of Integral Studies. For Jennifer’s full biography, please see our faculty page

TOA TEACHER ROB NAGLE PERFORMS “FIRST PERSON: SEEING AMERICA”

The history of our country’s extraordinary people was brought to life through words, live music and iconic images in the Luther College Center Stage Series performance of “First Person: Seeing America.” Actor Rob Nagle and actress Lily Knight narrated a series of photographs from the metropolitan Museum of Art set to the backdrop of original

Arena Screen Holds Q & A with 56UP director Michael Apted.

Michael Apted, director of “56UP”, gave a Q and A session at Theatre of Arts ARENA SCREEN!

Spotlight on Alumni Yuki Matsuzaki

Hard work and TOA training was recognized when Edward Zwick cast alumni Yuki Matsuzaki for The Last Samurai in 2003. He booked roles in the films Drunken Sword (2005) and Roku (2005). Clint Eastwood then cast him as Nozaki in Letters from Iwo Jima (2006). Yuki also was cast in the TV shows Heroes and

Spotlight on Lauren Glazier

In her final year at Theatre of Arts, Lauren Glazier has had a great start to her acting career. Lauren worked with Katherine Heigl, Tom Selleck and Catherine O’Hara in Lionsgate film “The Killers“(2010). Earlier she played Anita Hoffman in “The Chicago 8” (alongside Gary Cole, Danny Masterson, Phillip Baker Hall) which just won best feature

Crossing the Atlantic by James Warwick

‘Don’t think about working in America unless you are met at the airport in a limousine’. I read this in The Stage twenty years ago, written by an actor who had just come back from a largely unfulfilled exploratory trip to Hollywood. I honestly don’t think much has changed. Having lived here now for some years,