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Department of Performing Arts
Offering programs in arts management, audio technology, dance, music, and theatre.



Auditions for all musical ensembles are open during the first week of classes or by appointment.
Performing Arts Contacts
- General Performing Arts
- Richard Streeks at 202-885-3422 or streeks@american.edu
- Arts Management
- Ximena Varela at 202-885-3883 or varela@american.edu
- Audio Technology
- Michael Harvey at 202-885-6302 or mharvey@american.edu
- Dance
- Britta Joy Peterson at 202-885-1432 or bjp@american.edu
- Music
- Nancy Snider at 202-885-3872 or nsnider@american.edu
- Theatre/Musical Theatre
- Karl Kippola at 202-885-3464 or kippola@american.edu
Auditions
Scheduling for degree program auditions for Theatre, Musical Theatre, and Music are now available via our new DPA application portal, linked on our program audition pages:
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Caleen Sinnette Jennings appeared on PBS NewsHour to discuss D.C.'s Women's Voices Theater Festival. Jennings said, "What's important is the fact that the story is worth telling, and the story is worth seeing. I think women of my generation wrestled with that thought. It's good to see younger women coming along and saying, 'Why was this even a question?'"