![Two PLU students smile into the camera. The student on the left is wearing a green and white stripped shirt and glasses and has short dark hair. The student on the right it wearing a pink short sleeved shirt and has shoulder length red hair.](https://www.plu.edu/admission/wp-content/uploads/sites/16/2023/07/20230517_sb_senior-spotlights_005-1400x780-1-725x408.jpeg)
Dylan Ruggeri ’23 and Kenzie Knapp ‘24 make a musical about climate change
Together, senior Dylan Ruggeri ’23 and junior Kenzie Knapp ’24 created an innovative climate science musical performance on PLU’s campus in 2022. Both students are majoring in environmental studies and theatre, and the duo drew on their passions to create art, transforming audience perspectives on…
How to be a Lute: Performing Arts
Miranda Gonzalez ’23 gives you the rundown on all the programs, clubs and organizations that work out of the Karen Hille Phillips Center for the Performing Arts, otherwise known as KHP.
![PLU student Ashton Allen leads campers in a dance number outside of Trinity Lutheran Church. The campers are on a stage, while Ashton performs in front of them from the grass.](https://www.plu.edu/admission/wp-content/uploads/sites/16/2022/11/camp-songs-cover-725x408.jpeg)
PLU music majors produce free music camp
It’s a warm summer morning and the scent of scrambled eggs drifts from the kitchen at Trinity Lutheran Church into an adjoining room where more than a dozen campers busily make beaded jewelry. Ranging from second to sixth grade, the kids are participants in the…
![Z Rich sits in front of a microphone wearing a yellow bandana and cream colored sweater. Fulton Anderson-Bryant stands to her left touching an iPad. Both are wearing headphones.](https://www.plu.edu/admission/wp-content/uploads/sites/16/2022/11/students-wow-web-725x408.png)
PLU students present ‘The War of the Worlds’
Theatre major Zivia Rich ’24 loves a good story. She is especially fond of them in the form of a radio show or podcast. Growing up, the Seattle-area native spent much of her time listening to KUOW, their local National Public Radio station. “We have…
![Peyton Noreen smiles at the camera while leaning against a wall. They have blonde hair and are wearing a brown shirt and pants.](https://www.plu.edu/admission/wp-content/uploads/sites/16/2022/08/img_0602-533x408.jpg)
Summer Internships: Theatre
In high school, Peyton Noreen ’23 loved participating in theatre productions. Noreen’s passion for the stage wasn’t something they were ready to give up on when they enrolled at Pacific Lutheran University. It’s why they chose to major in theatre and why they’re spending the…
Musical Theater student reflects on favorite shows
Melanie Young ’22 will graduate this spring with a BFA in Musical Theater. In this interview —that took place right before the opening of the musical “Pippin” —she discusses her experience and excitement around the return of live theatre.
Major Minute: Tom Smith on Theatre & Dance
PLU’s Theatre & Dance Department prides itself on our dynamic and challenging curriculum supported by a season of up to 10 productions each year. Our program trains students in all aspects of theatre and dance: from musical theatre, acting, technical theatre and design, to foundational…
![Temple and Guiterrez pose for a photo.](https://www.plu.edu/admission/wp-content/uploads/sites/16/2021/01/parrish_pluyakima_122320-4-640x408.jpg)
Yakima area students find a home away from home
About two and a half hours east of Tacoma sits the farming community of Yakima, Washington. The Central Washington county has about 243,000 residents and is probably most notable for producing the majority of the nation’s apples and hops. But it’s also where Henry Temple…
![The cast of "Spectrums of Color" takes a curtain call after a performance.](https://www.plu.edu/admission/wp-content/uploads/sites/16/2019/10/spec-of-color37.jpg)
Refracting Spectrums of Color
Nayonni “Nai Nai” Watts has autism, and she’s not afraid to be open and honest about it. “If people want to learn about autism, it’s best to learn from an autistic person rather than a non-autistic person,” she says. In January Watts debuted her student-led…
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