Sands College of Performing Arts at Pace University

10/08/2025

Breaking barriers. Building access.

Sands College of Performing Arts and Deaf West Theatre are joining forces to make musical education accessible for all.

Together, we’re developing a first-of-its-kind American Sign Language (ASL) music theory lexicon—a groundbreaking resource that’s transforming how Deaf and hard-of-hearing artists learn, move, and perform.

Because when access meets artistry, everyone takes center stage.

🔗Read the full story:

Beginning this fall, Pace University’s Sands College of Performing Arts and Deaf West Theatre, the Tony-honored company known for pioneering bilingual productions in American Sign Language (ASL) and English, are launching a groundbreaking artist-in-residence program focused on bridging performance...

10/04/2025

Congratulations to our talented alumni Jack Barrett (BFA in Acting) and Quinn Allyn Martin (BFA in Musical Theater) on their roles in the Stereophonic U.S. tour! Jack stars as Grover, and Quinn is the understudy for Diana. 🎭

Meet the cast of the U.S. Tour of Stereophonic.

10/03/2025

Ready to change lives through theater—and start with your own? This immersive Spring 2026 course takes you to Zanzibar, Tanzania, where you’ll collaborate with secondary school students to create a powerful piece of community-based theatre. 🌍

Join Dean Holmes for an upcoming infosession!
📅 Friday, October 10
🕒 Time: 11:05 a.m.—12:05 p.m.
📍 Location: 140 William Street, Room 602

📅 Friday, October 31
🕒 Time: 12:20 p.m.—1:15 p.m.
📍 Location: 161 William Street, 16th Floor

📣Early action deadline is Nov. 15
✈️ Spring Course with Summer travel: June 19–July 4

🔗Learn more and apply: https://brnw.ch/21wWkxb

09/27/2025

Setters aren’t just setting the stage, but setting themselves high at number FIVE on Playbill's top ten most represented colleges on Broadway, and we couldn’t be prouder!✨

Find out which colleges and universities had the most alumni performing on Broadway during the 2024-25 season.

09/26/2025

We hit the studio and brought our Pace pride! 💪

Commercial Dance alumni got their hearts pumping in a live full-body Strength class led by Callie Gullickson'16 at Peloton Studios NYC. staff from Student Engagement, the Counseling Center, and Alumni Relations also joined in!

09/18/2025

The future of performance is here. 🎭

Last week, we officially launched our new BFA in Performance Making with an unforgettable evening of storytelling, community, and bold creative vision.

Huge thanks to our incredible panelists, guests, and student artists who joined us—this is only the beginning. ✨

Panelists:
🎤Anne Bogart, Director, Author, Associate Director, SITI Company
🎤Ari Fliakos, Actor, Member, Wooster Group
🎤Leigh Fondakowski, Tectonic Member, Head Writer, Laramie Project
🎤Anne Hamburger, Founder, Artistic Director, En Garde Arts

Moderated by:
🎓Dean Jennifer Holmes, Sands College of Performing Arts

09/11/2025

On this day of remembrance, we honor those lost on 9/11, including the 47 Pace students and alumni whose memory lives on within the Pace Community.

Join us as we gather to reflect and remember.
📍NYC Campus
Veteran Services
161 William Street, 7th Floor
1:00 p.m.

09/08/2025

Have you ever heard about the group of Catholic priests and nuns who became cat burglars to sabotage the Vietnam draft? 😮

Brendan Patrick Hughes, Associate Program Head of the Acting for Film and Media BFA, brings Boston’s Catholic anti-Vietnam War movement to life in "Divine Intervention," a gripping documentary podcast series recently featured in The Boston Globe, which calls it “an ensemble masterpiece.” This 10-episode saga chronicles real protest, moral conviction, and a story rooted in Hughes’s own past.

📰 Read the article in The Boston Globe: https://brnw.ch/21wVziL

🎧 Listen to the podcast: https://brnw.ch/21wVziM

09/05/2025

We’re putting performance into practice! 🎭

Join us to celebrate the launch of our new BFA in Performance Making—a bold program built for creators, collaborators, and changemakers. With immersive training in acting and directing, a focus on devised work, and global opportunities, this program prepares students to bring powerful new stories to life.

🌟 A panel of visionary industry leaders
🎤 Remarks from faculty and program leadership
✨ A reception to connect and celebrate

📍 Wednesday, September 10 at 7:00 p.m.
📍 15 Beekman Street, 3rd Floor | NYC Campus

🔗 RSVP by September 9:
https://bit.ly/SandsBFAPM

09/04/2025

Huge congratulations to Musical Theater alum Grace Rundberg ’25 on joining the cast of The Notebook as Georgie and understudy for middle Allie. From Pace to the national stage—we couldn’t be prouder!🌟

Grace Ohwensadeyo Rundberg as Georgie/Concierge/Others in The Notebook North American Tour 💌

09/04/2025

The 35th Annual Komen Race for the Cure is happening this Sunday, September 7, at Central Park!

📅 You don’t have to be there on race day to make a difference!

You can:
✔️ Join the Pace team (in person or virtually)
✔️ Help us raise money
✔️ Spread the word and build awareness

Every step and every dollar counts toward a future without breast cancer. Let’s make this our largest team yet—and raise the most we ever have.

Together, we race for hope. We race for cures. And we race for those we love. https://brnw.ch/21wVtiu

08/26/2025

BFA Acting alum Cole Taylor will soon light up The Public Theater stage in Oh Happy Day! 🎶 Learn more about the show and grab your tickets: https://publictheater.org/productions/season/2526/oh-happy-day/

An impending flood is the least of the Johnson family’s troubles in this outrageous reimagining of Noah’s Ark from Tony Award-nominated writer and director duo Jordan E. Cooper and Stevie Walker-Webb.