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The official account of the MFA Acting Program @northwesternu, established in 2019.

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We’re celebrating the opening of The River Bride at Northwestern’s Wirtz Center Chicago, July 31-Aug. 2, featuring our MFA actors. This sweeping tale of love, family, sacrifice, and magic is set along the banks of the Amazon. We can’t wait to share this unforgettable journey with you. Get your tix, link in bio.

DIRECTOR | Miranda Gonzalez
SCENIC DESIGNER | Chris Wych
COSTUME DESIGNER | Lia Wallfish
LIGHTING DESIGNER | Dylan Reyno
SOUND DESGINER | Lawrence Lewis
INTIMACY DIRECTOR | Ethan Smith
PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER | Becky Warner
ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER | Heath Grossman
DECK/WARDROBE CREW | Sarah Bock
SOUND BOARD OPERATOR/LIGHT PROGRAMMER | Isabella Castro

📸: Justin Barbin, Wirtz Centers

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The River Bride is a story of longing.

For adventure.
To be chosen.
For a life that feels like your own.

What happens when the life you’re expected to live collides with the one your heart can’t let go of?

Join us for The River Bride by Marisela Treviño Orta, directed by Miranda Gonzales, as we bring this beautiful, heartbreaking story to life.

🎭 The River Bride
📍 Abbott Hall, Northwestern University Chicago Campus
🗓️ Opens this week

We can’t wait to share it with you.

🎥: @deantedennisjr
#TheRiverBride #NorthwesternMFA #ChicagoTheatre #LiveTheatre #ChicagoArts

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Daaaa duh duh daaaa duhhh duhhhh 👩‍🎓

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24 was a year of growth through tough times, loss, and perseverance. Here's to 25 being a year of extraordinary progress. Thankful to God for waking me up each day all the same.

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Thank you for being part of our 2024–25 Season!
We loved it so much, we’re giving the recap video an encore. 🎭
Stay tuned—exciting news about our 2025–26 Season is coming your way in early July!
We’re grateful for your continued support of student theatre at Northwestern University’s Wirtz Center for the Performing Arts.

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A glimpse into Vitus — a devised movement piece created as my husband Nic Eastlund’s final capstone project at Northwestern. Grateful to Piper Charlton for co-creating this world with us, and to Brandon Acosta for composing such a stirring score. Congratulations to all the insanely talented Northwestern University Acting MFA grads!

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Congrats to the MFA Actors who shared their talents these last few years and cracked me up along the way! Wishing you all much continued success.

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✨Save the Date✨ Wildcats, make sure to mark your calendars for ShareCase 2025.

This showcase, put on by our #NUSoC MFA in Acting graduate students, will take place in Abbott Hall at Wirtz Center Chicago.

#SoCSeriousPlay #northwestern #northwesternuniversity #Wildcats #theatre #actor

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Closed another one yesterday marking one step closer to wrapping up this grad degree. Wild how time flies! Thankful for this beautiful, brilliant, artful team. 😍

A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay About the Death of Walt Disney
By Lucas Hnath

#WhatsInWaltsHeadWhenWaltsHeadsDead #theatre #mfa #gradschool #thatsawrap #emptyspace

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Since moving to Los Angeles 11 years ago, I’ve danced in deserts, streaked through redwoods, climbed mountains, celebrated milestones with friends, and searched for peace with the person in the mirror. Alongside those joys, I’ve also faced deep grief - losing friends, my beloved grandparents, and enduring physical rehabilitation, unsure if I’d ever walk on stage again. These experiences have transformed me and reshaped how I understand myself and my art. ✨✨✨

Now, it’s time for a new chapter. I’m beyond elated to be joining Northwestern’s MFA Acting Program 🎭 @nu_actingmfa 💜🤍 I’m ready to train, to deepen, and to grow as a human.

To everyone in LA who shaped me, challenged me, and stood by me - thank you. 🥹💞 You’re in everything I carry forward.

💕🥂 Here’s to my next act, with a fuller heart and steadier feet.

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WQ 25🫶🏽

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Photo dump because I was able to see some incredible shows this summer, many of which featuring my annoyingly talented friends.

I'm CERTAIN I forgot something/someone. But my phone's about to die, so we get what we get...)

🧟‍♀️ Death Becomes Her at Broadway in Chicago

🌽 Tom's flawless Jennifer Coolidge at Cornservatory

🏴‍☠️ Ship Shape in a torrential downpour at Bristol Renaissance Faire

🎥 Jane Austen Ruined my Life at TIFF

👯‍♀️ Bess and Marley being Bristol Ren Faire's indy darlings.

🎸 AIRNESS at Northwestern with half of my brilliant cohort!

👑 Cymbeline at Stratford Theatre Festival
(Also Something Rotten but I didn't get a picture because we ran in late, holding iced coffee... 🍳)

🪩 BINGO LOCOOOOOOO

🧚‍♂️ A Midsummer's Night Dream, aka Another Shakespeare Company's debut showwwww

🏀 Basketball Crush with music director Markey cosplaying as Sporty Spice

🗺️ The Devil's in the Detours at Second City (STARRING OUR STAR KIM ON SECOND CITY MAINSTAGE)

☕️ Jack's ever-brilliant one man show (we searched far and wide for the worst lighting possible for this picture, and I think we succeeded!)

🪄Road Signs at Red Orchid. Didn't take a picture sooooo here's Seth!

🎤 Haley's character showcases at iO

🇨🇦 Second City again but this time in Toronto!

🚪 Invited dress of Noises Off! at Steppenwolf

🧸 Gag Reflex at Annoyance with our CW sis

🧙‍♂️ I didn't get a picture of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child's student preview. But Libby was dying of jet lag the entire time, so this feels like a good substitute.

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