I was born in Munich, Germany, but moved to California right before I turned a year old; so unfortunately, I do not speak German. I lived in San Jose until I was eight, then I moved to San Diego, where I have been for the latter half of my life.
I was born in Munich, Germany, but moved to California right before I turned a year old; so unfortunately, I do not speak German. I lived in San Jose until I was eight, then I moved to San Diego, where I have been for the latter half of my life.
Second-year student Zora Williams is using her voice to bring more mental health and nutrition programming to San Diego Mesa College. Williams was elected president of the college’s Associated Students (AS) for the 2024-2025 academic year and serves as the college’s student representative on the San Diego Community College District Board of Trustees.
Sometimes, you hear a story that makes you want to know more. Kevin Gonzalez has such a story. The last time this story was updated, San Diego Mesa College student Kevin Gonzalez was a 15 year-old heading off to Massachusetts to complete his high school education. In the ensuing years, he has travelled to the other side of the world, built houses, but remained in close contact with his Mesa College professors and connections he made while on campus.
March 20, 2024 | Emma Rodriguez
On Monday, March 11, Mesa Dramatic Arts majors were thrilled when five Mesa College alumni came to speak with current students about their journey in the performing arts thus far. The panel, titled Life Post Mesa in the Performing Arts: Transfer and more, was organized by Drama Professor George Ye’. He explained that he wanted to show current students a “cross section of people with different pathways.”
Read It NowFiled Under: Dramatic Arts, LatestNews, Press Release, Alumni
May 09, 2018 | Office of Communications
San Diego, CA ---- On Saturday, May 12 at 2:00 p.m., San Diego Mesa College Dramatic Arts presents, “You Will Be Found”, a musical revue featuring hit songs from Chicago, Rent, Coco, LaLaLand, The Greatest Showman and many more. The benefit performance serves as a fundraiser for scholarships for Drama students.
Read It NowFiled Under: Press Release, The Greatest Showman, Theatre, LaLaLand, Coco, Dramatic Arts, Chicago, Drama Department, Theatre Students, Musical Theatre, "You Will Be Found", Rent
March 16, 2017 | Lauren J. Mapp
Students from San Diego Mesa College’s Department of Dramatic Arts will be performing Karel Švenk’s “The Last Cyclist” for a second - and closing - weekend starting March 17.
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December 12, 2016 | Lauren J. Mapp
As part of this semester’s costume making class, students enrolled in Drama 200 have been making dresses to be donated to the Little Dresses for Africa charity organization that helps to clothe children living in 81 countries in and around Africa.
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August 24, 2016 | Office of Communications
The immigrant experience is coming to the stage in a new devised theater event that begins this fall at San Diego Mesa College. Students, performers, and anyone with a story, experience or interest in immigration are invited to enroll in Drama 268, Experimental Theatre. The class begins Saturday at 9 a.m. in the Apolliad Theatre at Mesa College.
Read It NowFiled Under: play, drama, immigration, playwright, Dramatic Arts, Theater
January 01, 2016 | Office of Communications
San Diego Mesa College is premiering a new, ensemble-created, experimental theatre production of UN-SHELTERED. This is an original play about homelessness based upon the compelling interviews conducted by Mesa College Experimental Theatre students with San Diego’s downtown homeless. The stage play premieres on Tuesday, April 12, and runs through April 17 at the Apolliad Theatre at Mesa College.
Read It NowFiled Under: Dramatic Arts, Theater, Homeless
May 12, 2015 | Office of Communications
San Diego Mesa College’s Drama Department is bringing homelessness to the stage with an original workshop production entitled, “Un-Sheltered,” a compilation of vignettes based on student interviews with the homeless in downtown San Diego.
Read It NowFiled Under: Homeless, Theater, Dramatic Arts