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.”

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.