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Georgetown’s Davis Performing Arts Center opened its doors in Fall 2005, and the theater community has been creating radical and unexpected work ever since. We’re celebrating over fifteen years of performance, activism, interdisciplinary scholarship, diversity and collaboration, and we’re sharing the stories of those who know the program best - our alumni. The Davis Center’s core values animate our daily work, and our Alumni personify them.

Our Values Embodied

Explore the six values that animate Georgetown’s Davis Center for the Performing Arts. Learn about the Davis Center’s impact and diverse community. Our alumni live and breathe these values. They made the first fifteen years possible and will make the next fifteen years a profound gift for those who join us at Georgetown and in spirit.

Interdisciplinary & Intersectional

Creative Rigor

Equity & Social Justice

Community Collaboration

Whole Person Engagement

Cross-Cultural & Global

Two actors on a large play stage. — Betsy Helmer (C’13), Marina Young (C’13), and Jeremy Guyton (C’12) as the Three Witches on the set of *MacBeth*, in an ensemble staging directed by Prof. Maya E. Roth, with scenic design by Prof. Natsu Onoda Power, stage managed by Joey Blakley (C’14); this co-production with M&B was featured in the 2011-2012 season, *Nature’s Mirror*.

“The Davis center was my home away from home. I spent most of my happy hours at Georgetown in that building. It taught me that my creative passions could be made real, that I didn’t have to wear a suit and tie to be successful. And I refuse to stop dreaming, even to this day.”
Claytia Gonsalves (SFS’15)

“When I came to Georgetown I never thought of myself as someone who was destined to work in theater after college (when I started I thought I would be pre-med!). I didn’t come to school looking for theatrical training. The TPST program discovered me, in a way, and I was totally swept up. It truly was home for me at Georgetown.”
Chase Meacham (C’14)

“When I’m in the Davis Center, it’s like I’m Theseus. It’s this labyrinthine building: there’s a staircase there? What does this door open to? I remember walking into the Davis Center for the first time, and thinking this is an amazing hall, not even understanding that all the good, carnal, beautiful work happens in this underbelly beneath it of these offices and these blackbox spaces that are always occupied by students. Always…. I’m going to slay some monsters in this bad boy and I’m going to have some labors, but that is what this space allows us to be able to do.”
Alex Prout (C’19)

Our alumni are our legacy

Meet our alumni community of artists

The Davis Center’s multifaceted community members bring varied academic interests, degrees and professional ambitions. Our alumni came of age in one of America’s most unique research, learning and social engagement labs —the Davis Center— working side by side with each other, faculty, guest artists, and alumni.

Part of our 2021-22 Home season, this website combines insights from over 200 alumni survey responses and anecdotes from Alumni salons, creating a cross-sectional view of this community.

Alumni attest that the first 15 years of the Davis Center encouraged students to have an expansive vision for who they can be as artists and as people.

Our alumni influence stages and boardrooms, classrooms and crisis zones around the world. Today, we’re so excited to share our community’s stories with you.

The culmination of an 18-month project, this web experience was created by Andrew Dolan (COL ‘10), Maya E. Roth, founding Artistic Director of the Davis Center, and Derek Goldman, Chair of the Department of Performing Arts with Community Engagement Manager Vanessa Gilbert and DC-based Graphic Designer Marcela Morales.

The Alumni Spotlights are a primary feature of this project and will rotate periodically to share ever more from this group, and our alumni data will be refreshed.