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NYU Steinhardt Drama Therapy Program The NYU Program in Drama Therapy trains students to translate their love of theatre into skilled care to support clinical and community health.

Graduates are eligible to become Licensed Creative Arts Therapists in the state of New York. Students receive culturally responsible, clinical training to use improvisation and theatre techniques to address a range of mental health, rehabilitation, and social concerns.

It was a joy to welcome Dr. Soohyun Ma back to NYU Drama Therapy for a recent visit.An alumna of NYU Steinhardt’s Drama ...
09/05/2026

It was a joy to welcome Dr. Soohyun Ma back to NYU Drama Therapy for a recent visit.

An alumna of NYU Steinhardt’s Drama Therapy MA Educational Theatre PhD community, Soohyun is a researcher, educator, and practitioner who teaches at Dongduk Women’s University in South Korea and has contributed to the development of drama therapy in Korea. Her work explores the culturally responsive application of drama therapy, including the use of ethnodrama to address social stigma and theatre-based approaches with adolescents in special education.

Visits like these remind us that our community extends far beyond Washington Square — through alumni who continue to adapt, teach, research, and advance drama therapy in different cultural contexts around the world.

Welcome back, Soohyun! 💜

Housing is healthcare. So is creativity and connection.A new study led by NYU Drama Therapy researchers Anamarija Vuić a...
06/21/2026

Housing is healthcare. So is creativity and connection.

A new study led by NYU Drama Therapy researchers Anamarija Vuić and Dr. Nisha Sajnani found that residents in supportive housing who participated in 12 weeks of drama therapy felt more supported, more connected, and more engaged in community life. Participants spoke of breaking out of their shells, building trust, and finding their voice.

Made possible through the generous support of Ilse Melamid and in partnership with Breaking Ground, this work demonstrates the power of creative arts therapies to strengthen community, belonging, and wellbeing.

The project was also highlighted as a case example in a recently released US report on the role of arts, culture, and leisure in fostering social connection.

Find the open-access study and the report links in bio.

Drama therapy isn’t an extra. It may be part of the solution to loneliness, isolation, and community wellbeing. ✨

Check the link in our bio to see a new video on Care Corps! Care Corps is a six-week training including simulated clinic...
06/14/2026

Check the link in our bio to see a new video on Care Corps!
Care Corps is a six-week training including simulated clinical environments and classroom education. This program serves to train medical professionals to support serious mental illness. This video features Dana Trottier, an NYU Drama Therapy alum and faculty member, who is the Simulation Fellowship Director at NYC Health + Hospitals. It’s a beautiful example of education and community support to help support all New Yorkers, especially those in need of mental healthcare!

06/04/2026

✨🌪️💛 OPENING NIGHT, BABY! 💛🌪️✨

The road to Oz isn’t always easy…

Sometimes you’re scared. 😱
Sometimes you’re uncertain. 🤔
Sometimes you’re walking into the unknown with nothing but your courage, your friends, and a little bit of glitter. ✨👠🌈

But here’s the secret…

✨ Courage isn’t the absence of fear.
✨ Magic isn’t the absence of struggle.
✨ Home isn’t a destination…it’s something we discover within ourselves.

Tonight, Dorothy and her crew take the first sparkling steps down the Yellow Brick Road in THE WIZZIE: A Journey of Grief, Growth, & Glitter, a dazzling, Afrofuturist celebration of resilience, identity, friendship, and finding your way home.

From tornadoes to transformations…
From fear to fabulousness…
From “What if?” to “Why not?”

Our extraordinary young artists have poured their hearts, stories, dreams, and brilliance into every moment of this production, and we cannot wait to share their magic with you.

🌈✨ Follow the glitter.
👠✨ Trust the journey.
💖✨ Remember who you are.

The adventure begins TONIGHT.

FollowTheYellowBrickRoad BlackBoxMagic YouthTheatre Afrofuturism GlitterAndGrowth ThereIsNoPlaceLikeHome OpeningNightEnergy NYU CollideoscopeRepertoryTheatreCompany 🌪️✨💛👠🌈💖

06/03/2026

🎭 SOLD-OUT WIZZIE OPENS TOMORROW 🎭

>>SEE BELOW FOR WAITLIST INFORMATION

✨🪩👠THE WIZZIE 👠🪩✨Ease on down the road into a glitter-soaked, soul-shaking journey through grief, growth, healing, joy, ...
05/28/2026

✨🪩👠THE WIZZIE 👠🪩✨

Ease on down the road into a glitter-soaked, soul-shaking journey through grief, growth, healing, joy, and liberation. Inspired by The Wiz, the soulful adaptation of The Wizard of Oz, and the lived stories of our ensemble, THE WIZZIE is a bold, genre-bending theatrical experience created through NYU’s CollideOscope Repertory Theatre Company (CRTC).

Developed by an extraordinary ensemble of BIPOC youth artists and interns, this dazzling reimagining blends theatre, movement, music, media, devised storytelling, high glamour, and unapologetic imagination into a technicolored explosion of heart, humor, resilience, friendship, and transformation. 🌈✨

💜 This is Oz through OUR lens.
✨ This is GLITTER as RESISTANCE.
🎤 This is HEALING with CHOREOGRAPHY.
🌪️ This is what happens when YOUNG ARTISTS OF COLOR are given space to DREAM loudly, boldly, and beautifully!

Built through a grief centered, trauma-aware, and community-centered creative process, THE WIZZIE invites audiences into a world where survival sparkles, vulnerability becomes power, and self-discovery takes center stage.

Come for the glitter. 🪩
Stay for the transformation. ✨

📍 Black Box Theatre — NYU Steinhardt
🗓 June 4–6, 2026 at 8PM
🗓 June 7, 2026 at 3PM
>>LINK IN BIO

A moment from our program celebration and toast to the graduating class of 2026!
05/13/2026

A moment from our program celebration and toast to the graduating class of 2026!

Congratulations to the cast and crew of this year’s production of Witness Theater! It is an important organization that ...
05/04/2026

Congratulations to the cast and crew of this year’s production of Witness Theater! It is an important organization that highlights the significance of telling stories by working with high school students to perform narratives of local Holocaust survivors. Our NYU drama therapy students who are interning at this site have held these stories with great compassion. Thank you and congratulations to the interns, students, survivors, and audience members who make this work possible.
Pictured: NYU faculty, students, and alumni at the final performance of Witness Theater 2026

Congratulations to first year Drama Therapy student Jayla Dyas on being awarded the The Social Sector Leadership Diversi...
04/30/2026

Congratulations to first year Drama Therapy student Jayla Dyas on being awarded the
The Social Sector Leadership Diversity Fellowship. Jayla is a leader whose presence is rooted in kindness, generosity, and groundedness.
See a quote below about what this fellowship means:
“The Social Sector Leadership Diversity Fellowship (SSLD) offers an intensive, cohort-based opportunity that centers leadership development and community building. SSLD introduces critical leadership theories, offers personalized support, and provides opportunities for fellows to practice the skills required to lead ethically, inclusively, and collaboratively in their chosen fields.“ Congrats Jayla!!

Generations of drama therapists convening celebrating the arts as health resource in public health and clinical care...
04/14/2026

Generations of drama therapists convening celebrating the arts as health resource in public health and clinical care.

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