Faculty
Space Booking
Faculty and staff at College of the Holy Cross may use the form at the link below to submit requests for booking space at The Prior for events including presentations, receptions, showings and more.
Faculty & Staff Discount
Faculty and staff benefit from discounted tickets for all Prior Presents events. We are pleased to offer a 20% faculty and staff discount attached to your faculty/staff email address to be used for up to four tickets per person per event.
Read the following instructions on how to collect this exclusive discount in your Prior Presents ticket order:
1) Before you purchase tickets to an event, make sure you log into your Holy Cross account by clicking “Login” in the purple section above “Select Your Own Seats.” Then, click the purple button reading “Holy Cross Student/Faculty/Staff Log-in” to sign in with your campus SSO.
Note: Signing into your account will activate your discount options. The discount will not be added unless you sign into your account first.
2) When selecting your seats, click on the desired seat to see the exclusive faculty/staff discount price appear, and select up to 4 discounted tickets per event.
3) At the purchase summary page, confirm that your discount is applied.
If you don’t see your Holy Cross discount, DO NOT PURCHASE. Remove all events from your cart, log into your account, and re-select your seats.
4) If you do not see your discount applied, please contact the box office at priorboxoffice@holycross.edu.
Arts Transcending Borders | reimagined
The Prior is happy to announce a newly reimagined Arts Transcending Borders program (ATB|r) seeking to provide opportunities for individual faculty to conceptualize unique, arts-inspired engagements. As an extension of the artistic curatorship role of the Nancy Savage Skinner ‘79 Director, proposals will be reviewed, and those approved will be slated for inclusion in the 2027-28 presenting season. Acting as producer, the Director will personally take on each of the approved projects and work to bring the concept elements to life. The workflows of the Prior teams will be activated to provide financial, promotional, production, and engagement support. The program seeks to enrich the overall offerings of the Prior Performing Arts Center, add to the depth of the ecosystem of the college, and provide meaningful connections more broadly.
Proposals will include two elements: a Transcendent Community Engagement Residency culminating in a Capstone Artistic Expression. The Community Engagement should consist of a short-duration residency filled with imaginative and impactful interactions that might include, but are not be limited to, master classes, skill-building exercises, applied workshops, panel conversations, rapid ideations, or design sprints. The interactions should be aimed to bring together constituents of our community in transcendent ways. The effort should find ways to connect disparate departmental and academic disciplines, including the introduction of unique curricular assignments. It should also find ways to bridge social, cultural, religious, generational, and geographic communities both within the college and beyond the campus boundaries. The Capstone Artistic Expression can span a broad array of formats, including performances, presentations, or screenings. The effort should aim to have those connected through the Transcendent Community Engagements gather for a shared experience of the Capstone Artistic Expression.
Application Form & Deadline
If interested in being considered for the Arts Transcending Borders reimagined 2027-28 program, please fill out the online application form before 5 p.m. on Thursday, May 14, 2026.
Curricular Engagement with The Prior
The Prior Performing Arts Center supports meaningful engagement with the arts for students across the College, advancing the Holy Cross’ commitment to inclusive excellence by exposing students to models of creative practice that emphasize process, experimentation, and risk.
We partner with colleagues from every department to foster innovative experiential learning opportunities inspired by the multidisciplinary arts, and we welcome your ideas about ways you might draw on the center’s unique resources in your teaching.
Visiting artists in any season are typically available for classroom visits and other curricular connections while in residence at Holy Cross. To explore the possibility of connecting your class with a visiting artist, contact Marta Beyer at mbeyer@holycross.edu. Prior staff will be glad to provide you with class-specific materials, share residency resources guides, work with you to develop links to your curriculum, or visit your class for a pre-show discussion or post-event debrief.
The performance, production, and communication from The Prior were all excellent.
The students love to be able to see real professionals embrace what we are currently discussing in class.
It was good for students to see a working writer [and] also great to have them understand that writing, publishing, and even the endeavor of being a college student is a process.
The experience was thrilling due to the design of the venue, the excellent performance, and the opportunity to be with colleagues and students outside of the classroom.
