UTNT (UT New Theatre), Part Two

New plays by M.F.A. Playwriting candidates

Producing Artistic Director, KJ Sanchez
Associate Producing Artistic Director, Alexandra Bassiakou Shaw  

UTNT (UT New Theatre) presents newly developed works from playwrights of Texas Theatre and Dance and Michener Center for Writers. Now in its 14th season, this showcase exists as an incubator for new work, with many plays continuing on to be professionally produced across the country. Presented in two parts, UTNT (UT New Theatre) presents work on the cutting edge of the American Stage. 

The 2021 UTNT (UT New Theatre), Part Two plays include:

Community Garden
A virtual reading
By Renae Simone Jarrett 
Directed by Kristen Osborn

March 2021

Community Garden is a meditation on self-searching, sacrifice and that lovely glow you get when you feast on the fruits that grow from the graves of dead husbands. 

Radiance 
By Gursimrat Kaur
Directed by Giana Blazquez 

March 2021 

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Set in a growing metropolitan city in the midst of an economic transition, Radiance follows the story of a few individuals who want more from the city than it promises to give them: Aria, a high-end escort, orchestrates an escape from her gruesome life in an elite brothel while Dina, a physically disabled young woman, rebels for love that will open her world beyond an isolated bedroom in the middle of a suburban wasteland. As Stanley, an aspiring young entrepreneur, arrives in the city to climb the ladder of a booming textile industry, we witness the consequences of economic progression on the inequity of gender roles in a developing society. 

sad women being sad  
Written and Co-Directed by Jenny Krick
Co-Directed by Andrea L. Hart 

April 2021 

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This lyrical play explores what it means to be sad and a woman in this world through the lens of the Greek tragedy, The Trojan Women. Examining trauma, mental health, violence and the internet's role in these things, sad women being sad asks the larger question of how and if we can separate the artist from their art. Be prepared for a comedy! 

Fall the House 
By Nicholas Kaidoo
Directed by Braxton Rae

April 2021 

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Everyone at the Atreus Housing Project is anticipating the long-rumored return of GHOST. When he does arrive, it sets off a persistently fatal chain of events. His wife NESSA is suspicious of him, his daughter ALEXUS could care less about him, a kid in the neighborhood, OLLIE, worships him and the girl with kerosene gas dripping from her hands KARA is just wandering trying to find her place in it all. And where in the hell is his son BISHOP anyway? If only they could ask that fake-ass psychic, PIANO MAN. The FURIES watch this all, withholding their verdict on the violence for as long as they see fit. A liberal homage to Aeschylus's Oresteia. 

OCD 
By Hee-won Kim 
Directed by Mike Steele 

April 2021 

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How do you love someone who isn't you? OCD is a dark comedy about impossible sibling connections, mental illness and a desire to have a room of one's own in a world where boundaries between the notion of love and sacrifice are not always clear. All Miji wants is for her younger brother to get ready for his music audition so her mother won't cry and she can have a space to herself. What she didn't expect was that this world requires a visit to the Korean land of the dead where no soul - dead or alive - wants to end up.  

Titles, dates, artists and venues are subject to change.