Recent News

Ahead of their world premiere production of Spells of the Sea, written by alumni Guinevere "Gwinny" Govea and Anna Amelia Rose Pickett, Metro Theater Company interviewed M.F.A. candidate Xinyue Zhang about the show's workshop at Pegasus PlayLab. Zhang was a member of the community engagement team alongside fellow M.F.A. candidate Claire Derriennic and a University of Florida collaborator.

From Shakespeare to HBO, faculty and students of the Department of Theatre and Dance are hard at work this summer. Learn more about their work in the first summer update, now available on the blog. 

Faculty member and Harry Ransom Center curator Eric Colleary has been collecting and archiving the ways theatres around the world navigated the onset of the pandemic and the subsequent shuddering of theatres in 2020. His findings as part of the Theatre 2020 Project can be found in a digital archive through the Harry Ransom Center.

Alumni Andrew Rodriguez (B.F.A. 2019) and Minghao Tu (M.F.A. 2020) were selected out of hundreds of applicants as two of the six 2050 Artistic Fellows for New York Theatre Workshop's 2022/2023 season.

Faculty member Megan Alrutz is serving as a producer for Mo Willems' HBO Max children's special Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed: The Underground Rock Experience. Alrutz previously served as dramaturg for the stage adaptation of Willem's beloved children's book.