Recent News

Playwriting alumnus Danny Tejera's play Toros, which was previously workshopped as part of UTNT (UT New Theatre) (2020), was selected to be featured in Second Stage Theater's Judith Champion New Voices Reading Series. Toros will be presented at the Tony Kiser Theater on January 18, 2022. 

M.F.A. candidate Jasmine Games has received the prestigious Sexton Prize for Poetry for her book Somebody's Daughter, earning her publication and distribution through The Black Spring Press Group along with a monetary prize. 

Every year, the B. Iden Payne Council, a volunteer organization sponsored by the Austin Creative Alliance, is tasked with viewing and nominating outstanding production elements in Austin. The Department of Theatre and Dance, as well as its students, faculty, alumni and staff, were nominated for many awards in a broad range of categories. The winners were announced at the B. Iden Payne Awards Ceremony on November 8, 2021, many of which are Theatre and Dance affiliates. 

Under the producing artistic direction of Erica Gionfriddo and co-artistic direction of Leah Cox and Joel Valentín-Martínez, Dance Repertory Theatre returns to the stage in Fall For Dance, a concert celebrating togetherness and connection and presenting poignant new works of choreography. Fall For Dance will feature two unique versions of programming, one for each week of performance, that seek to challenge and expand our understanding of the power of dance to change and transform, as well as an exploration of our collective transition through the COVID-19 pandemic and how we can take lessons to the other side of this ongoing metamorphosis.  

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