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Alumnus Isaac Gómez's (B.A. 2013) new play I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter is currently preparing for its world premiere at Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago. With featured ensemble member and alumna Karen Rodriguez, this poignant adaptation of Erika L. Sánchez's award-winning novel follows Julia, a Chicago high school student as she navigates trials and tribulations of following her dreams of becoming a writer. 

Single Black Female, written by faculty memberLisa B. Thompson and directed by alumnus Matrex Kilgore (B.A. 2015), takes the stage at Ground Floor Theatre this spring with a two-woman show featuring rapid-fire comic vignettes that explore the lives of thirty-something African American middle-class women in urban America as they search for love, clothes and dignity in a world that fails to recognize them amongst a parade of stereotypical images. 

The University of Texas at Austin Department of Theatre and Dance presents Marcus; or the Secret of Sweet by Tarell Alvin McCraney, directed by Robert Ramirez (head of acting, interim department chair) and Charles O. Anderson (head of dance) February 26-March 8, 2020 at the Oscar G. Brockett Theatre. The provocative, poignant and fiercely humorous coming-of-age story of a young gay man in the South, Marcus; or the Secret of Sweet is the stirring conclusion of The Brother/Sister Plays by Academy Award-winning playwright and screenwriter, Tarell Alvin McCraney (Moonlight).

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Playwriting faculty member Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (Associate Professor of Practice) was recently named one of the recipients of the USA Fellowship from United States Artists. This $50,000 fellowship is granted to a selected number of artists in recognition of their contributions to the field. His plays include Everybody, An Octoroon and Appropriate.

This spring, the College of Fine Arts welcomes Leah Cox to the Dance division as an associate professor with tenure in the Department of Theatre and Dance at The University of Texas at Austin. With her history as a dancer with the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company and her most recent roles as dean of the American Dance Festival and associate professor of Dance at Bard College, Cox brings a wealth of experience to her new position. 

Don Quixote, the literary creation of seventeenth-century Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes, is an indefatigable character with a big imagination, one wild enough to make giants out of windmills and castles out of roadside inns. He's now been re-imagined in El Paso-born playwright Octavio Solis’s new play, Quixote Nuevo, which opens at Houston’s Alley Theatre on January 17. Texas Monthly spoke with Octavis Solis and the play’s director, Texas Theatre and Dance Faculty member KJ Sanchez, about the prescient project.

Teatro Vivo has recently announced the 2020 Austin Latinx New Play Festival presented in collaboration with ScriptWorks, to run May 14-16, 2020. Alumni Jaymes Sanchez (The Cucuy Will Find You) and lily gonzales (trans(formada)) will both have thier works featured.

The University of Texas at Austin Department of Theatre and Dance and The Paramount Theatre are pleased to present The Hero Twins: Blood Race by Ramón Esquivel, directed by Will Kiley December 6-7, 2019 at the Oscar G. Brockett Theatre.

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