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Malena Pennycook

Malena Pennycook (M.F.A. Directing, 2024) Selected for Beyond The Realm Festival at Off-Broadway Playwrights Realm

September 10, 2025 | Playwrights Realm

Pennycook's play, Choreomania 1518, which was part of UTNT, will go up as part of the festival that focuses on plays that experiment with form beyond the traditional play model. 

Alumna Malena Pennycook was a finalist for the Yale Drama Prize

Malena Pennycook (M.F.A., Theatre, 2024) among finalists for Yale Drama Prize

July 3, 2025 | Yale Schwartzman Center

The competition was adjudicated by playwright and former UT Associate Professor of Practice Branden Jacobs-Jenkins.