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Katie Folger (B.A., Theatre and Dance, 2013) stages one-woman show at Elysian Theater in L.A.

October 23, 2026 | L.A. Times

Getting In Bed with the Pizza Man has previously sold out runs in Austin, Los Angeles, and Portland. It earned five stars at the 2024 Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

Sean Tecson (B.A., Directing, 2015) premieres new play, Debut: Coming of Age in Filipino America, in Chicago

October 23, 2026 | Broadway World

Sean Tecson, writing under the pen name Nate Cozens, will premiere his full-length play, Debut: Coming of Age in Filipino America, this fall with CIRCA Pintig, a Filipino-American theater company in Chicago. Inspired by Tecson's own experience of turning 30, the play explores family, identity, cultural expectations, and how we continue to rediscover ourselves throughout adulthood. The play runs Nov. 5-Dec. 4, 2026, across three Chicago venues: Filament Theatre, Bughouse Theatre, and the Rizal Center.

fire work, directed by Bonnie Cullum (M.F.A., Directing, 1989), to premiere at The Vortex theatre

September 22, 2026 | The Vortex Theatre

The Fantasticks, co-written by Tom Jones (B.F.A., Theatrical Design, 1959) and Harvey Schmitdt (B.F.A., Art, 1952), returns to Broadway with a reimagined boy love story

September 22, 2026 | New York Times

How two UT Fine Arts alumni created the world's longest-running musical and how a character gender-swap has breathed new life into the script and landed it on Broadway.

Jaime Castañeda (M.F.A., Theatre, 2006) to direct world premiere of Reykjavik86 at Dallas Theater Center

September 22, 2026 | Dallas Theatre Center

Playwrights Realm presents This Is Not Not a Drill, an audio guided tour of Manhattan by Daria Miyeko Marinelli (M.F.A., Theatre, 2019)

September 22, 2026

Sophie Rossman, Kayta Thomas, Amalia Yoo, Renée-Nicole Powell in Dad Don't Read This Off-Broadway. (Valerie Terranova)

Off-Broadway shows "Dad Don't Read This" by Eliya Smith (M.F.A., Writing, 2025) and "Calf Scramble" by Libby Carr (B.A., Playwriting, 2021) featured in Playbill

July 27, 2026 | Playbill

With the success of John Proctor is the Villain, written by UT alumna Kimberly Belflower (M.F.A., Playwriting, 2017), stories that center teen girlhood are all the rage.

Katie Bender (M.F.A. 2014) Selected for Cycle 4 of Rattlestick Theater's Terrence McNally New Works Fellowship

July 27, 2026 | Rattlestick Theater

Posters for Pretend it's Pretend and Born in the Dirt

Lincoln Center Theater's 2026/2027 Season to Feature Kimberly Belflower's (M.F.A., Playwriting, 2017) "Born in the Dirt" and Emma Watkins' (M.F.A., Theatre, 2024) "Pretend it's Pretend"

July 27, 2026 | Lincoln Center Theater

Playwright Kimberly Belflower (M.F.A., Theatre, 2017) signs deal for new television YA drama

February 27, 2026 | Deadline