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New plays by M.F.A. playwrights
Producing Artistic Director Alexandra Bassiakou Shaw
UTNT (UT New Theatre) presents newly developed works from playwrights of Texas Theatre and Dance and Michener Center for Writers. Now celebrating its 18th season, this festival exists as an incubator for new work, with many plays continuing on to be professionally produced across the country. UTNT (UT New Theatre) 2025 will feature four new works by graduate playwrights.
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About the Producing Artistic Director
Alexandra Bassiakou Shaw creates and performs new work nationally and internationally. She is Co-Producing Artistic Director of Austin-based theatre collective Rude Mechs and serves as Producing Artistic Director of UTNT (UT New Theatre). M.F.A., Columbia University.
Titles featured in UTNT (UT New Theatre) 2025 will include:
Once In A Hundred Years
By Hal Cosentino
Adapted from The Seagull by Anton Chekhov
Directed by Ellenor Riley-Condit
Hello! It’s 1895. A young writer on a Russian estate recruits his crush to perform his new play for his mother, her boyfriend and the estate workers. It goes badly, but he refuses to give up. It’s also 2025. A company of actors in Austin, Texas performs a new play for you. It’s a cacophony of animals living and dying before your very eyes. But can anything truly be “new”—art, our lives, our problems? If not, then what do we need to feel whole? Come spend a thousand years with us in just one night trying to find out.
These. Are. The. Keystrokes.
By Michael Mobley
Directed by Mikala Gibson
A high school typing teacher, who prides himself on never failing a student, has a new student who threatens to end that streak. While trying to keep the new student from failing, the teacher learns to confront the past harm of focusing on this self-imposed competition and not on the students. On top of learning how to use proper typing techniques, the other students in class deal with all the end-of-year obligations as seniors: prom, graduation and the inevitability of adulthood. It's a play about dealing with the past, and present, so a better future won't be out of reach.
Three Exorcisms
By Avery Deutsch
Directed by Caley Chase
A group of outcasts inside a medieval convent obsesses over a young girl famous for theatrical exorcisms. But as the exorcisms turn more and more violent, the obsessions become a new kind of devil, haunting them all. A play about envy, longing, loneliness and what being trapped does to the soul.
Information about readings and workshops will be announced in Spring 2025.
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