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 19th 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) 2026 will feature four new works by graduate playwrights.
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PERFORMANCES
February 26-March 8, 2026
Titles featured in UTNT (UT New Theatre) 2026 will include:
Ordinary Time
By Kaia L
Directed by Julia Kreutzer
When a member of their community disappears, an order of Benedictine monks is forced to reckon with their conceptions of loyalty, identity, justice and Godliness. Ordinary Time is a durational, experiential performance that asks us to weigh the costs and benefits of silence.
Vulturine
By Matt Thekkethala
Directed by Sunghyun Lim
When a prickly Old man demands a sky burial – an ancient ritual in which vultures consume the dead – his estranged son Small Fry accompanies him to a faraway land to see it through. But when they discover that only two vultures remain on Earth, the funeral arrangements spiral into a visceral, personal, diabolical reckoning with extinction. Vulturine is a father-son Home Depot trip from hell, dripping with entrails, climate guilt and dark comedy.
Diet of Worms
By Nick Hart
Directed by Rodolfo Robles Cruz
Gentlemen. This Emergency Session of The United States Congress has begun. FIRST ORDER OF BUSINESS: WE HAVE TO pass a budget for the next fiscal year by midnight tonight. We currently have a 487 quadrillion dollar deficit. Everyone in this room tonight needs to look inside their hearts and collectively find or raise 487 quadrillion dollars by midnight, which AGAIN is within the next… 82 minutes or we’ll all be executed gangland style in the back alley. Ok? (A play about why we’re the greatest country in the world.)
A Tale for Home
Written and Directed by Chih-Ching Chester Tsai
We’re on an island far from America, where complicated realities take root and uproot one another: An immortal rabbit speaks from the past. A girl digs beneath a mulberry tree. A returning American brings a gift that unsettles the ground. Through myth, memory and migration, the island remembers—and refuses to forget.
We ask: What does it mean to call a place “home”? And when those who once lived here remember it differently—whose version becomes the story we carry forward?
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.
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