Galleries

2022/2023 Season

Two dancers caught mid-jump with their left legs and arms extended and their right arms and legs bent

The Cohen New Works Festival (2023)

Photo: Thomas Allison

 

Three dancers cover their mouths

EMERGE

Artistic Director: Gesel Mason
Co-Producing Artistic Directors: Erica “EG” Gionfriddo and Dorothy O’Shea Overbey
Photo: Thomas Allison

An actor looks down, leaning with their hands on top of a desk, while another actor looks on and a third actor watches from behind a wall of haze

UTNT (UT New Theatre): Address the Body!

By Zachariah Ezer
Directed by Dominique Rider
Photo: Thomas Allison

UTNT readings:
Harold by Justine Gelfman
mirror, mirror by Mia Gomez-Reyes

Two actors sitting on a stone bench look out into the distance, deep in thought, with stars projected behind them and a ring of orange light beneath them

UTNT (UT New Theatre): Very Blue Light

By Daphne Silbiger
Directed by Kristen Osborn
Photo: Thomas Allison

UTNT readings:
Harold by Justine Gelfman
mirror, mirror by Mia Gomez-Reyes

A dancer whose hair covers her face poses on stage

Fall For Dance (2022)

Co-Artistic Directors: Leah Cox, Joel Valentín-Martínez
Producing Artistic Director: Erica “EG” Gionfriddo
Photo: Thomas Allison

An actor stands, speaking passionately with her hands over her heart, while another actor looks on admiringly and a third actor sits to the side, looking shocked

In Sisters We Trust, or My F*cked Up American Girl Doll Play

By Justine Gelfman
Directed by Jenny Laver
Photo: Essentials Creative

Four actors in purple and gold robes and gold halo-like head pieces hold hands, looking out hopefully into the distance

...but you could've held my hand

By JuCoby Johnson
Directed by Braxton Rae
Photo: Thomas Allison


 

2021/2022 Season

actress sits on a stage with hundreds of stars projected on it, lifting her hand and looking up

Love and Information

Written by Caryl Churchill
Directed by Mike Steele
Photo: Thomas Allison

dancer with her braids pulled into a ponytail kicks her leg out in front of her, holding her arms at angles around her head

PIVOT

Co-Artistic Directors: Charles O. Anderson, Dorothy O'Shea Overbey, Quilan "Cue" Arnold
Producing Artistic Director: Erica “eg” Gionfriddo
Photo: Thomas Allison

actor wearing a rat mascot head holds an umbrella, surrounded by red stage lighting

UTNT (UT New Theatre): Jinkies! or The Dog Play

Written by Josiah Thomas Turner
Directed by Braxton Rae
Photo: Thomas Allison

two actors sit on blocks facing opposite directions, checkered with colorful projections

UTNT (UT New Theatre): Murky as Hell

Written and directed by Andrea L. Hart
Photo: Thomas Allison

three "Ghost Children" stand on train tracks behind a bus made of paper, looking concerned

UTNT (UT New Theatre): Tiny Fingerprints

Written by Jaymes Sanchez
Directed by Adam Flores
Photo: Thomas Allison

woman in a green shirt and yellow cape speaks into a microphone, with her left hand extended out

"Kimmy"

Written by Farah Lawal Harris
Directed by Yunina Barbour-Payne
Photo: Thomas Allison

director records an ensemble member performing a dance in front of trees

kin • song: ode to disability ancestors

Conceived and directed by Alexis Riley
 

a dancer in a red dress throws his long train of red fabric, lining up with another dancer's outstretched arm

Fall For Dance (2021)

Co-Artistic Directors: Leah Cox, Joel Valentín-Martínez
Producing Artistic Director: Erica “eg” Gionfriddo
Photo: Essentials Creative, Thomas Allison and Sarah Annie Navarrete

actor wearing a white dog head puts her hands on her ears, carted in by an actor in a striped apron

The Tasters

Written by Meghan Brown
Directed by Kristen Osborn
Photo: Thomas Allison

man with his arms outstretched as if flying, with a shadow crossing his face

Sonnets for an Old Century

Written by José Rivera
Directed by Corey Allen
Photo: Essentials Creative


 

2020/2021 Season

man with a scarf wrapped around his mouth and nose looks up, with an icy Antarctic background behind him

UTNT (UT New Theatre): OCD

By Hee-won Kim
Directed by Mike Steele

a woman with short dark hair and a yellow mask crosses her arms with a knife in one hand

UTNT (UT New Theatre): Fall the House

By Nicholas Kaidoo.
Directed by Braxton Rae.
Photo: Amber Whatley

actress lying down on a red sofa looks concerned while turning her face towards the size

UTNT (UT New Theatre): sad women being sad (2021)

Written and co-directed by Jenny Krick
Co-directed by Andrea L. Hart
Photo: Andrea L. Hart

man with glasses and a vest holds a rotary phone in one hand and a cigarette in the other

UTNT (UT New Theatre): Radiance (2021)

Written by Gursimrat Kaur.
Directed by Giana Blazquez.
Photo: Gursimrat Kaur

dancer with dark, curly hair holds her arms out around her while looking up

del corazón nace el enjambre (2021)

Conceived and directed by Erica Patricia Saucedo.
Photo: Brooke Bower

actor in a tiger striped suit coat and mask sits on a couch

Year of the Tiger (2021)

Directed by Khristián Méndez Aguirre
Photo: Jacob Eaker

actress closes her eyes, standing in front of  a screen with remote dancers performing

burst! (2021)

Conceived and Directed by Gesel Mason
Photo: Sydney Pattillo

woman washed in pink light holds one hand to her heart and the other outstretched close to the camera

In the Ether (2020)

Conceived and Directed by Erica Gionfriddo
Photo: Erica Gionfriddo

actress looking down wearing a mask and colorful barrettes

UTNT (UT New Theatre): Wyeth Airlines Flight Thirteen (2020)

By Lena Barnard
Directed by Andrea L. Hart
Photo: Jacob Eaker

three men with mustaches have a conversation within their individual streaming windows through Twitch

UTNT (UT New Theatre): poolboy00 (2020)

By Sam Mayer
Directed by Mike Steele
Photo: Sydney Pattillo

six actresses perform remotely, their Zoom square layered over a pink desert scene

La Ruta (2020)

By Isaac Gómez
Directed by Anna Skidis Vargas
Photo: Megan Bommarito

dancer wearing a mask clenches his fists, standing under ladders

(Re)current Unrest (2020)

Conceived and Directed by Charles O. Anderson
Photo: Fabian Leon Villa


 

2019/2020 Season

actors and ensemble posing on the set of MARCUS; OR THE SECRET OF SWEET

Marcus; or the Secret of Sweet (2020)

By Tarell Alvin McCraney
Directed by Charles O. Anderson and Robert Ramirez
Photo: Lawrence Peart

an actor stares into the distance

The Hero Twins: Blood Race (2019)

By Ramón Esquivel
Directed by Will Kiley
Photo: Lawrence Peart

Spring Awakening 2019 performance

Spring Awakening (2019)

Book and Lyrics by Steven Sater
Music by Duncan Sheik
Based on the play by Frank Wedekind
Directed by Anna Skidis Vargas
Photo: Lawrence Peart

2019 Fall For Dance performance

Fall For Dance (2019)

Artistic Direction by Dorothy O'Shea Overbey and Gesel Mason
Photo: Lawrence Peart

12 Ophelias (a play with broken songs) 2019 performance

12 Ophelias (a play with broken songs) (2019)

By Caridad Svich
Directed by Jess Shoemaker
Photo: Lawrence Peart


 

2018/2019 Season

2019 Cohen New Works Festival performance of Existence is Resistance

Cohen New Works Festival (2019)

Presented by Broadway Bank
Photo: Lawrence Peart

The Women of _______ (a song not song) 2019 production

The Women of _______ (a song not song) (2019)

By I-Chia Chiu, kt shorb and the ensemble
Directed by kt shorb
Photo: Lawrence Peart

Evolution (2019) performance

Evolution (2019)

Choreographer Instruction by Erica Gionfriddo
Concert and Event Lighting Instruction by Matthew Smith
Visual Programming Instruction by Michael McKellar
Photo: Lawrence Peart

UTNT (UT New Theatre) performance of Three Shitty Sons (2019)

UTNT (UT New Theatre): Three Shitty Sons (2019)

By Hannah Kenah 
Directed by Mason Rosenthal 
Photo: Lawrence Peart

Fortitude 2019 performance

Fortitude (2019)

Artistic Direction by Andrea Beckham and Erica Gionfriddo
Photo: Lawrence Peart

UTNT (UT New Theatre) 2019 performance of Flora Circular

UTNT (UT New Theatre): Flora Circular (2019)

By Daria Miyeko Marinelli
Directed and Developed with Anna Skidis Vargas
Photo: Lawrence Peart

UTNT (UT New Theatre) 2019 production of a place called the middle

UTNT (UT New Theatre): a place called the middle (2019)

By I-Chia Chiu
Directed by Adam L. Sussman
Photo: Lawrence Peart

The Merchant of Venice 2018 performance

The Merchant of Venice (2018)

By William Shakespeare
Directed by Adam L. Sussman
Photo: Lawrence Peart

2018 Fall For Dance production of Proving Ground

Fall For Dance (2018)

Artistic Direction by Charles O. Anderson, Dorothy O'Shea Overbey and Gesel Mason
Photo: Lawrence Peart

the shark dancers carry away a victim

Matawan (2018)

By Dan Caffrey
Directed by Lane Michael Stanley
Photo: Lawrence Peart 


 

2017/2018 Season

Transcendence 2018 performance

Transcendence (2018)

Artistic Direction by Charles O. Anderson and Andrea Beckham
Photo: Lawrence Peart

The Drowsy Chaperone 2017 production

The Drowsy Chaperone (2017)

By Bob Miller and Don McKellar
Directed by Nick Mayo
Photo: Lawrence Peart 

The Crucible 2017 production

The Crucible (2017)

By Arthur Miller
Directed by Michael Fry
Photo: Lawrence Peart 

2017 Fall For Dance performance

Fall For Dance (2017)

Artistic Direction by Jeremy Arnold, Erica Gionfriddo and Dorothy O'Shea Overbey
Photo: Lawrence Peart

Anon(ymous) 2017 production

Anon(ymous) (2017)

By Naomi Iizuka
Directed by Sam Provenzano
Photo: Lawrence Peart

Building The Wall 2017 production

Building The Wall (2017)

By Robert Schenkkan
Directed by Brant Pope
Photo: Lawrence Peart 


 

2016/2017 Season

person in black draped over another person

Momentum (2017)

Artistic Directors: Charles O. Anderson, Jeremy Arnold, Lyn C. Wiltshire 
Photo: Lawrence Peart 

Luna 2017 production

Luna (2017)

By Ramón Esquivel 
Directed by Roxanne Schroeder-Arce
Photo: Lawrence Peart

man in armor in the spotlight

Cohen New Works Festival (2017)

Presented by Broadway Bank
Photo: Lawrence Peart

UTNT (UT New Theatre) 2017 production of The Bigot

UTNT (UT New Theatre): The Bigot (2017)

By William Glick
Directed by Hannah Wolf
Photo: Lawrence Peart

UTNT (UT New Theatre) 2017 production of Slumber Party

UTNT (UT New Theatre): Slumber Party (2017)

By Elizabeth Doss
Co-Directed by Cara Phipps and Elizabeth Doss
Photo: Lawrence Peart

UTNT (UT New Theatre) 2017 production of Gondal

UTNT (UT New Theatre): Gondal (2017)

By Kimberly Belflower
Directed by Adam Sussman
Photo: Lawrence Peart

UTNT (UT New Theatre) 2017 production of Galactic Orphans

UTNT (UT New Theatre): Galactic Orphans (2017)

By Megan Tabaque
Directed by Graham Schmidt
Photo: Lawrence Peart

man and woman sitting on window sill

Lost Girl (2016)

A new play by Kimberly Belflower
Directed by Cara Phipps
Photo: Lawrence Peart

woman standing on staircase looking up

Little Women The Broadway Musical (2016)

Book by Allan Knee
Music by Jason Howland
Lyrics by Mindi Dickstein
Based on the Novel by Louisa May Alcott
Directed by Melissa Maxwell
Photos: Lawrence Peart

woman posing with interpretive dancers while holding her ear

In The Red And Brown Water (2016)

By Tarell Alvin McCraney
Directed by Charles O. Anderson and Robert Ramirez
Photo: Lawrence Peart


 

2015/2016 Season

woman holding her head and screaming

UTNT (UT New Theatre) presents Girls in Cars Underwater (2016)

By Tegan McCloud
Directed by Cara Phipps
Photo: Lawrence Peart

man, woman and balloons

UTNT (UT New Theatre) presents 381 Bleecker (2016)

By Gia Marotta
Directed by Jess Hutchinson
Photo: Daniel Cavazos

woman holding man's face

UTNT (UT New Theatre) presents The Orange Garden (2016)

By Joanna Garner
Directed by Alexandra Bassiakou Shaw
Photo: Lawrence Peart

Man and young woman laughing

The Diary of Anne Frank (2015)

By Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett
Directed by Brant Pope
Photo: Lawrence Peart

two men looking off camera

UTNT (UT New Theatre) presents The Silent Woman (2016)

by Lydia Blaisdell
Directed by KJ Sanchez
Photo: Lawrence Peart

man singing

The Wild Party (2015)

Music and Lyrics by Michael John LaChiusa
Book by Michael John LaChiusa and George C. Wolfe
Based on the book by Joseph Moncure March
Directed by Cara Phipps
Photo: Lawrence Peart

man lifitng a woman

Fall For Dance (2015)

Artistic Directors: Charles O. Anderson, Andrea Beckham, Dorothy O'Shea Overbey
Photo: Lawrence Peart

woman extending leg and arm

Bodies & Souls (2016)

Artistic Directors: Charles O. Anderson, Erica Gionfriddo and Lyn C. Wiltshire
Photo: Lawrence Peart

man looking at camera

Twelfth Night (2016)

By William Shakespeare
Directed by Robynn Rodriguez
Photo: Lawrence Peart


 

2014/2015 Season

Young girls holding a doll

Esperanza Rising (2014)

Story by Pam Muñoz Ryan
Adaptation by Lynne Alvarez
Directed by Natalie Novacek
Photo: Lawrence Peart

woman with flowers

A Streetcar Named Desire (2014)

By Tennessee Williams
Directed by Jess Hutchinson
Photo: Lawrence Peart

man with mask his body wrapped in blue drape

Cohen New Works Festival (2015)

Presented by Broadway Bank
Photo: Daniel Cavazos and Lawrence Peart


 

Commencement

graduates hugging one another

Commencement Reception (2017)

Festivities celebrating the Theatre and Dance graduation class of 2017.
Photo: Sandy Carson

graduation cap that says First Generation Grad

Commencement Reception (2016)

Festivities celebrating the Theatre and Dance graduation class of 2016.

graduation cap that says Ready or Not Here I Come

Commencement Reception (2015)

Festivities celebrating the Theatre and Dance graduation class of 2015.
Photo: Sandy Carson