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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, 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.

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. 
 

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.