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Jenny Connell Davis

Jenny Connell Davis' (M.F.A., Theatre, 2009) play Anton Checkhov is a Tasty Snack to open at Penfold Theatre this June

May 19, 2025

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Yunina Barbour-Payne Wins Michael H. Granof Outstanding Dissertation Award

April 22, 2025

Yunina Barbour-Payne (Ph.D. 2024) has been awarded the Michael H. Granof Outstanding Dissertation Award in Humanities and Fine Arts for her dissertation: Redbones, Blackbones and Other Bones to Pick: Formations of Affrilachian Aesthetics

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Dr. Lisa B. Thompson Awarded the 2024 Creative Endeavor Award

April 16, 2025 | University Research Excellence Awards

Dr. Lisa B. Thompson was awarded the The University of Texas at Austin's prestigious 2024 Creative Endeavor Award for her work The Black Feminist Guide to the Human Body, a performance art piece which presents Thompson’s research on the health and welfare of Black women in the United States. 

Learn more about how Faculty KJ Sanchez wrote a play based on family drama in this excerpt from her book in this publication of American Theatre.

Excerpt from Professor KJ Sanchez's Book Published in American Theatre

March 20, 2025 | American Theatre

An excerpt from Associate Professor of Playwriting and Directing KJ Sanchez's 2024 book The Radical Act of Listening: Making Documentary and Investigative Theatre has been published in a recent article in American Theatre. In the article, she discusses the pillars (or suggestions, as she calls them) of creating documentary theatre and her experience using them to write a play about a feud that impacted her own family.

Learn more about KJ Sanchez's new project with St. Edward's University.

KJ Sanchez's Walden (remix) has Regional Premiere at Mary Moody Northern Theatre

March 6, 2025 | Broadway World

Faculty member KJ Sanchez is directing the regional premiere of her play Walden (remix) at the Mary Moody Northern Theatre at St. Edward's University from April 3 - 13, 2025. Walden (remix) also features current B.F.A. in Acting student Chandler Collins and alum Megan Reilly (M.F.A. 2007) as prop designer.