Recent News

Lincoln Center Theater will present Daphne, a new, surreal play by Renae Simone Jarrett (M.F.A. 2021), beginning October 2023. Her play delves into the mind-bending realizations of her main character Daphne following her move out of the city with her girlfriend.

The Department of Theatre and Dance is pleased to celebrate a number of incoming tenured and tenure-track faculty this academic year. Among them is newly-appointed chair Dr. Peter Carpenter (Z.T. Scott Family Chair in Drama), who joins the department from his previous position as director of the School of Theatre and Dance at the University of Florida. Also joining the department this fall are Performance as Public Practice faculty members Enzo E. Vasquez Toral and Rosemary Candelario, who represent the continued growth, development and expansion of their area. 

Faculty member Annie Baker recently spoke with Vogue about the world premiere of her play Infinite Life. Baker's new play, which explores pain, fragility and comfort, is on stage at Atlantic Theater Company beginning in August 2023. 

Before the start of the fall semester, the Association for Theatre in Higher Education’s (ATHE) Annual Conference took place in Austin, Texas. UT Department of Theatre and Dance affiliates attended, presented and orchestrated this year’s conference, sharing their theatrical knowledge and networking with fellow theatre practitioners.

After a production at the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester, untitled f*ck m*ss s**gon play by Kimber Lee (M.F.A. 2011) will be on stage at Young Vic Theatre in London, England. Lee's acclaimed play will run from mid-September to November 4, 2023.

Alumni kt shorb (Ph.D. 2021) and siri gurudev (Ph.D. 2023) have been selected as Arts Research with Communities of Color Fellows by the Social Science Research Council. As members of this year's cohort, shorb will work with Theater Mu and gurudev will work with Esperanza Peace & Justice Center, conducting research geared towards making the arts a more equitable field.

After participating in City to City, a program through UNESCO's Creative Cities network, faculty member EG Gionfriddo and Ph.D. candidate Eliot Gray Fisher have seen their work presented around the world. Their work told-hold, which they created with artists from Germany and the United Kingdom, is currently on display at Centro Cultural Colombo Americano in Colombia.