Recent News

Alum Will Davis (M.F.A. 2013) has been selected as the next artistic director for Rattlestick Theater, an Off Broadway theatre company in New York City centering new, innovative work.

UTNT (UT New Theatre) provides playwrights with the unique opportunity to see their plays take shape in front of audiences for the first time. We talked to the UTNT directors and playwrights about the works that are being developed this year to find out more about these productions and their significance to both the audience and themselves.

Faculty member Joel Valentín-Martínez's choreographic work "Dear Brother" will be presented as part of University of Wisconsin-Madison's Moonshine, an evening of performance celebrating Black History Month. Dancer Kevin Ormsby will perform Valentín-Martínez's latest work.

The VORTEX presents the world premiere of i see you. you're seen., written and performed by alumna Oktavea LaToi (B.A. 2017). This solo performance, also featuring video design by M.F.A. candidate Jackson Cobb, will be on stage February 25 through March 11, 2023.

M.F.A. candidate Allen Porterie received the inaugural Monica K. Roberts Graduate Award. Established by UT Libraries, this award is part of their Black Queer Studies Student Awards, recognizing outstanding scholarship in the field of Black Queer Studies.

Now in its sixteenth season, UTNT (UT New Theatre) brings together students from all theatre-making disciplines to develop new plays by rising playwrights. Meet the casts and creative teams behind this year's UTNT (UT New Theatre) showcase.

Ashley Malafronte (M.A. 2021) has been awarded the Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation Noël Coward Fellowship. As part of her fellowship, she'll work with director and faculty member KJ Sanchez on Arizona Theatre Company's production of Private Lives.

Guinevere Govea (B.A. 2021) and Anna Pickett (B.S. in Youth and Community Studies) will receive the world premiere of their original work Spells of the Sea February 10-March 5, 2023. Spells of the Sea was first workshopped as part of the Cohen New Works Festival. 

Playwriting faculty member Kirk Lynn discusses the performance of play as part of Two Guys on Your Head In-Person (a production from NPR Radio) on February 21, as part of the Texas Science Festival 2023.

M.F.A. candidate Emma Dickerson was selected for the 2023 Barbara Matera Award in Costume Making. This award recognizes her excellence and artistry as a costume maker and earns her a monetary prize and registration for the USITT Conference & Stage Expo.