Recent News

In celebration of its fifteenth season, we are exploring UTNT (UT New Theatre)’s history of fostering experimentation, creative collaboration and hands-on new play development, through the eyes of its playwriting alumni.

Isaac Gómez (B.A. 2013) was honored with the 2022 E. William Doty Distinguished Young Alumnus Award, recognizing their extraordinary achievements as a professional playwright and theatre artist.

 This year’s UTNT (UT New Theatre) showcase presents three new plays featuring a wide variety of talent from across the department, the university and Austin.

Driven to provide a space for young artists of color to get experience working with lighting design and technology, alumna Amber Whatley (M.F.A. 2021) created Blackout, a free two-week workshop series in lighting design and technology aimed at Black youth and communities with limited access to education in theatrical arts. 

Graduate student Emma Craig was selected for USITT's 2022 Barbara Matera Award for Costume Making, recognizing her outstanding work in the field of costuming. Craig is the third M.F.A. candidate from the Department of Theatre and Dance to receive this award in the past four years.

Alumna Natashia Lindsey (Ph.D. 2017) recently received the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival Region Seven Horace Robinson/Jack Watson Award, recognizing outstanding dedication to her students as a faculty member at Central Washington University.

Playwriting alumnus Danny Tejera's play Toros, which was previously workshopped as part of UTNT (UT New Theatre) (2020), was selected to be featured in Second Stage Theater's Judith Champion New Voices Reading Series. Toros will be presented at the Tony Kiser Theater on January 18, 2022.