Recent News

Ph.D. candidate Jessica L. Peña Torres has been selected for the 2025 Candela Playwrights Summer Fellowship. 

Alum Kimberly Belflower (M.F.A. 2017) will adapt her hit Broadway play John Proctor is the Villain for film with producers Tina Fey, Sadie Sink and Marc Platt.

Theatre Communications Group, publisher of American Theatre magazine, names Yasmin Zacaria Mikhaiel (M.A. 2021) as a 2025 Rising Leader of Color in Journalism.

Assistant Professor of Instruction Lara Dossett has been selected as the recipient of the 2024/2025 Department of Theatre and Dance Teaching Excellence Award. This prestigious teaching accolade recognizes faculty members who go above and beyond to foster student success within the department. 

Atlantic Theater Company selects alumni Zachariah Ezer (M.F.A. 2023) and Emma Watkins (M.F.A. 2024) as 2025 Judith Champion Launch Commissioned Artists.

The Austin Arts Hall of Fame, which honors community members who have significantly contributed to the arts landscape of Austin, has inducted Ginger Morris (B.F.A. 2000) for her work in theatre and education.

Following the success of her first feature film, Janet Planet, faculty member Annie Baker is set to team up with A24 once again for her next film, Ancient History, which she wrote and will direct.