Recent News

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. 

M.F.A. candidate Jasmine Games has received the prestigious Sexton Prize for Poetry for her book Somebody's Daughter, earning her publication and distribution through The Black Spring Press Group along with a monetary prize.