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Isaac Gómez (B.A., Theatre and Dance, 2013) and Jayme Sanchez (M.F.A., Writing, 2022) among SPACE on Ryder Farm residents

June 30, 2022 | SPACE on Ryder Farm

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Alumni Among New York Theatre Workshop's 2050 Artistic Fellows

June 28, 2022 | New York Theatre Workshop

Alumni Andrew Rodriguez (B.F.A. 2019) and Minghao Tu (M.F.A. 2020) were selected out of hundreds of applicants as two of the six 2050 Artistic Fellows for New York Theatre Workshop's 2022/2023 season.

Read about the animated special NAKED MOLE RAT GETS DRESSED, produced by Megan Alrutz

Megan Alrutz Serves as Producer for HBO Max Children's Special

June 27, 2022 | Animation Magazine

Faculty member Megan Alrutz is serving as a producer for Mo Willems' HBO Max children's special Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed: The Underground Rock Experience. Alrutz previously served as dramaturg for the stage adaptation of Willem's beloved children's book. 

Alumni Guinevere "Gwenny" Govea workshops new musical at Pegasus PlayLab

June 16, 2022 | UT Theatre and Dance

Govea (B.A. in Theatre and Dance and Bachelor of Journalism, 2021) and Anna Pickett (B.S. in Youth and Community Studies, 2021) workshopped their new musical Spells of the Sea at Pegasus PlayLab at the University of Central Florida in Orlando.

"The Fantasticks" creator Tom Jones rewrites classic musical as gay love story

June 16, 2022 | Playbill

Jones (B.F.A., Theatrical Design, 1949) and Harvey Schmidt's The Fantasticks tells an allegorical story loosely based on Edmund Rostand's 1894 play The Romancers (Les Romanesques), concerning two neighboring parents who trick their children into falling in love by pretending to feud. The LGBTQIA+ focused rewrite features two young gay men, Matt and Lewis, at the center of the story, instead of a young man and woman (the original characters were Matt and Luisa).

'Six Feet Apart' by Isaac Gómez (B.A. 2013) premieres at Dances with Films

June 13, 2022 | Dances with Films

Alumnus J. Quinton Johnson will direct his new musical 'Alice's Wonderland' at Summer Stock Austin

June 13, 2022 | Broadway World

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UT Alumni Workshop New Musical at Pegasus PlayLab

June 9, 2022

UT Austin alumni Guinevere "Gwenny" Govea (B.A. 2021) and Anna Pickett workshopped their new musical Spells of the Sea at Pegasus PlayLab at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, culminating in staged readings on June 4 and 5, 2022.

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Alum Tom Jones Rewrites The Fantasticks as Gay Love Story

June 3, 2022 | Playbill

Alumnus Tom Jones (B.F.A. 1949, M.F.A. 1951) has conducted rewrites to recenter The Fantasticks as a love story between two young men. Jones' rewrites for the classic musical, which he originally wrote with the late Harvey Schmidt (B.F.A. in Art, 1952), were penned in collaboration with Flint Repertory Producing Artistic Director Michael Lluberes.

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Penfold Theatre's A War of the Worlds Features UT Alumni and Students

June 2, 2022 | Penfold Theatre Company

Penfold Theatre Company's world premiere performance of Jarrett King's A War of the Worlds features Marcus McQuirter (Ph.D. 2012) as director, Ph.D. candidate Yunina Barbour-Payne and former student Marc Pouhé among the cast and staff member Desireé Humphries as costume designer.