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Yesenia Garcia Herrington (M.F.A., Theatre, 2007) receives 2022 KCACTF Uta Hagen Award

June 30, 2022 | Killeen Daily Herald

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

Gabriel Jason Dean (M.F.A., Writing, 2012), Will Davis (M.F.A., Directing, 2013) and James McMaster (M.A., Theatre, 2014) featured in HowlRound Anthology

June 30, 2022 | Howl Round

An interview with "Snow in Midsummer" playwright Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig (M.F.A., Writing, 2009)

June 30, 2022 | Classic Stage

Intramural Theater presents "The Cuck" by Sam Mayer (M.F.A., Writing, 2021)

June 30, 2022 | Intramural Theater

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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. 

"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).

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.

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

June 13, 2022 | Dances with Films