Recent News

The Ethnic and Third World Literatures Review of Books, “Everyday Anarchy”: Communities in Action during a Pandemic of Unrest includes reviews written by current students Zachariah Ezer and kt shorb, as well as a review of faculty member Lisa B. Thompson's Underground, Monroe, and The Mamalogues by alum I.B. Hopkins (M.F.A. 2020).

Playwright Hee-won Kim, director Mike Steele and co-environmental designers Ningmo Liu and Mingxiang Ya discuss the major components of OCD as well as the challenges (and benefits) of creating a world that is at once virtual, performed and animated.

In the wake of the pandemic, faculty member and Harry Ransom Center curator Eric Colleary has started the "Theatre 2020 Project," a digital time capsule documenting the theatrical shutdown of 2020. In an article for Playbill, Felicia Fitzpatrick (B.A. 2014) writes about his growing archive, which will be made available to view at the Harry Ransom Center.

As a writer in the Lincoln Center Theater's Beaumont New Play Commission Program, faculty member Branden Jacobs-Jenkins was invited to select a piece as part of the upcoming Spotlight Series, selecting The Forbidden City by Bill Gunn to be part of a series of audio features of past works presented at LCT. An interview with Jacobs-Jenkins and director Seret Scott is available, along with the audio-play, until May 23, 2021.

Faculty members Erica Gionfriddo and Adriana Serrano fostered cross-disciplinary collaboration in a recent project between Gionfriddo's choreography course and Serrano's production design course through the Department of Radio-Television-Film.

This fall, the College of Fine Arts welcomes Joel Valentín-Martínez to the Dance division as an associate professor with tenure in the Department of Theatre and Dance at The University of Texas at Austin. A former member of the Tony Award-winning Garth Fagan Dance company, Valentín-Martínez has spent the last two decades developing his own choreographic works and teaching at the university level, most recently at Northwestern University.

Ground Floor Theatre's upcoming season includes rain falls special on me by Lane Michael Stanley (M.F.A. 2020); Memphis, directed by Matrex Kilgore (B.A. 2015); Dot, directed by faculty member Lisa B. Thompson and "En el nombre del padre," a digital performance art piece by artist in residence siri gurudev (Ph.D. candidate).

Artistic collaborators Michael J. Love (M.F.A. 2020) and Art and Art History alum Ariel René Jackson were recently selected as recipients of the annual Tito's Prize out of a pool of over 150 local artists, providing them with funding and an opportunity to perform their project "We are the [Hackers], Baby, [Hackers] are we" at Big Medium in Austin later this year.