Recent News

Starting in fall of 2023, the newly endowed Don Wilson Glenn African American Playwright Scholarship will be awarded to a UT Theatre and Dance student playwright. Created with generous support by friends and classmates of award-winning playwright Don Wilson Glenn, each year's recipient will be selected following an annual playwriting competition.

On the 125th anniversary of his birth, theatres across the country are presenting works celebrating playwright Thornton Wilder. Among them is faculty member Kirk Lynn's adaptation of Wilder's unfinished script The Emporium, premiering at the Alley Theatre in June 2022.

Dr. Charlotte M. Canning, Frank C. Erwin, Jr. Centennial Professor in Drama and Head of the Oscar G. Brockett Center for Theatre History and Criticism, has been selected as the recipient of The University of Texas at Austin’s 2021 Civitatis Award.

The McNay Art Museum's current exhibition, The Great Stage of Texas, highlights work by Texas theatre artists, including faculty member Karen Maness and alumni Michelle Nay (M.F.A. 1989) and Stephanie Busing (M.F.A. 2014). Their artwork will be on display March 3-July 24, 2022.

In celebration of its fifteenth season, we are exploring UTNT (UT New Theatre)’s history of fostering experimentation, creative collaboration and hands-on new play development, through the eyes of its playwriting alumni.

 This year’s UTNT (UT New Theatre) showcase presents three new plays featuring a wide variety of talent from across the department, the university and Austin.

Isaac Gómez (B.A. 2013) was honored with the 2022 E. William Doty Distinguished Young Alumnus Award, recognizing their extraordinary achievements as a professional playwright and theatre artist.