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Alum Danny Tejera's Play Selected for New Voices Reading Series

January 14, 2022 | Second Stage Theater

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. 

Roberto Di Donato (B.A., Drama, 2016) named founding Managing Director of the Latiné Musical Theatre Lab in NYC

Jan. 14, 2022 | Latine Musical Theatre Lab

Renae Simone Jarrett (M.F.A., Theatre, 2021) is among Clubbed Thumb's 2021-2022 Early-Career Writers' Group

Jan. 14, 2022 | Clubbed Thumb

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Jasmine Games Wins 2021 Sexton Prize for Poetry

January 11, 2022 | The Black Spring Press Group

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. 

Danny Tejera's play "TOROS" part of the 2022 Judith Champion New Voices Series at Second Stage

Jan. 10, 2022 | Playbill

The series begins January 18 with Toros by Tejera (M.F.A., Playwriting, 2020), directed by David Mendizábal. Toros follows three international late-20-year-olds (and one dying golden retriever) as they hang out and more in a garage in Madrid as they try to sort out their lives.

Alumni Ariel René Jackson (M.F.A, Studio Art, 2019) and Michael J. Love (M.F.A, Theatre, 2020) Black futurist family archive exhibition reviewed by Sightlines

Dec. 8, 2021 | Sightlines

Kathryn St. Clair's paintings are now represented by The Christopher Hill Gallery

Dec. 8, 2021 | Christopher Hill Gallery

The Christopher Hill Gallery, an established contemporary fine art gallery in St. Helena, CA at in the heart of the Napa Valley, will host Clair's (B.F.A., Studio Art, 1993) paintings.

Adrian Lopez joins Bellaire High School as newest addition to the theatre wing

Nov. 11, 2021 | Three Penny Press

After graduation, Lopez (B.F.A., Theatre Studies, 2021) applied to Bellaire to teach drama, where he teaches well over a combined one hundred students in all periods except second.

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2020-2021 B. Iden Payne Award Nominees and Winners

November 9, 2021

Every year, the B. Iden Payne Council, a volunteer organization sponsored by the Austin Creative Alliance, is tasked with viewing and nominating outstanding production elements in Austin. The Department of Theatre and Dance, as well as its students, faculty, alumni and staff, were nominated for many awards in a broad range of categories. The winners were announced at the B. Iden Payne Awards Ceremony on November 8, 2021, many of which are Theatre and Dance affiliates. 

Sara Akers awarded “For the Love of Art” award

Nov. 1, 2021

Akers (M.F.A., Drama, 1983) is also a member of UTeach Fine Arts Advisory Committee and the artistic director of Plano Children's Theatre.