Recent News

The University of Texas at Austin Department of Theatre and Dance is thrilled to announce Dr. Rachel Merrill Moss will join the department in fall 2025 as an Assistant Professor in Theatre History in the Performance as Public Practice area.

The Los Angeles Times talks to Kimberly Belflower (M.F.A. 2017) about her play John Proctor is the Villain in their recent spotlight, praising the play as "one of the most surprising and moving Broadway dramas in recent memory."

Demian Chavez Galvan (B.A. 2025) was selected as a recipient of the 2025 UT Co-Op George H. Mitchell Award for their B.A. Honors thesis project "Drama as a Methodology for Nahuatl Language Revitalization." Chavez Galvan was one of only six recipients campus-wide to receive this award.

Faculty member Barbara Chisholm is hailed as “remarkable” and “effortless” in her portrayal of "Ernestine" in Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park’s production of Birthday Candles by Noah Haidle, according to Talkin’ Broadway. As "Ernestine," Chisholm commands the stage without ever leaving it, portraying a lifetime over the course of the play.

Yunina Barbour-Payne (Ph.D. 2024) has been awarded the Michael H. Granof Outstanding Dissertation Award in Humanities and Fine Arts for her dissertation: Redbones, Blackbones and Other Bones to Pick: Formations of Affrilachian Aesthetics. 

Dr. Lisa B. Thompson was awarded the The University of Texas at Austin's prestigious 2024 Creative Endeavor Award for her work The Black Feminist Guide to the Human Body, a performance art piece which presents Thompson’s research on the health and welfare of Black women in the United States.