Recent News

Teatro Vivo, one of the cornerstones of the Austin theatre community, is hosting the 2024 Austin Latinx New Play Festival, featuring work by many alumni and students from the Department of Theatre and Dance. Now in its 14th year, this annual festival showcasing new works by Latinx theatre artists.

Penfold Theatre Company has announced the two plays kicking off their new play reading series: Greyhound Famous, written by Tony Faia and directed by Rosalind Faires (B.A. 2015), and Anton Chekhov is a Tasty Snack, written by Jenny Connell Davis (M.F.A. 2009) and directed by Liz Fisher. 

Trey Curtis (B.F.A. 2017) discusses his journey to the Broadway stage alongside former student J. Quinton Johnson, from their first UT Theatre and Dance production to now performing in Hamilton on Broadway together, with Curtis taking on the titular role.

Faculty member Dr. Enzo E. Vasquez Toral serves as a conference organizer for the 2024 Lozano Long Conference: Indigenous Lands, Resisting Sexualities in Abiayala, taking place April 18-19, 2024.

Points of Intersection features original work by two guest choreographers, including Mexican choreographer and Fulbright Scholar Claudia Lavista. We spoke with Lavista and dancers Elizabeth Garza and Giuliana Velez about the process of collaborating on her piece Óxido (Rusty). 

Reimagining this lasting comedy by Noël Coward in Argentina in the 1930's, faculty member KJ Sanchez brings her directorial expertise to San Francisco's American Conservatory Theater for their 2024/2025 season.

Meet the cast and creative team collaborating to bring ROMEO Y JULIET, a bilingual retelling of one of Shakespeare's most cherished works, to the Oscar G. Brockett Theatre. 

M.F.A. candidate Deen Rawlins-Harris recounts their experiences as a teaching artist in St. John, US Virgin Islands in a recent essay for HowlRound Theatre Commons. They break down the lessons they learned and the methodologies they incorporated while creating devised theatre with their students.

Ahead of its world premiere, Dr. Lisa B. Thompson (faculty) and Bonnie Cullum (M.F.A. 1989) talk with American Theatre magazine about Thompson's new play, The Black Feminist Guide to the Human Body, debuting at the VORTEX Theatre April 12-May 4, 2024.

Love Muwwakkil (M.F.A. 2023) was selected for the 2024 The LINE Residency with Big Medium. This residency, partially funded by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, provides studio spaces to artists in the middle of downtown Austin, in an effort to combat the loss of space for artistic creation.