Recent News

Alumnus Martin Zimmerman's (M.F.A. 2010) On the Exhale features in a piece from The New York Times about how theatre reckons with gun violence in modern society and the ways in which it can change our perspective. 

Head of Acting, Robert Ramirez will be directing Julius Caesar this summer as part of Arkansas Shakespeare Theatre. Joining him is acting faculty member, Quetta Carpenter who will be playing "Cassius" (Julius Caesar) and "Princess of France" (Love's Labour's Lost), as well as students Tucker Martin as "Tommy" (The Music Man) and "Trebonius" (Julius Caesar); and Rama Tchuente as "Metellus" (Julius Caesar) and "Maria" (Love's Labour's Lost). 

Alumnus Will Davis, artistic director of American Theatre Company (ATC) in Chicago discusses his process and planning his first season in his new role that includes work that reckons with race, gender, culture and controversy with American Theatre. 

An accomplished playwright and screenwriter, Tremblay received the Access to Artistic Excellence Award from the National Endowment for the Arts as well as the Best New Play for Young Audiences from the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. A celebration of his life will be held at the Paramount Theatre (Austin, Texas) on April 30.

Theatre and Dance alumnus J. Quinton Johnson is currently playing "Hercules Mulligan/James Madison" in the smash-hit Hamilton on Broadway. The Austin Chronicle sat down with Johnson to discuss his role in Hamilton and his Austin roots. 

Drama and Theatre for Youth and Communities graduate Talleri McRae (M.F.A. 2010) has been recognized in American Theatre's Roll Call. She is currently a teaching artists, access/inclusion consultant whose work focuses on fostering the creativity and passion of the disability rights movement and developing meaningful theatre for young audiences. 

A Singularity, created by by Carleigh Newland, Kelsey Linberg and Tess Jackson will be staged as part of The Cohen New Works Festival and follows the story of a Syrian refugee trying to find her home and her identity as a woman, a refugee and an individual after losing everything to war.

The experience of watching a play serves helps us to experience the world around us in a multitude of ways. We walk away from a theatrical experience with a different perspective than what we had before. By experiencing Luna on tour, elementary and middle school-aged students across Austin are being treated to an experience unlike anything many of them have had before.

Faculty member Dr. Paul Bonin-Rodriguez examines the value of a Bachelor of Arts degree as a response to Secretary Betsey DeVos's commentary on higher education and the "noble pursuit" of vocational schools and/or community colleges for bachelor programs.