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2023/2024 Season

Ride the Cyclone

Book & Music & Lyrics by Jacob Richmond and Brooke Maxwell
Directed by Jenny Lavery
Photo: Thomas Allison

Fall For Dance (2023)

Artistic Director: Erica “EG” Gionfriddo
Photo: Sarah Navarrete

The siblings reconcile with a hug, as Leo lets himself don his majestic cape once more, with his water bottle in hand, of course.

The Smartest Girl in the World

By Miriam Gonzales
Directed by Roxanne Schroder-Arce
Photo: Thomas Allison

Eian Johnson as Frau Mika dances in the potato field to the plight of a disgusted Frau Sevallia played by Mia Ngyuen, and unbothered Frau Betty and Frau Thera, played by Angela Mata and Carlise Rosa respectively.

UTNT (UT New Theatre): Choreomaniac 1518

By Malena Pennycook
Directed by Caley Chase
Photo: Thomas Allison

UTNT readings:
Taste Buds: The Adventures of Cake and Broccoli by Claire Derriennic
spayce boys by Mateo Hernandez

Shalom Onuorah as Jen and Oliver Aaro as Arthur sit on opposite ends of a see-saw, discussing something important. Arthur is up in the air, talking with his hands, while Jen is on the ground listening intently.

UTNT (UT New Theatre): Pretend it's Pretend

By Emma Watkins
Directed by Jenny Lavery
Photo: Thomas Allison

UTNT readings:
Taste Buds: The Adventures of Cake and Broccoli by Claire Derriennic
spayce boys by Mateo Hernandez

A group of at least seven dancers hold up another dancer, who is holding her arms out at right angles next to her

Points of Intersection

Artistic Directors: Erica “EG” Gionfriddo and Angelica Monteiro
Photo: Sarah Navarrete

Romeo and her friends and cousins share a drink while hatching a plan to win Juliet's heart

Romeo y Juliet

Adapted by KJ Sanchez and Karen Zacarías, written by Karen Zacarías
from William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet
Directed by Anna Skidis Vargas
Photo: Essentials Creative

2022/2023 Season

Two dancers caught mid-jump with their left legs and arms extended and their right arms and legs bent

The Cohen New Works Festival (2023)

Photo: Thomas Allison

EMERGE

Artistic Director: Gesel Mason
Co-Producing Artistic Directors: Erica “EG” Gionfriddo and Dorothy O’Shea Overbey
Photo: Thomas Allison

An actor looks down, leaning with their hands on top of a desk, while another actor looks on and a third actor watches from behind a wall of haze

UTNT (UT New Theatre): Address the Body!

By Zachariah Ezer
Directed by Dominique Rider
Photo: Thomas Allison

UTNT readings:
Harold by Justine Gelfman
mirror, mirror by Mia Gomez-Reyes

Two actors sitting on a stone bench look out into the distance, deep in thought, with stars projected behind them and a ring of orange light beneath them

UTNT (UT New Theatre): V ery Blue Light

By Daphne Silbiger
Directed by Kristen Osborn
Photo: Thomas Allison

UTNT readings:
Harold by Justine Gelfman
mirror, mirror by Mia Gomez-Reyes

A dancer whose hair covers her face poses on stage

Fall For Dance (2022)

Co-Artistic Directors: Leah Cox, Joel Valentín-Martínez
Producing Artistic Director: Erica “EG” Gionfriddo
Photo: Thomas Allison

Five panelists sit at the front of the classroom. One is in the foreground speaking with her hands in front of her, while four other panelists watch in the background

PPP@20: Celebrating 20 Years of Performance as Public Practice

Photo: Thomas Meredith

An actor stands, speaking passionately with her hands over her heart, while another actor looks on admiringly and a third actor sits to the side, looking shocked

In Sisters We Trust, or My F*cked Up American Girl Doll Play

By Justine Gelfman
Directed by Jenny Laver
Photo: Essentials Creative

Four actors in purple and gold robes and gold halo-like head pieces hold hands, looking out hopefully into the distance

...but you could've held my hand

By JuCoby Johnson
Directed by Braxton Rae
Photo: Thomas Allison

2021/2022 Season

actress sits on a stage with hundreds of stars projected on it, lifting her hand and looking up

Love and Information

Written by Caryl Churchill
Directed by Mike Steele
Photo: Thomas Allison

dancer with her braids pulled into a ponytail kicks her leg out in front of her, holding her arms at angles around her head

PIVOT

Co-Artistic Directors: Charles O. Anderson, Dorothy O'Shea Overbey, Quilan "Cue" Arnold
Producing Artistic Director: Erica “eg” Gionfriddo
Photo: Thomas Allison

actor wearing a rat mascot head holds an umbrella, surrounded by red stage lighting

UTNT (UT New Theatre): Jinkies! or The Dog Play

Written by Josiah Thomas Turner
Directed by Braxton Rae
Photo: Thomas Allison

two actors sit on blocks facing opposite directions, checkered with colorful projections

UTNT (UT New Theatre): Murky as Hell

Written and directed by Andrea L. Hart
Photo: Thomas Allison

three "Ghost Children" stand on train tracks behind a bus made of paper, looking concerned

UTNT (UT New Theatre): Tiny Fingerprints

Written by Jaymes Sanchez
Directed by Adam Flores
Photo: Thomas Allison

woman in a green shirt and yellow cape speaks into a microphone, with her left hand extended out

"Kimmy"

Written by Farah Lawal Harris
Directed by Yunina Barbour-Payne
Photo: Thomas Allison

director records an ensemble member performing a dance in front of trees

kin • song: ode to disability ancestors

Conceived and directed by Alexis Riley

a dancer in a red dress throws his long train of red fabric, lining up with another dancer's outstretched arm

Fall For Dance (2021)

Co-Artistic Directors: Leah Cox, Joel Valentín-Martínez
Producing Artistic Director: Erica “eg” Gionfriddo
Photo: Essentials Creative, Thomas Allison and Sarah Annie Navarrete

actor wearing a white dog head puts her hands on her ears, carted in by an actor in a striped apron

The Tasters

Written by Meghan Brown
Directed by Kristen Osborn
Photo: Thomas Allison

man with his arms outstretched as if flying, with a shadow crossing his face

Sonnets for an Old Century

Written by José Rivera
Directed by Corey Allen
Photo: Essentials Creative

2020/2021 Season

man with a scarf wrapped around his mouth and nose looks up, with an icy Antarctic background behind him

UTNT (UT New Theatre): OCD

By Hee-won Kim
Directed by Mike Steele

a woman with short dark hair and a yellow mask crosses her arms with a knife in one hand

UTNT (UT New Theatre): Fall the House

By Nicholas Kaidoo.
Directed by Braxton Rae.
Photo: Amber Whatley

actress lying down on a red sofa looks concerned while turning her face towards the size

UTNT (UT New Theatre): sad women being sad (2021)

Written and co-directed by Jenny Krick
Co-directed by Andrea L. Hart
Photo: Andrea L. Hart

man with glasses and a vest holds a rotary phone in one hand and a cigarette in the other

UTNT (UT New Theatre): Radiance (2021)

Written by Gursimrat Kaur.
Directed by Giana Blazquez.
Photo: Gursimrat Kaur

dancer with dark, curly hair holds her arms out around her while looking up

del corazón nace el enjambre (2021)

Conceived and directed by Erica Patricia Saucedo.
Photo: Brooke Bower

actor in a tiger striped suit coat and mask sits on a couch

Year of the Tiger (2021)

Directed by Khristián Méndez Aguirre
Photo: Jacob Eaker

actress closes her eyes, standing in front of a screen with remote dancers performing

burst! (2021)

Conceived and Directed by Gesel Mason
Photo: Sydney Pattillo

woman washed in pink light holds one hand to her heart and the other outstretched close to the camera

In the Ether (2020)

Conceived and Directed by Erica Gionfriddo
Photo: Erica Gionfriddo

actress looking down wearing a mask and colorful barrettes

UTNT (UT New Theatre): Wyeth Airlines Flight Thirteen (2020)

By Lena Barnard
Directed by Andrea L. Hart
Photo: Jacob Eaker

three men with mustaches have a conversation within their individual streaming windows through Twitch

UTNT (UT New Theatre): poolboy00 (2020)

By Sam Mayer
Directed by Mike Steele
Photo: Sydney Pattillo

six actresses perform remotely, their Zoom square layered over a pink desert scene

La Ruta (2020)

By Isaac Gómez
Directed by Anna Skidis Vargas
Photo: Megan Bommarito

dancer wearing a mask clenches his fists, standing under ladders

(Re)current Unrest (2020)

Conceived and Directed by Charles O. Anderson
Photo: Fabian Leon Villa

2019/2020 Season

actors and ensemble posing on the set of MARCUS; OR THE SECRET OF SWEET

Marcus; or the Secret of Sweet (2020)

By Tarell Alvin McCraney
Directed by Charles O. Anderson and Robert Ramirez
Photo: Lawrence Peart

The Hero Twins: Blood Race (2019)

By Ramón Esquivel
Directed by Will Kiley
Photo: Lawrence Peart

Spring Awakening (2019)

Book and Lyrics by Steven Sater
Music by Duncan Sheik
Based on the play by Frank Wedekind
Directed by Anna Skidis Vargas
Photo: Lawrence Peart

Fall For Dance (2019)

Artistic Direction by Dorothy O'Shea Overbey and Gesel Mason
Photo: Lawrence Peart

12 Ophelias (a play with broken songs) (2019)

By Caridad Svich
Directed by Jess Shoemaker
Photo: Lawrence Peart

2018/2019 Season

2019 Cohen New Works Festival performance of Existence is Resistance

Cohen New Works Festival (2019)

Presented by Broadway Bank
Photo: Lawrence Peart

The Women of _______ (a song not song) (2019)

By I-Chia Chiu, kt shorb and the ensemble
Directed by kt shorb
Photo: Lawrence Peart

Evolution (2019)

Choreographer Instruction by Erica Gionfriddo
Concert and Event Lighting Instruction by Matthew Smith
Visual Programming Instruction by Michael McKellar
Photo: Lawrence Peart

UTNT (UT New Theatre) performance of Three Shitty Sons (2019)

UTNT (UT New Theatre): Three Shitty Sons (2019)

By Hannah Kenah
Directed by Mason Rosenthal
Photo: Lawrence Peart

Fortitude (2019)

Artistic Direction by Andrea Beckham and Erica Gionfriddo
Photo: Lawrence Peart

UTNT (UT New Theatre) 2019 performance of Flora Circular

UTNT (UT New Theatre): Flora Circular (2019)

By Daria Miyeko Marinelli
Directed and Developed with Anna Skidis Vargas
Photo: Lawrence Peart

UTNT (UT New Theatre) 2019 production of a place called the middle

UTNT (UT New Theatre): a place called the middle (2019)

By I-Chia Chiu
Directed by Adam L. Sussman
Photo: Lawrence Peart

The Merchant of Venice (2018)

By William Shakespeare
Directed by Adam L. Sussman
Photo: Lawrence Peart

2018 Fall For Dance production of Proving Ground

Fall For Dance (2018)

Artistic Direction by Charles O. Anderson, Dorothy O'Shea Overbey and Gesel Mason
Photo: Lawrence Peart

Matawan (2018)

By Dan Caffrey
Directed by Lane Michael Stanley
Photo: Lawrence Peart

2017/2018 Season

Transcendence (2018)

Artistic Direction by Charles O. Anderson and Andrea Beckham
Photo: Lawrence Peart

The Drowsy Chaperone (2017)

By Bob Miller and Don McKellar
Directed by Nick Mayo
Photo: Lawrence Peart

The Crucible (2017)

By Arthur Miller
Directed by Michael Fry
Photo: Lawrence Peart

Fall For Dance (2017)

Artistic Direction by Jeremy Arnold, Erica Gionfriddo and Dorothy O'Shea Overbey
Photo: Lawrence Peart

Anon(ymous) (2017)

By Naomi Iizuka
Directed by Sam Provenzano
Photo: Lawrence Peart

Building The Wall (2017)

By Robert Schenkkan
Directed by Brant Pope
Photo: Lawrence Peart

2016/2017 Season

person in black draped over another person

Momentum (2017)

Artistic Directors: Charles O. Anderson, Jeremy Arnold, Lyn C. Wiltshire
Photo: Lawrence Peart

Luna (2017)

By Ramón Esquivel
Directed by Roxanne Schroeder-Arce
Photo: Lawrence Peart

Cohen New Works Festival (2017)

Presented by Broadway Bank
Photo: Lawrence Peart

UTNT (UT New Theatre) 2017 production of The Bigot

UTNT (UT New Theatre): The Bigot (2017)

By William Glick
Directed by Hannah Wolf
Photo: Lawrence Peart

UTNT (UT New Theatre) 2017 production of Slumber Party

UTNT (UT New Theatre): Slumber Party (2017)

By Elizabeth Doss
Co-Directed by Cara Phipps and Elizabeth Doss
Photo: Lawrence Peart

UTNT (UT New Theatre) 2017 production of Gondal

UTNT (UT New Theatre): Gondal (2017)

By Kimberly Belflower
Directed by Adam Sussman
Photo: Lawrence Peart

UTNT (UT New Theatre) 2017 production of Galactic Orphans

UTNT (UT New Theatre): Galactic Orphans (2017)

By Megan Tabaque
Directed by Graham Schmidt
Photo: Lawrence Peart

Lost Girl (2016)

A new play by Kimberly Belflower
Directed by Cara Phipps
Photo: Lawrence Peart

Little Women The Broadway Musical (2016)

Book by Allan Knee
Music by Jason Howland
Lyrics by Mindi Dickstein
Based on the Novel by Louisa May Alcott
Directed by Melissa Maxwell
Photos: Lawrence Peart