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The University of Texas at Austin Department of Theatre and Dance presents UTNT (UT New Theatre). UTNT is an annual showcase of new plays from third-year playwrights in the M.F.A. Playwriting Program.
The Department of Theatre and Dance and Michener Center for Writers have been heralded nationally as incubators for new work (American Theatre). Notable alumni of these programs include Lisa D’ Amour (2011 Pulitzer Prize Finalist, Detroit), Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig (2011 Wasserstein Award Recipient, The World of Extreme Happiness), George Brant (2008 Keene Prize for Literature, Elephant’s Graveyard) and Kirk Lynn (2011 USA Fellow in Theatre Arts). UTNT founder and former Department of Theatre and Dance faculty member Steven Dietz shares, “Tomorrow's plays are at UTNT today. UTNT is known as the launching pad to award-winning and widely produced new work for the American stage.”
2021-2022
Tiny Fingerprints by Jaymes Sanchez
Murky as Hell written and directed by Andrea L. Hart
Jinkies! or The Dog Play by Josiah Thomas Turner
2020-2021
Part One (Fall 2020)
poolboy00 by Sam Mayer
Wyeth Airlines Flight Thirteen by Lena Barnard
Part Two (Spring 2021)
Community Garden by Renae Simone Jarrett
Radiance by Gursimrat Kaur
sad women being sad by Jenny Krick (co-written by Andrea L. Hart)
Fall the House by Braxton Rae
OCD by Hee-won Kim
2019-2020
Sow and Suckling by Dan Caffrey
Tjipetir: A Search History by I.B. Hopkins
A Fistful of Trespassing by Minghao Tu
Bog Butter by Cecelia Raker
Not Omaha by Paul William Kruse
Toros by Danny Tejera
rain falls special on me by Lane Michael Stanley
The Book of Orpah by Jess Shoemaker
2018-2019
a place called the middle by I-Chia Chiu
Three Shitty Sons by Hannah Kenah
30 Floods by Daria Miyeko Marinelli
Flora Circular by Thom May
2016-2017
Gondal by Kimberly Belflower
Slumber Party by Elizabeth Doss
The Bigot by William Glick
Galactic Orphans by Megan Tabaque
2015-2016
The Silent Woman by Lydia Blaisdell
The Orange Garden by Joanna Garner
381 Bleecker by Gia Marotta
Girls in Cars Underwater by Tegan McLeod
2014-2015
Karlstad by Patrick Shaw
Hold Me Well by Eva Suter
Good Day by Diana Lynn Small
Lyla School by Brian Kettler
2013-2014
Annie Jump and the Library of Heaven by Reina Hardy
Advance Man by Abe Koogler
'ratio Visual Narrative by William Anderson and Text Narrative by David Turkel
Still Now by Katie Bender
Or, "The One with the Dogs" by Briandaniel Oglesby
2012-2013
Dream of Perfect Sleep by Kevin Kautzman
70 Secrets of Marmalade Kittens by Gabrielle Reisman
The Kingdom by Andrew Hinderaker
A Perfect Robot by Sarah Saltwick
2011-2012
Bacha Bazi (Boy Play) by Gabriel Jason Dean
The Chronicles of Bad Ass Women by Holli Gipson
River City by Diana Grisanti
Static by Tom Horan
2010-2011
Yours by Meghan Kennedy
Rivers of January by Ben Snyder
2009-2010
White Tie Ball by Martin Zimmerman
Blue Point by Kyle John Schmidt
The Tides of Aberdeen by Erin Phillips
2008-2009
Lidless by Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig
Portrait by Jenny Connell
2007-2008
The Chev by Robert Sanchez
Split by Erica Saleh
Why Koreans Don't Hug by Soo-Jin Lee
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