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The Process Behind the Play: The UTNT 2024 Playwrights Speak on Their Shows

UTNT (UT New Theatre) opens for its 17th season this Thursday, February 29. This festival exists as an incubator for new work, but that begs the question – how did these new plays come to be? What went on in the minds of these four playwrights that led them to collaborate with others to create the work seen on stage? To answer these questions, we spoke with the playwrights whose plays make up this year’s UTNT (UT New Theatre) festival.

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MEET THE CASTS OF UTNT (UT NEW THEATRE), 2024

UTNT (UT New Theatre) is a showcase of new plays by M.F.A. candidate playwrights from Texas Theatre and Dance and the Michener Center for Writers. This year marks the 17th season of this festival that unites theatre-makers across disciplines in the process of bringing forth new work to the stage, through readings and productions. Collaboration is how these plays get made, as producing artistic director Alexandra Bassiakou Shaw states. When these shows hit the stage, UTNT asks you, the audience, to become collaborators as these plays reach their final stage of the development process here at UT Austin. We invite you to meet your collaborators – the artists bringing these works to life in the Oscar G. Brockett Theatre.

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Addressing the Climate Crisis Through the Arts: PT2050’s Artist Fellowship

Last academic year, Planet Texas 2050 piloted a new Artist Fellowship, inviting creatives from all disciplines to apply and contribute to research exploring the impacts of climate change. These artists would connect with their fellow cohorts and with PT2050 researchers, expanding their creative pursuits to deepen understandings of the climate crisis and community resilience. Faculty member Angelica Monteiro and M.F.A. candidate Deen Rawlins-Harris were among the eight artists selected for the first cohort of PT2050 Artist Fellows. We spoke with them, along with some key orchestrators behind PT2050’s fellowship, about the goals of this initiative and their experiences during the pilot year.

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