Summer Highlight: Student Summer 2025 News

We want to keep our community informed by showcasing the outstanding projects and activities our students had going on this Summer.

UTeach Theatre:

Junior Stevie Anderson is working with UTeach Fine Arts Outstanding Educator recipient Christopher Reese at the Carver Cultural Community Center on his new musical, One Big Mess, for the center’s Summer Theatre Intensive as a Technical Director/Stage Manager. 

Junior Eugenio Chapa Galvan worked at the Harris Arts Center in Calhoun, GA, during the month of June as a Technical Operator for their Calhoun Little Theatre production of Bonnie & Clyde. As a Technical Operator, his main tasks were to oversee, organize, and operate the microphones and sound for the musical production.

Junior Alexis Adams had the opportunity to work for the Georgetown Palace Theatre in Georgetown, Texas, this summer as a camp counselor. The camp ran from June 2nd to August 8th.

Junior Hayden Presley has a remote internship with Students Demand Action and attended their Summer Organizing Institute as a college trainer in Minnesota, where she met the First Lady of Minnesota, Gwen Walz.

Senior Faith Bouchelle had the opportunity to study abroad in Vienna, Austria, for five weeks (June 4, 2025-July 4, 2025) this summer. She studied the development of cultural memory in Vienna and its manifestation in the urban landscape. Once back in the States, she will return to North Texas Performing Arts for her third year as a teaching artist.

Senior Sophia Campbell is participating in UTNY this summer! She will be living in the heart of New York City for 10 weeks, where she will take classes in the arts, marketing, and urban leadership/engagement, in addition to interning for the Broadway Teaching Group, supporting their annual Broadway Teachers Workshop. All while sightseeing and taking in the fantastic art opportunities NYC has to offer!

Senior Rosy Esquenazi participated in UT’s Maymester program in Italy this summer. She studied Italian Approaches to Early Childhood Education. Throughout three and a half weeks, she visited three cities across distinct regions of Italy, including Rome, Reggio Emilia, and Florence, where she had the opportunity to immerse herself in different Italian cultures and observe how these cultural contexts shape the quality of early childhood education and care. After returning home to Panama, she led a summer camp where participants prepared and performed scenes from musical theatre shows and films.

UTeach Music: 

Senior Dominique Sharifi will be traveling to the Texas Choral Directors Association summer conference in San Antonio to participate in their student-conducting workshop. Through this experience, she will have the opportunity to meet other Texas college students and receive feedback on her conducting, which will be very helpful as she enters her first teaching job this Fall.

UTeach Dance:

UTeach Dance Seniors, Megan Ramos, Claire Anstey & Hunter Purvis are in New York City this summer participating in programming at the Dance Education Laboratory!