STEVE ADAMS’ (BA 1981) creative nonfiction essay Touch won a Pushcart Prize and will be published in the 2014 Pushcart Prize Anthology this November.
GABRIEL JASON DEAN (MFA 2012) and Dramatic Publishing received American Alliance for Theatre and Education’s Distinguished Play Award for Dean’s work The Transition of Doodle Pequeño. His play Terminus was selected for the Center of PlayPenn’s 2013 New Play Development Conference.
PRATIMA AGRAWAL (BFA 2013) is a theatre teacher at Arts Academy Charter School in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. MICHAEL BARNES (MA 1987, PhD 1993) is a 2013 inductee into the Austin Arts Hall of Fame, a group of artists, patrons, educators and arts advocates who have supported the growth of the arts in Austin, Texas. Barnes is a theatre historian and writer, who has worked as an arts reviewer and columnist for the Austin American-Statesman since 1989. HALEY BOX (BFA 2013) is a theatre teacher at Pleasant Grove High School in Texarkana, Texas.
VERITY BRANCO (MFA 2010), MARK SCHEIBMEIR (MFA 2010) and SMARANDA LUNA (MFA 2010) collaborated with fellow alumnus STEVE MOULDS (MFA 2011) to premiere their theatre company, Mixtape Theatre, and Mould’s Your Authentic Self at the 2013 Hollywood Fringe Festival.
MELISSA BROWN (BFA 2013) is a
Steve Adams (BA 1981)
SARAH HOWE COLEMAN (MFA 2012) received American Alliance for Theatre and Education’s Distinguished Thesis Award for Theatre and Citizenship: Playbuilding with English Language Learner Youth. BILL CRAVER (BFA 1952, MFA 1956), a distinguished Broadway producer and company manager, was awarded the 2013 Tony Honors for Excellence in the Theatre.
JOSEPH DAILEY (BFA 2013) is a theatre teacher at Stiles Middle School in Leander, Texas.
Now Now Oh Now by the Rude Mechs won the 2013 Austin Critics’ Table Award for Best Theatrical Event. Co-producing artistic directors of the Rude Mechs include MADGE DARLINGTON (MFA 2004), THOMAS GRAVES (MFA 2008) and KIRK LYNN (MFA 2004).
ROWAN DOYLE (MFA 2012), along with fellow alumni and collaborators TREY GILMORE (BA 2012), TOM HORAN (MFA 2012), COURTNEY SALE (MFA 2012) and CHENG WEI TENG (MFA 2012) received the 2013 Ensemble Performance Award from the Austin Critics’ Table for their new work The Poison Squad. In addition, they received awards for lighting design and sound design. The group’s theatre ensemble The Duplicates was formed in 2009.
Rebekah Maddux El-Hakam (BA 1999)
REBEKAH MADDUX EL-HAKAM (BA 1999) collaborated with Nashville-based record producer Marshall Altman to release her first full-length album, Radiant You, in September 2012. BRIAN C. FAHEY (MFA 2010) is a lecturer in the Department of Theatre at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, where he teaches acting and introductory theatre. He will direct Elephant’s Graveyard by fellow alumnus GEORGE BRANT (MFA 2008) this fall at Northeastern.
theatre teacher at Alvin Junior High School in Alvin, Texas.
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