Drama and Theatre for Youth and Communities M.F.A. program at UT Austin

Congratulations on the opening week to the cast of Luna!

This lady is directing a staged reading of Emma and the Suzies by Anthony Aguilar at the ALNPF tomorrow at the MACC. Check it out at 3 pm! Congratulations Sam Provenzano!

Congrats first year DTYC student Lina Chambers and the entire cast and crew of Gondal.

Appreciations at the end of the semester colloquium!

Celebrating our third years during their last week of grad school! So much amazing work from such amazing people.

Congratulations to Dr. Megan Alrutz for receiving the 2016 Harold Oaks Award for an Individual! She is an individual we are all so grateful to know!

Theatre for Young Audiences/USA » TYA/USA Announces 2016 Harold Oaks Awards TYAUSAMay 03 2016Harold Oaks Awards, Home, Member News, Member Organization News, TYA/USA News0 TYA/USA Announces 2016 Harold Oaks Awards Megan Alrutz, Linda Hartzell, David Saar, & Children’s Theatre of Charlotte to receive The 2016 Harold Oaks Awards PRESENTED BY THEATRE FOR YOUNG AUDIENCES/USA Ch…

Congratulations to Dr. Megan Alrutz for receiving the Joe and Bettie Branson Ward Endowed Excellence Award! We're so grateful to have Dr. Megan on our faculty and as a part of the DTYC community.
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Dr. Megan Alrutz Named Recipient of Ward Endowed Excellence Award - Department of Theatre &... Granted once every three years by The University of Texas at Austin Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost, this award recognizes the belief that education involves positive change and is the aggregate of all processes by means of which a person, or groups of people, develop abilities, a…

Our first years enjoying their first Austin spring (complete with idyllic wildflowers)!

The Twelfth Night Community Engagement Committee worked hard to prepare the lobby display for the University of Texas at Austin Department of Theatre & Dance's production of Twelfth Night. Here's Sam hard at work, and a glimpse of the DTYC office, where driftwood and bottles were stored for weeks. This weekend's your last chance to enjoy the production, so don't miss out!

Wonderful colloquium session with guest artist Caroline Reck, producing artistic director of Glass Half Full Theatre...We are all appreciative of the knowledge she shared regarding puppetry and some of its history as well as learning some practical techniques.

We're so excited for our own, Cortney McEniry and her Ann Shaw Fellowship co-recipient, Lily Junker! Cortney and Lily will attend a Cornerstone Theatre Company Intensive on community based theatre-making, which they will use to help create a new community based performance with high school students at McCarter Theater Center in Princeton, NJ!

Congratulations, Cortney and Lily!

Find out more about their project here:

Announcing the Ann Shaw 2016 Winner! | Theatre for Young Audiences/USA TYA/USA and the Anne Shaw Fellowship committee congratulate Cortney McInery & Lily Junker, the 2016 Ann Shaw Fellowship co-recipients! Thank you to ALL of our 2016 applicants for your projects, contributions to the field, and your energy.

Check out this Op Ed by our professor Roxanne Schroeder-Arce!

S*x vs. Violence: What's Appropriate for Our Kids? Children need more access to video games, books and plays designed to help them understand s*xuality, media that incorporates s*x as a normal, positive activity to counter the popular narrative among children that s*x is "bad" and "gross."