| | Hello Alumni and Friends,
We hope you all enjoyed your summer!
We're just a few weeks into the start of a new semester and it feels so good to be together once again. Our students and faculty are masking up and doing their best to keep each other safe so that we can continue creating the work we love. Please find additional information about our upcoming season below.
In addition to sharing our news this year, we'd like to know what you all are doing! Please submit your alumni news here for possible inclusion on our social media, in future e-newsletters, and on the theatre arts website.
Best wishes from the Department of Theatre Arts!
| | | Theatre Arts 2021-22 Season | 
As always, we’re very excited to bring you a season of new works by our graduate and undergraduate students.
The department will also present two mainstage productions in the coming months, including Stephen Adly Guirgis’s Our Lady of 121st Street (October 8-16) and Smile Medicine by Dakota Parobek (November 12-20). We hope to see some familiar faces in our audiences this fall!
Tickets for mainstage productions will be on sale soon through the Hancher Box Office. Please find complete details at arts.uiowa.edu.
Capacity is limited in our theatres and masks are strongly encouraged for all audience members. | | | I'm Writing to You Today | 
In celebration of the return of students to campus this fall, the we have re-launched Ann Kreitman's I'm Writing to You Today.
This experience will lead listeners through campus in the footsteps of our queer ancestors. Go alone or in pairs to reimagine campus as the backdrop for historical queer love letters.
Now available for download on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Available through September 26, 2021.
I'm Writing to You Today is a gift to the LGBTQ+ community of Iowa, celebrating the fact that we always have and always will find our path to love.
This experience was created in collaboration with the Pride Alliance Center and is part of the Borderless series.
If you can't be here with us on campus for this experience, we still encourage you to download and listen!
Visit our Virtual Lobby to learn more about the collaborators. | | | Alumni Spotlight: Karen Woditsch | | | | | Faculty News | Art Borreca’s essay, “Rethinking Difference,” was featured on the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas (LMDA) website, as part of their “Dramaturging the Phoenix” forum, in May. During the summer, Art taught courses in Script Analysis and Modern Drama online for the Hollins University MFA Playwrights Lab and the University of International Business and Economics in Beijing, China.
This past August, Mark Bruckner did sound/original music and interactive audio installation for the Off-Broadway premiere of Alma Baya by Edward Einhorn and Untitled Theatre Company #61. The production opened in preview on August 13 at the A.R.T./NY Gural Theatre and closed on August 28 with livestreams on August 14 and 15. It is available on-demand until September 18.
Body Concert, the solo puppet work by master puppeteer Kevin Augustine of Lone Wolf Tribe, which features my original score for electronic music, cello, piano, and oboe + ambisonic installation, will receive its New York premiere at LaMama on October 7-10 as part of the LaMama International Puppet Festival. Body Concert will also be presented in March 2022 at the Montreal Internation Puppetry Festival.
Theatre Arts faculty, and MFA cohort acting teacher Caroline Clay is currently serving as voice and dialect coach for the Off-Broadway hit, TONI STONE. A play about the first of three African-American women to play in the previously all-male Negro Leagues, it is now in previews at Arena Stage in Washington, D.C. The play is written by Lydia R. Diamond (The Bluest Eye, Stickfly) and directed by Pam McKinnon, artistic director of American Conservatory Theater. | | | |
