Theatre Department

Alan MacVey, Director. Phone: (319) 335-2700.
For more information, visit http://www.uiowa.edu/~theatre/index.html.

The University of Iowa Theatre Arts Department is one of the oldest and most respected theatre programs in the country. The department offers students the opportunity to earn an undergraduate BA degree, or an MFA degree with an emphasis in acting, directing, design, playwriting, dramaturgy or stage management.

Art Borreca, Director. Phone: (319) 335-2700.
For more information, visit http://www.uiowa.edu/~theatre/programs/grad-playwriting.html.

The Iowa Playwrights Workshop—The University of Iowa's MFA Program in Playwriting—is an intensive three-year program dedicated to educating playwrights for the professional theatre. The objective of the program is to train talented playwrights as writers and collaborative theatre artists who will lead the American theatre in the creation of new works and the training of future generations of writers and theatre artists.

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Past Events:
Leaner than Light: 12 Frames of Paul Engle, 10/24/09
Global Express, 10/24/09
Leaner than Light: 12 Frames of Paul Engle, 10/23/09
UNESCO Gala Event, 4/07/09
MFA Directors One-Act Play Festival, 12/05/08
Performance: “Dust Town” by Morgan Sheehan-Bubla, 5/10/08
Play Reading: “Painted Skin” by Joe Luis Cedillo, 5/10/08
Performance: “We Three” by Mary Hamilton, 5/09/08
Play Reading: “Mourning Aletheia” by Joshua Casteel, 5/09/08
Undergraduate Playwrights Workshop, 5/08/08
Play Reading: “The House of Grateful” by Sheela Kangal, 5/08/08
Performance: “A History of Bad Ideas” by Greg Machlin, 5/07/08
Performance: “Seven Dreams of Her” by Sarah Sander, 5/06/08
Play Reading: “Why Love Doesn’t Even Know Its Name” by Lisa Leaverton, 5/06/08
Performance: “The Toymaker’s War” by Jennifer Fawcett, 5/05/08
Play Reading: “Bajo Augua” by Tony Meneses, 5/05/08
‘The Church of St. Pinky at Katy, Texas,’ by Melissa Leilani Larson, 5/05/07
‘The Church of St. Pinky at Katy, Texas,’ by Melissa Leilani Larson, 5/05/07
‘What We Must,’ by Morgan Sheehan-Bubla, 5/05/07
‘WorkWeek,’ by Sarah Sander, 5/04/07
‘WorkWeek,’ by Sarah Sander, 5/04/07
‘Thief Unseen,’ Mary Hamilton, 5/04/07
‘Kiddush,’ by Joshua Casteel, 5/03/07
‘The Dance,’ by Kim Euell, 5/02/07
‘The Dance,’ by Kim Euell, 5/02/07
‘This Is Your Life,’ by Greg Machlin, 5/02/07
‘I Am Montana,’ by Samuel D. Hunter, 5/01/07
‘I Am Montana,’ by Samuel D. Hunter, 5/01/07
‘Versus,’ by Austin Bunn, 5/01/07
‘The Brothers Dellapina,” Sean Christopher Lewis, 4/30/07
‘The Brothers Dellapina,” Sean Christopher Lewis, 4/30/07
‘BONNY Girls!’ by Jennifer Fawcett, 4/30/07
‘Pouring Tea: Black Gay Men of the South Tell Their Tales,” by E. Patrick Johnson, 3/23/07
‘Returns,’ by Joshua Casteel, 2/18/07
‘Returns,’ by Joshua Casteel, 2/17/07
‘Returns,’ by Joshua Casteel, 2/16/07
‘Returns,’ by Joshua Casteel, 2/15/07
‘8 X 10,’ 10-Minute Play Festival, 2/11/07
‘8 X 10,’ 10-Minute Play Festival, 2/10/07
‘Take 10’ Playwalk, 2/10/07
‘8 X 10,’ 10-Minute Play Festival, 2/09/07
‘8 X 10,’ 10-Minute Play Festival 10th Anniversary, 2/08/07
‘Into the Woods,’ by Stephen Sondheim, 2/04/07
‘Into the Woods,’ by Stephen Sondheim, 2/03/07
‘Into the Woods,’ by Stephen Sondheim, 2/02/07
‘Into the Woods,’ by Stephen Sondheim, 2/01/07
‘Into the Woods,’ by Stephen Sondheim, 1/28/07
‘Into the Woods,’ by Stephen Sondheim, 1/27/07
‘Into the Woods,’ by Stephen Sondheim, 1/26/07
Into the Woods, 1/25/07
365 Days/365 Plays Festival, 12/11/06
Tallgrass Gothic, 12/10/06
Tallgrass Gothic, 12/09/06
Tallgrass Gothic, 12/08/06
Tallgrass Gothic, 12/07/06
No Shame Theatre, 10/27/06
James Tate, 10/26/06
“Bloody Lies,” by Greg Machlin, 10/26/06
Undergraduate Director’s Festival, 10/19/06
Global Express, 10/14/06
No Shame Theatre, 20th Anniversary: Best of the Best of No shame, 10/14/06
“Red Noses,” by Peter Barnes, 10/12/06
“Manna or the Book of Madeleine”, 10/05/06