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Donald Hale selected as the lone Finalist Honorable Mention for the 2022 American Prize in Conducting

June 22, 2022 | The American Prize

Hale's (B.M., Composition, 2019) qualifying performance was of Joel Puckett's flute concerto "The Shadow of Sirius" in collaboration with the Texas Christian University Wind Symphony and Dr. Shauna Thompson, professor of flute. Hale currently serves as Director of Orchestras and Assistant Director of Bands at Lamar High School in Houston, Texas. 

Donald Hale selected as the lone Finalist Honorable Mention for the 2022 American Prize in Conducting

"The Fantasticks" creator Tom Jones rewrites classic musical as gay love story

June 16, 2022 | Playbill

Jones (B.F.A., Theatrical Design, 1949) and Harvey Schmidt's The Fantasticks tells an allegorical story loosely based on Edmund Rostand's 1894 play The Romancers (Les Romanesques), concerning two neighboring parents who trick their children into falling in love by pretending to feud. The LGBTQIA+ focused rewrite features two young gay men, Matt and Lewis, at the center of the story, instead of a young man and woman (the original characters were Matt and Luisa).

The Fantasticks creator Tom Jones rewrites classic musical as gay love story

Alumni Guinevere "Gwenny" Govea workshops new musical at Pegasus PlayLab

June 16, 2022 | UT Theatre and Dance

Govea (B.A. in Theatre and Dance and Bachelor of Journalism, 2021) and Anna Pickett (B.S. in Youth and Community Studies, 2021) workshopped their new musical Spells of the Sea at Pegasus PlayLab at the University of Central Florida in Orlando.

Alumni Guinevere Gwenny Govea workshops new musical at Pegasus PlayLab

Ariel Davis partners with Margery Gossett of Artspace111 in Fort Worth to open a new gallery space, Love Texas Art

June 16, 2022 | Fort Worth Weekly

Love Texas Art features exhibition space and is about to open a residency studio program. Davis (B.F.A., Studio Art, 2010) was recently profiled in a cover story in the Fort Worth Weekly that details her current endeavors, and her career journey as an artist and gallerist. 

Ariel Davis partners with Margery Gossett of Artspace111 in Fort Worth to open a new gallery space, Love Texas Art