Auditions are now underway for our entire fall season: The House of Blue Leaves, Scenes from an Execution, and the Festival of Ten-Minute Plays. Read all the details in the right column on this page...

Work is already underway on our next annual festival of new works! Plays this year will include works by Julie Gafnea, Alec James, Emilie Soffe, Jordan Reeves, Stephen Webb, Jordan Bohl, and Alex Urquhart.

And yes, the rumors are true: this year's group of plays includes a ten-minute musical...

We didn't want to let Krystal Kennel go, but how could we stand in her way when she's been hired as Assistant Professor of Lighting and Sound at Columbus State University in Georgia? The good news is that our new Electrics person is recent grad Sarah Jordan, a first-class award-winning technical expert and all-around great person. So it's turned out all right for us after all...

BLOOD THINNER, a new play written by Cheryl Hall, competed against a bevy of other new works in the Big Apple, as part of the Strawberry One-Act Festival Summer 2008.

BLOOD THINNER rehearsal. Left to right: Jon Pack, Chris O'Connor, UAB Alum Luke Harlan, Joe Cooper, UAB Alum Elizabeth Ellis and director Jack Cannon

Maybe the coolest part is that the Strawberry One-Act Festival can now be viewed worldwide via the internet -- BLOOD THINNER is available for download in Series G, so we will definitely be having a video party in the department to watch that...

If you missed Soupçon, brace yourself to be told again and again what a wonderful experience passed you by. The festival offered new plays, poetry, music, paintings, and displays of design work -- and packed the Studio for all three shows. It was, as promised, an artistic sampler, "a little taste" (hence the name Soupçon) -- and the audiences went away delighted with the taste. Visit their Facebook page here.