The nominations for the 41st Annual Lucille Lortel Awards, honoring Off and Off-Off Broadway theatre, were announced April 1. New musical Mexodus, written by and starring Brian Quijada (2011 BA) and Nygel D. Robinson, led the nominations with nine awards (including Outstanding Musical).

Hurt, a deeply talented and versatile actor of stage and screen, was a 1968 BA graduate in the UI Department of Theatre Arts.

Brian Quijada (2011 BA) and Nygel D. Robinson star in the live-looping musical, back for an encore run after premiering via Audible Theater last year.

How Brian Quijada and Nygel D. Robinson’s historical musical went from concept album to crackling live show to audio play with a timely tale of migrant and fugitive solidarity.

Cathy Parrott (2001 BA) led one undergraduate student and two MFA candidates to Bali, Indonesia, where she had been invited to present at the Bali–Global Axis of Arts and Design II (B‑GAAD II) conference

Faculty members Mary Beth Easley and Mark Bruckner and Kaelen Novak (2023 Design MFA) have received USITT’s Herbert D. Greggs Publication Merit Award, a recognition that honors innovative, in-depth writing about theatre design and technology. Their article, “Making the Unimaginable Real,” was published in the latest issue of USITT’s quarterly journal, Theatre Design & Technology (TD&T).