Each year, we have a handful of special projects. These are opportunities that have come to our department, unique offerings outside of our other series.
Honors Projects are normally presented on one or two days in MacVey Theatre during the week following Spring Break. Projects must be proposed at least one semester in advance. Proposals submitted in April will take precedence. These projects may rehearse no more than 3 weeks, including the performance week.
Upcoming events
Ten-Minute Play Festival
By Undergraduate Playwrights
The University of Iowa Department of Theatre Arts is proud to present the 29th annual Ten-Minute Play Festival. Join us for the premiere of our undergraduate playwrights' new works, Artistic Directed by Tony Meneses!
The Ten-Minute Play Festival features 10-minute productions that are written, acted, designed, and run by undergraduate students. Support these students in a night that will have something for everyone.
Please be advised flashing and strobe lights will be...
Ten-Minute Play Festival
By Undergraduate Playwrights
The University of Iowa Department of Theatre Arts is proud to present the 29th annual Ten-Minute Play Festival. Join us for the premiere of our undergraduate playwrights' new works, Artistic Directed by Tony Meneses!
The Ten-Minute Play Festival features 10-minute productions that are written, acted, designed, and run by undergraduate students. Support these students in a night that will have something for everyone.
Please be advised flashing and strobe lights will be...
Ten-Minute Play Festival
By Undergraduate Playwrights
The University of Iowa Department of Theatre Arts is proud to present the 29th annual Ten-Minute Play Festival. Join us for the premiere of our undergraduate playwrights' new works, Artistic Directed by Tony Meneses!
The Ten-Minute Play Festival features 10-minute productions that are written, acted, designed, and run by undergraduate students. Support these students in a night that will have something for everyone.
Please be advised flashing and strobe lights will be...
Former Poster Child
Former Poster Child by Grace Nelson is a theatrically staged performance with accessibility at its core. Directed by Jason Vernon, as his Social Justice and the Performing Arts capstone project, this new work is an intentional and innovative experiment of form, reimagining the traditional theatre model and centering disabled stories for disabled audiences.
In this humorous “one woman” show, we invoke the lifecycle and investigate what it means to be human. Consider this play a "living memoir"...
2025-26 Special Projects
Global Express
Students from the UI Department of Theatre Arts bring the page to life in an evening of staged readings of work by the International Writing Program Fall Residents.
Global Express is a unique opportunity for writers from around the world and performers at Iowa to meet, work together, and present their work live on stage. Global Express, now, in its 24th year, help us to recognize our common humanity while celebrating our differences. The Express, part dramatic reading, part solo-turn, part poetry...
On Clowns, Magic, Dirt, Decay: Artist Talk with Alex Tatarsky
A “hilarious, finely tuned absurdist” (Theatre Jones), Alex Tatarsky makes performances in the uncomfortable in-between zone of comedy, dance-theater, performance art, and deluded rant--sometimes with songs. Tatarsky experienced fleeting fame as Andy Kaufman’s daughter and used to perform as a mound of dirt. They are currently touring their falling apart bildungsroman about wanting to die, Sad Boys in Harpy Land, and their compost clown lecture-performance Dirt Trip. MATERIAL, an improvisational...
Ten-Minute Play Festival
By Undergraduate Playwrights
The University of Iowa Department of Theatre Arts is proud to present the 29th annual Ten-Minute Play Festival. Join us for the premiere of our undergraduate playwrights' new works, Artistic Directed by Tony Meneses!
The Ten-Minute Play Festival features 10-minute productions that are written, acted, designed, and run by undergraduate students. Support these students in a night that will have something for everyone.
Please be advised flashing and strobe lights will be...
Ten-Minute Play Festival
By Undergraduate Playwrights
The University of Iowa Department of Theatre Arts is proud to present the 29th annual Ten-Minute Play Festival. Join us for the premiere of our undergraduate playwrights' new works, Artistic Directed by Tony Meneses!
The Ten-Minute Play Festival features 10-minute productions that are written, acted, designed, and run by undergraduate students. Support these students in a night that will have something for everyone.
Please be advised flashing and strobe lights will be...
Ten-Minute Play Festival
By Undergraduate Playwrights
The University of Iowa Department of Theatre Arts is proud to present the 29th annual Ten-Minute Play Festival. Join us for the premiere of our undergraduate playwrights' new works, Artistic Directed by Tony Meneses!
The Ten-Minute Play Festival features 10-minute productions that are written, acted, designed, and run by undergraduate students. Support these students in a night that will have something for everyone.
Please be advised flashing and strobe lights will be...
Ten-Minute Play Festival
By Undergraduate Playwrights
The University of Iowa Department of Theatre Arts is proud to present the 29th annual Ten-Minute Play Festival. Join us for the premiere of our undergraduate playwrights' new works, Artistic Directed by Tony Meneses!
The Ten-Minute Play Festival features 10-minute productions that are written, acted, designed, and run by undergraduate students. Support these students in a night that will have something for everyone.
Please be advised flashing and strobe lights will be...
Former Poster Child
Former Poster Child by Grace Nelson is a theatrically staged performance with accessibility at its core. Directed by Jason Vernon, as his Social Justice and the Performing Arts capstone project, this new work is an intentional and innovative experiment of form, reimagining the traditional theatre model and centering disabled stories for disabled audiences.
In this humorous “one woman” show, we invoke the lifecycle and investigate what it means to be human. Consider this play a "living memoir"...