If these Winship walls could talk.

Jenny Connell’s (MFA ‘09) Chrysalis, developed as part of the UT Department of Theatre and Dance’s “Once Upon a Weekend,” was performed along with fellow MFA Playwright Andrew Hinderaker’s Dry in The Gift Theatre’s “Take Ten” showcase, a celebration of the Chicago’s theatre’s ten-year anniversary. Heralded by The Chicago Sun-Times as “poignant and poetic”, Chrysalis follows five individuals’ memories in the form of paper planes.

Connell’s short piece, Body Language, was performed in February 2011 as part of the Annual Ars Nova Play Group Showcase The Urban Dictionary Plays. In March 2012, There Be Dragons, with development support from Austin’s ScriptWorks, opens with Shrewd Productions at Austin’s Blue Theater. Fatakra, the short film written by Connell and writer, director and fellow alumnus Soham Mehta (BA ’00) was screened last year at SXSW and continues to screen worldwide. If Fatakra comes to your city, be sure to check it out!