Kirk Lynn, Department of Theatre and Dance lecturer of playwriting and directing, has been honored as one of the 2011 United States Artists Fellows. This prestigious award grants 50 of America’s finest artists with individual fellowships of $50,000. Past winners include Austin-based choreographer Deborah Hay, Anne Bogart (artistic director, The SITI Company), Ping Chong, Bill Rauch (co-founder, Cornerstone Theater Company), and award-winning actress and playwright Anna Deavere Smith.

Faculty Spotlight: Playwriting with Steven Dietz, Kirk Lynn and Suzan Zeder

The UT Austin M.F.A. in Playwriting curriculum emphasizes the generation and revision of new work and progressive collaborations with fellow writers and artists. Students of this demanding program need look no further than to their own faculty for inspiration and prime of examples of this charge.