Department of Theatre and Film

Past Seasons

2022/2023 Season

• Hamlet by William Shakespeare (November)
• World AIDS Day Screening, "Black Is, Balck Ain't" (December)
• 2023 Festival of New Student Work (February)
• Blood at the Root by Dominique Morisseau (April)

2021/2022 Season

• Year of the Living Dead (film, October)
• Festival of New Student Work (November)
• Elkshire (February)
• 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (April)
• Student Filmmakers Showcase (April)

2020/2021 Season (Virtual – Due to Pandemic)

• World AIDS Day Screening
  “HIV in the Rustbelt” (December)
• 20K Leagues Under the Sea (December)

2019/2020 Season

• 24 Hour Play Festival (September)
• The Jungle (November)
• The Flick (February)
• Mr. Burns: A Post-Electric Play* (April)
• Student Filmmakers Showcase* (April)

*This event was not presented publicly due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

2018/2019 Season

• 24 Hour Play Festival (September)
• All Quiet on the Western Front (November)
• The Pillowman (February)
• Into the Woods (April)
• Student Filmmakers Showcase (April)

2017/2018 Season

• 24 Hour Play Festival (September)
• Arcadia (November)
• Proof (February)
• The Tempest (April)
• Student Filmmakers Showcase (April)

2016/2017 Season

• Fridays on Film Series (Sept.-Apr)
  • Marx Brothers’ Duck Soup
  • La Grande Illusion
  • Nosferatu
  • Silent Shorts: Chaplin & More
  • Hiroshima Mon Amour
  • The General
  • Experimental Shorts
• The Imaginary Invalid (October)
• The Importance of Being Earnest (November)
• 24 Hour Play Festival (January)
• The King and the Clown (February)
• The Internationalist (March/April)
• Student Filmmakers Showcase (April)

2015/2016 Season

• First Friday on Film Series (Sept.-Apr)
  • The Lady Vanishes
  • Seven Samurai
  • His Girl Friday
  • Breathless
  • Stagecoach
• Henry V (October)
• The Laramie Project (November)
• 24 Hour Plays (January)
• No Exit (February)
• Student Filmmakers Showcase (March)
• Little Shop of Horrors (April)

2014/2015 Season

• 50 Years of WOW! (Theatre and Film Department Anniversary – September)
• Film Screening – Brazil (September)
• The Adding Machine (October)
• Miss Julie (November/December)
• Film Screening – Some Like It Hot (January)
• Twelfth Night (February/March)
• Aspiring Filmmakers Showcase (March)
• The Immortals (April)

2013/2014 Season

• Guest Filmmakers – Film Screenings/Workshops
  • Laura Colella
  • Jo Dery
• Fox Hunt/Strip Tease (October)
• Out to Lunch (November)
• Cabaret (April)
• Student Filmmakers Showcase (April)

2012/2013 Season

• Orpheus (October) 
• FILM Fridays (Sept.-April)
  • Orpheus
  • Censorship Symposium
  • Honor in the Valley of Tears
  • Do the Right Thing
• Metamorphoses (November)
• Faculty Film Screenings (January-February)
  • Charlene Gilbert
  • Tammy Kinsey
  • Holly Hey
• Three Sisters (February)
• Film/Video Showcase (March)
• Ghost Light (April)

2011/2012 – LOVE GONE WRONG

• A Midsummer Night’s Dream (November)
• King Oedipus (February)
• In the Next Room (The Vibrator Play) (April)
• Student Filmmakers Showcase (April)

2011/2012 – LOVE GONE WRONG

• FILM Fridays (Sept. – Feb.)
  • Young at Heart
  • Victor, Victoria
  • Tommy
  • Cannibal The Musical
  • The Jazz Singer
  • Truth or Dare
  • Dave Chapelle’s Block Party
  • Pink Floyd’s The Wall
• A Midsummer Night’s Dream (November)
• 24 Hour Plays (November)
• King Oedipus (February)
• New Writers’ Festival (March)
• Film/Video Showcase (March)
• In the Next Room (The Vibrator Play) (April)
• Senior Film Showcase (April)

2010/2011 – IMPRISONMENT

• FILM Fridays (Sept. – April)
  • First Blood
  • Soffel
  • Poison
  • American Me
  • Slam
  • Death (The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr.)
  • The 25^th Hour
  • Rabbit-Proof Fence
  • Carandiru
  • Born into Brothels
  • El Machinista (The Machinist)
  • Troop 1500
  • Voices of Witness Africa
  • Prison Town USA

• 12 Angry Jurors (October)
• Labyrinth (November)
• 24 Hour Plays (December)
• The Hothouse (February)
• UTFV Showcase (March)
• The House of Bernarda Alba (April)
• Senior Film Student Showcases (April)

2009/2010 – STYLE & SUBSTANCE

• Documentary Film Series Screenings (August-November)
  • The Corporation
  • Why We Fight
  • Sicko
  • Yes Men Fix the World
  • University, Inc.
• The Doctor in Spite of Himself (October)
• Machinal (November)
• 24 Hour Plays (December)
• Bob Fosse Film Retrospective Screenings (January-April)
  • Sweet Charity
  • Cabaret
  • Lenny
  • All That Jazz
  • Star 80
• Bald Soprano/The Lesson (February)
• Creation/Doomsday: Selections from the Chester Mystery Cycle (April)
• Theatre and Film Alumni Weekend
• Student Filmmakers Showcase (April)

2008/2009 – OBSESSION

• Film Faculty Screening (August)
• NextFrame Film Festival (September)
• Divided We Fall: Americans in the Aftermath (October)
• Coronado (October)
• Su Friedrich Screening (November)
• Arabian Nights (November)
• 24 Hour Plays (December)
• Won Kar-Wai Film Series
  • Chung King Express
  • Fallen Angels
• Crumbs from the Table of Joy (February)
• Akira Kurosawa’s Throne of Blood
  (film, April)
• Macbeth (April)
• Senior Film Student Showcases (April)
• F/V Showcase (April)

2007/2008 – VOICES FROM THE MARGINS

• Documentary Films by UT’s Charlene Gilbert (August)
  • Homecoming
  • Children Will Listen
• The Age of Impeachment I: The Crook – Guest Tibor Varszegi
• NextFrame Film Festival (September)
• Top Dog/Underdog (October)
• The Chance of Clairvoyance
  Etudes: A Workshop Performance – Guest Tibor Varszegi
• My Blackbird has Flown Away (November)
• Top Girls (November)
• 24 Hour Plays (December)
• Ubu Rex (February)
• Bat Boy: The Musical (April)
• Mike Majoros Film Screening and Workshop (March)
  • Rolling
  • Unfinished Symphony: Democracy and Dissent
• Censorship Symposium (March)
• Senior Film/Video Showcases (April)
• Student Filmmakers Showcase (April)

2006/2007 – FACADES AND MASQUERADES

• Hedwig and the Angry Inch (film August)
• Phantom of the Opera (film September)
• Velvet Goldmine (film September)
• Romeo and Juliet (October)
• The Death of Little Ibsen (October)
• Persona (film November)
• Recovery (November)
• 24 Hour Plays (December)
• Yellow Submarine (film December)
• Cinema Baby Steps (January)
• Andy Warhol Film Series
  • Chelsea Girls (February-March)
  • Outer and Inner Space (March)
• The Misanthrope (February)
• Censorship Symposium (April)
• Senior Film/Video Showcases (April)
• Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love (April)
• Annual Film/Video Student Showcase (April)

2005/2006 CONFLICT, COURAGE & COMPASSION

• Sub-Saharan Film Festival (Aug.- Dec.)
  • The Price of Aid
  • Adanggaman
  • Waiting for Happiness
  • Moolade
  • Making of Moolade
• Madcat Women’s International Film Festival Tour (September.)
• Guest Artist Visits (Sept. – Dec.)
  • Tibor Varszegi
  • Szablolcs Szilágy
  • David Diamond
  • Peter Abraham
  • Eric Pfeffinger
• Women of Lockerbie (October)
• Homebody/Kabul (November)
• 1^st Annual 24-Hour Playwriting Festival (December)
• Margaret Mead Film & Video Traveling Festival (January)
• Annie Ruth (January/February)
• Antigone (February)
• Jewelry Store (March)
• 2006 Graduating Film/Video Senior Show Series (April)
• The Dragon (April)
• Annual Student Film/Video Showcase
• Action (April)

2004/2005 A GLOBAL CELEBRATION OF SHAKESPEARE

• Staged Readings: (September)
  • Still Life
  • Horatio: An Inquisition
• Contemporary Czech Scenography (exhibit September-October)
• Metaphor & Irony at Work: A Symposium on Czech Theatre Design (October)
• Richard III (November)
• The African Company Presents Richard III (January)
• Desdemona: A Play About a Handkerchief (February)
• Fortinbras (February)
• The Boys from Syracuse (April)
• Love’s Fire: Seven New Plays Inspired by Seven Shakespearean Sonnets (March)
• The 2005 Censorship Symposium (April)
• The Annual Student Film/Video Show (April)

2003/2004 A GLOBAL CELEBRATION OF THE ARTS

• Once on this Island (October)
• Arab Film Festival (September-October)
  • Cairo Station
  • Insan
  • A Door in the Sky
  • The Broken Wings
  • The Dupes
• Mercury Seven with Signs Following (Oct.)
• Behind the Mask: An Evening with Paul Lawrence Dunbar (Written/performed by guest artist Ted Lange Oct.-Nov.)
• The Little Clay Cart (December)
• Dancing Wheels (residency – January)
• MadCat Women’s International Film Festival Tour (January)
• Central American Film Week (February)
  Guest artist Roberto King, films/videos from Panama, UT student and faculty films produced in Costa Rica)
• Polaroid Stories (February)
• Faculty Media Show (March)
• Little Eyolf (March)
• Fuddy Meers (April)
• International Censored Films and The 2004 Censorship Symposium (April)
• The Macbeth Project – International Guest Artist Jonas Jurasas (April)
• 12^th Annual Student Film/Video Show

2002/2003 AMERICAN VOICES

• This is Our Youth (October)
• Time Flies (November)
• Funnyhouse of a Negro (Feb./March)
• Fifth of July (April)

2001/2002 VIOLENCE IN CIVIL SOCIETY

• Like Totally Weird (October)
• Kolpert (Nov./Dec.)
• Saved (Feb./Mar)
• Hot ‘n Throbbing (April)