The Laboratory of Playmaking: Artists from different realms join forces to concoct new strains of performance in UT's New

The Austin Chronicle: "'New' isn't just another adjective when it comes to the David Mark Cohen New Works Festival. This biennial event, organized by the UT Department of Theatre & Dance and named for the influential playwright, critic, and educator who headed the school's playwriting program from 1990 until his death in 1997, is intently focused on the new on every level: new works, certainly, but new kinds of work – free experimentation with style and narrative and mash-ups of disciplines like theatre and sculpture or film and dance – and new ways of working, with those traditional authorial voices, playwrights, and directors, mixing it up more collaboratively with designers and performers and composers in creating a work's identity."