UCU Theatre

UCU Theatre UCU Theatre
Union Commonwealth University
(Formerly Union College)
Barbourville, KY 40906

Union Commonwealth University’s Theatre Program is seeking a Set Designer/Builder for our 2026–2027 season!Productions:T...
06/18/2026

Union Commonwealth University’s Theatre Program is seeking a Set Designer/Builder for our 2026–2027 season!

Productions:
The Apiary — October 22–24
String — April 22–24

The Set Designer/Builder will receive a moderate stipend per show.

This position will have support from students in the theatre program and does not require regular hours. The designer/builder may work during the day, evenings, or weekends—whatever schedule works best to get the set completed.

Interested applicants should send a resume by July 30 to Jayme Kilburn at [email protected]. Please feel free to reach out with questions or to express interest!

06/14/2026

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Tonight is the first session of UNSCRIPTED: Union Playwriting Lab! ✍️🎭Join us tonight, Monday, June 1, from 6:00–8:00 PM...
06/01/2026

Tonight is the first session of UNSCRIPTED: Union Playwriting Lab! ✍️🎭

Join us tonight, Monday, June 1, from 6:00–8:00 PM in Rector Little Theatre, for the first gathering of our new monthly writers’ group, open to both campus and community members.

For this first session, we’ll talk together about how we want to approach the group, what our goals are, and what future projects we might want to explore. We’ll also make space for writing, sharing ideas, and building creative community.

In future sessions, writers are invited to bring scripts, scenes, stories, or works in progress. We’ll read together, offer supportive feedback, and help each other keep writing. No polished draft required — just bring your ideas and a willingness to create.

This is a low-commitment, welcoming space to show up, write, share, and connect.

📍 Rector Little Theatre
🗓 Tonight: Monday, June 1
⏰ 6:00–8:00 PM

Come write with us!

05/29/2026

The deadline to apply is Sunday. (Link in comments)

Calling all playwrights, storytellers, and creative folks! ✍️🎭Join us for UNSCRIPTED: Union Playwriting Lab, a monthly w...
05/27/2026

Calling all playwrights, storytellers, and creative folks! ✍️🎭

Join us for UNSCRIPTED: Union Playwriting Lab, a monthly writers’ group open to campus and community members.

✨ Our first gathering will be Monday, June 1 from 6:00–8:00 PM in Rector Little Theatre! ✨

Each month, writers are invited to bring scripts or scenes in progress. We’ll read them together, offer supportive feedback, and help each other keep writing. No polished draft required — just bring what you’re working on!

And if no one has pages to share? No problem. We’ll do some fun writing exercises to get the creative juices flowing.

This is a low-commitment, welcoming space to show up, write, share, and build creative community.

📍 Rector Little Theatre
🗓 First Monday of each month
⏰ 6:00–8:00 PM

Come write with us!

We’re excited to be representing THEATRE today at Union Commonwealth University orientation! We can’t wait to meet our i...
05/16/2026

We’re excited to be representing THEATRE today at Union Commonwealth University orientation! We can’t wait to meet our incoming freshman!

🎭 UNSCRIPTED: Union Playwriting Lab 🎭✨ FIRST SESSION: JUNE 1 ✨🕕 6:00–8:00 PM📍 Rector Little TheatreGot a play idea sitti...
05/15/2026

🎭 UNSCRIPTED: Union Playwriting Lab 🎭

✨ FIRST SESSION: JUNE 1 ✨
🕕 6:00–8:00 PM
📍 Rector Little Theatre

Got a play idea sitting in a notebook? Half-finished scenes on your laptop? A character who won’t leave you alone? Bring it to UNSCRIPTED.

UNSCRIPTED is a monthly playwriting group focused on creativity, community, and actually getting words on the page. Writers are encouraged to bring scripts in progress to share, hear aloud, and receive supportive feedback in an informal and welcoming atmosphere.

Each month, we’ll:
✨ Read and discuss new works in progress
✨ Participate in playwriting exercises and prompts
✨ Build accountability and creative momentum
✨ Support one another as writers and storytellers

Whether you’re an experienced playwright, curious beginner, student, or community member, you are welcome here.

Open to both the campus and local community. Just show up and write with us!

🎭 UCU THEATRE ANNOUNCES ITS 2026–2027 SEASON 🎭Humanity on the BrinkWhat happens when the world begins to fracture? When ...
05/14/2026

🎭 UCU THEATRE ANNOUNCES ITS 2026–2027 SEASON 🎭
Humanity on the Brink

What happens when the world begins to fracture? When systems collapse, certainty disappears, and survival asks us to become something new?

This season, UCU Theatre invites audiences into two thrilling and deeply human stories that explore the edge between destruction and hope, chaos and connection. Through dark comedy, myth, music, and imagination, Humanity on the Brink examines what remains when the world changes around us—and what it means to still choose care, love, and each other.

🖤🐝 THE APIARY by Kate Douglas
📅 October 22–24, 2026

It’s 2044. Bees are extinct—except inside synthetic apiaries where perpetual spring keeps them alive. But something has changed. The bees have developed a terrifying new hunger: flesh.

As the hive evolves beyond human control, lab assistants Zora and Pilar are forced to confront impossible ethical questions about survival, responsibility, and what humanity owes to the creatures it has manipulated. Darkly funny, unsettling, and wildly original, The Apiary is a razor-sharp theatrical experience that asks what happens when nature fights back.

✨🧵 STRING by Sarah Hammond and Adam Gwon
📅 April 22–24, 2027

Banished from Mount Olympus after angering Zeus, the Greek Fates are stripped of their powers and exiled to a modern office building in the mortal world. But even among cubicles, coffee breaks, and city loneliness, destiny still has a way of weaving people together.

With a soaring contemporary score and a story filled with humor, heart, and hope, String is an uplifting musical fable about fate, love, and the fragile threads that connect us all. In a world on the verge of unraveling, it reminds us that humanity may still be worth saving.

🎟 More information about auditions, tickets, and special events coming soon.
📍 All performances take place at Rector Little Theatre.

Join us for a season that imagines the future, confronts the present, and asks one essential question: When everything is on the brink…what makes us human?

Want to help support our season? Consider making a donation!
https://unioncollege.givingfuel.com/theatre-donations

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