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Dawn Youngs

Dawn Youngs is a freelance theater artist and graphic designer based in Austin, TX.  She holds a BA in Performing Arts from American University and an MFA in Acting from the University of Missouri in Kansas City. 

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Images of renewal

Art from the Ashes: Bastrop exhibit salvages and restores spirit after devastating wildfires

By Dawn Youngs

04.28.12 | 9:21 am

In September of 2011, destructive wildfires raged through Bastrop County, TX. The blaze devastated the region’s signature Loblolly Pine population and further compromised the habitat of the endangered Houston ...


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Brave New Theater

Phineas and Messenger offer lessons on the benefits (and challenges) of collaborative production

By Dawn Youngs

03.05.12 | 1:30 pm

The Blue Theater is one of those magical places reserved for the initiated. Tucked back among warehouses on Springdale Road, the surprisingly expansive black-box theater has no bright sign on ...


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on stage

Breaking String Theater's New Russian Drama Festival: Theater-makers leading cultural revolution in Russia, visiting Austin

By Dawn Youngs

03.03.12 | 2:00 pm

March 9 through 11 marks the 2nd annual New Russian Drama Festival (NRDFest) at the Off Center. Hosted by The Breaking String Theater with support from the Center for International ...


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FronteraFest

FronteraFest's Wild Card Night serves up a delightfully ecclectic mix

By Dawn Youngs

02.18.12 | 4:29 pm

FronteraFest's Short Fringe, a product of Hyde Park Theater and Scriptworks, runs a bit like a sports tournament. Each night there is a winner, and each week the five ...


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Wildfire Benefit

ART from the ashes: Artists band together for exhibition that reclaims beauty from the devastating Bastrop fires

By Dawn Youngs

02.15.12 | 12:19 pm

Last summer, as wildfires flared up across Central Texas, I thought about what might happen if the flames spread my way. Where would I go if my home was no ...


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Theater Scene

Why the Rude Mechs thrive in Austin's risk-taking new work community

By Dawn Youngs

02.07.12 | 1:30 pm

This week, Rude Mechs is showing their newest exploration, CL1000P (working title), to sold out houses of Austin theatergoers who will then have a hand in the play's development ...


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At the theater

Fall in love: Tom Stoppard's Arcadia by Austin Shakespeare

By Dawn Youngs

02.04.12 | 8:00 pm

For the sake of full disclosure, I think it is important that I tell you of my first experience with Tom Stoppard’s enigmatic and beautiful work.  I saw the ...


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FronteraFest

Foursquare's on-stage game of love and loss shines with simple elegance and raw emotion

By Dawn Youngs

02.03.12 | 12:10 pm

Manuel Zarate’s production of Foursquare, being performed at the Blue Theatre during the Frontera Festival Long Fringe this season, is a finely crafted work of theater.  Do you remember ...


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Austin Arts Go Global

The Russian Invasion: Philip Arnoult initiates a creative cultural exchange between young artists and American theater

By Dawn Youngs

02.02.12 | 12:00 pm

It’s not every day that you have an opportunity to sit down with one of the major forces in American theater. Last Friday, however, I had the honor to ...


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Frontera Fest

Jack & Coconuts, a tasty concoction served up just right

By Dawn Youngs

01.31.12 | 10:15 am

One of the offerings in the Frontera Festival’s  Long Fringe this season is Corey Kwoka’s new play Jack & Coconuts, directed by Charlie Diblasi. This madcap romp around paradise ...


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ATX to the world

Local performance group The Penfold Theater Company set to hit the Edinburgh Fringe Festival

By Dawn Youngs

01.26.12 | 10:40 am

The Penfold Theater Company, a young and ambitious theater serving North Austin and Round Rock, has been making waves in the Austin community since its formation in 2008. They recently ...


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Behind the Canvas

The purpose of one's art: Will Klemm's Over the Years at the Wally Workman Gallery

By Dawn Youngs

01.25.12 | 4:38 pm

Currently showing at the Wally Workman Gallery is an exhibit featuring the work of artist Will Klemm as it spans his 20-year career with the gallery. Originally an Austin transplant ...


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Robert Dubac crosses a lot of lines in his dynamic new one man show.

Free Range Thinking: Straight talker Robert Dubac asks his audience to wipe its mental slate clean in one-man act

By Dawn Youngs

01.12.12 | 1:12 pm

In Free Range Thinking, visiting the Long Center this weekend, Robert Dubac is a straight talker who speaks in circles. He is an actor, a linguist, a magician and a ...


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theater in review

The Children's Hour: Different Stages presents a faithful mounting of an American classic

By Dawn Youngs

01.11.12 | 12:30 pm

The Children’s Hour by Lillian Hellman is an American stage classic. It was first produced on Broadway in 1934, and was so well received by critics and the public ...


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Dionysium debate

Does God Play Dice? Debate it.

By Dawn Youngs

01.04.12 | 2:00 pm

In quantum mechanics, there is a principle of uncertainty which places a fundamental limit on the accuracy with which some combinations of physical properties of a particle can be simultaneously ...


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still cheery

Put a cap on the season with the Zach Theater's delightful and sardonic take on David Sedaris' Santaland Diaries

By Dawn Youngs

01.01.12 | 4:05 pm

Christmas may have come and gone, but The Santaland Diaries, complied and directed by Zach Theater producing artsitic director Dave Steakley, is still with us through Jan. 8. An Austin ...


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taking the stage

The Hidden Theater: A secretive Austin gem that's going global

By Dawn Youngs

12.31.11 | 1:00 pm

As Master of Company and Theatrical Deviser Beth Burns put it, “The Hidden Room Theater is a Theatrical Curiosity Shop specializing in Original Practices classics, technologically forward-thinking works, intriguing new ...


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