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Diana Small ’09, a double major in English and theater arts, wrote a bilingual play as a student, which the theatre arts department produced and directed. Three of her plays premiered at ���˶��� after she graduated. She joined Lit Moon Theatre Company as an actor and assistant director, directed two plays for ���˶���’s “Play Beckett” festival, and wrote and performed original music for “33 Swoons.” She also led the girl-pop band Sheanderthal and premiered the concept-rock album “Water Will Rise” with two ���˶��� alumni. An MFA candidate in playwriting and poetry at the Michener Center for Writers at UT Austin, she premiered a two-woman show, “Mad & A Goat,” in the Austin Frontera Festival in January 2014. “The theater department's emphasis on multi-disciplinary art-making, global collaboration, social justice, and sincere and critical spiritual inquiry has made a permanent impression on my character as an artist and a Christian,” she says.