The School of Performing Arts invites you to join in celebrating an exciting new voice in American theatre and to mark your calendars for a moving evening of storytelling this fall as it presents a reading of “Dinnertime: A Play in Seven Courses” by Anna Halza at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 17-19 in the Welsbacher Black Box Theatre at the Hughes Metropolitan Sports Complex as the inaugural production of the 2026-27 performing arts season.
Halza, writer, actor and theatremaker in Norman, Oklahoma — who won the 2026 Bela Kiralyfalvi National Student Playwriting Competition for “Dinnertime: A Play in Seven Courses” — is a fourth-year student at Oklahoma University and will graduate in spring 2027 with a BFA in drama and a BA in professional writing. She is the co-writer of two devised works with Co.Arts Theater Co., titled “How To Smoke Three Cigarettes At Once” and “This City Will Eat You Alive,” the latter of which she is also starring in.