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Join us on the UNI campus for the 2025 Iowa Thespian Festival, open to all theatre students and teachers in the state of Iowa. The festival will be held Friday, November 14 and Saturday, November 15 on the University of Northern Iowa campus in Cedar Falls, IA.

At Iowa Thespian Festival, you will: 

• Grow your knowledge with interactive workshops on every aspect of theatre — onstage, backstage, and everywhere in-between. 
• Experience performances of all kinds: staged readings and improv, student-written works, one-acts and full-scale main stage productions. 
• Showcase your talents through college auditions, Tech Challenge and the Thespy Awards. 
• Build your theatre family — you’ll meet hundreds of Thespians and theatre educators and form lifelong friendships. 

The Iowa Thespian Festival is where you see, think, and do theatre for two incredible days!

This event is sponsored in part  by Cedar Falls Tourism.