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Small Mouth Sounds by Bess Wohl
Directed by Gregg W. Brevoort

Filled with awkward and insightful humor, this show takes the audience on a unique journey of human discovery where strangers confront their internal demons through profound and absurd vows of silence.

Mother Courage and Her Children by Bertolt Brecht (English version by Eric Bentley)
Directed by Shinshin Yuder Tsai

A war-torn wasteland is the scene of Brecht’s Epic Theatre masterpiece, a powerful anti-war drama which follows the misfortunes and triumphs of Anna Fierling, nicknamed “Mother Courage,” and her misplaced children. As they traverse the apocalyptic ruins of their world, their survival is dependent on the very cataclysm that destroyed their previous life. It’s an edgy, raw, transformative journey that will shake your senses.

Twelfth Night, or What You Will by William Shakespeare
Directed by Tamiko S. Washington

This hilarious rom/com features mistaken identities and a love triangle for a cross-dressing, ship-wreck surviving, poetry-loving girl. Filled with music, drink, dance, riotous antics and self-indulgences, this is a masterful show you don't want to miss!

Student-Directed One-Acts

The Storm in the Barn adapted by Eric Coble, from the graphic novel by Matt Phelan
Directed by Jeremie Loncka

It is 1937, the height of the infamous Dust Bowl era, and a young boy named Jack Clark, who lives a life of daily bullying, familial poverty struggles and challenges of youth, finds solace and hope when he encounters a fantastical and mystical presence in a barn that changes his and his family’s life forever. Based on the graphic novel The Storm in the Barn by Matt Phelan.

Metamorphoses by Mary Zimmerman
Directed by Shinshin Tsai

Metamorphoses is based on Ovid's fifteen-volume work of transformation myths. Positioned in and around a large pool on the stage, the characters enact Zimmerman's adaptations of Ovid's tales, juxtaposing the ancient and the contemporary in both language and image.

Our Town by Thornton Wilder
Directed by Michael Nehring

This metatheatrical three-act play by American playwright Thornton Wilder won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The play tells the story of the fictional American small town of Grover's Corners between 1901 and 1913 through the everyday lives of its citizens.

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Stephen Simons
Directed by Sokratis Alafouzos

The play tells the story of Christopher Boone, a mathematically gifted boy of 15 years, whose investigations of ordinary life, which is difficult for him to understand, lead him to uncover a variety of family secrets and eventually struggle against the personal, developmental limitations on his independence.

Student-Directed One-Act: The Yellow Boat by David Saar
Directed by Kennedy Kemmerer

This glorious affirmation of a child’s life, and the strength and courage of all children, is a dramatization of the true story of David and Sonja Saar’s son, Benjamin, who was born with congenital hemophilia and died in 1987 at the age of eight of AIDS-related complications. A uniquely gifted visual artist, Benjamin’s buoyant imagination transformed his physical and emotional pain into a blaze of colors and shapes in his fanciful drawings and paintings. 

Freaky Friday
Book by Bridget Carpenter
Music by Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey
Directed by Susanna Vaughan

Single mother Tess Coleman and her teenage daughter Anna couldn't be more different, and it is driving them both insane. After receiving cryptic fortunes at a Chinese restaurant, the two wake up the next day to discover that they have somehow switched bodies. Unable to switch back, they are forced to masquerade as one another until a solution can be found. In the process, they develop a new sense of respect and understanding for one another.

Tartuffe

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Native Gardens 

Horse Girls

Zanna Don’t! A Musical Fairytale 

In the Next Room or the vibrator play (rescheduled due to COVID-19 pandemic)

The Wolves

9 to 5 The Musical

Measure for Measure

Lysistrata

Student One-Acts (performed in a virtual format due to COVID-19 pandemic)