We invite prospective students to review the last three years of projects and the diverse array of writers, directors, and designers who have all contributed to our curriculum:
2020-21
Group 50 – Fourth-Year Productions:
Blue Door
By Tanya Barfield
Directed by taneisha duggan
Scenic Slide/Image Coordinator: Scott Tedmon-Jones
Costume Coordinator: Sarita Fellows
Sound Designer/Arranger/Composer: chad browne-springer
A Doll’s House, Part 2
By Lucas Hnath
Directed by Justin Emeka
Scenic Designer/Sound Designer: Justin Emeka
Costume Coordinator: Sarita Fellows
The Effect
By Lucy Prebble
Directed by Jenny Lord
Scenic/Props Consultant: Scott Tedmon-Jones
Costume Coordinator: Grier Coleman
Sound Designer: Fabian Obispo
Far Away
By Caryl Churchill
Directed by Tyne Rafaeli
Scenic Slide/Image Coordinator: Scott Tedmon-Jones
Costume Coordinator: Grier Coleman
Sound Designer: chad browne-springer
Tango Palace
By María Irene Fornés
Directed by Orlando Pabotoy
Scenic Image/Slide Coordinator: Scott Tedmon-Jones
Costume Coordinator: Grier Coleman
Sound Coordinator: Fabian Obispo
Too Heavy for Your Pocket
By Jiréh Breon Holder
Directed by Taylor Reynolds
Scenic Coordinator: Scott Tedmon-Jones
Costume Coordinator: Sarita Fellows
Sound Coordinator: Fabian Obispo
Cardboard Piano
By Hansol Jung
Directed by Jade King Carroll
Scenic Design: Brittany Vasta
Costume Design: Shane Ballard
Sound Design: Twi McCallum
Life is a Dream
By Pedro Calderón de la Barca
Translated and adapted by Nilo Cruz
Directed by Shaun Patrick Tubbs
Production Design: Shaun Patrick Tubbs
Costume Design: Grier Coleman
Original Music and Sound Design: Quentin Chiappetta
Plano
By Will Arbery
Directed by Danya Taymor
Production Design: Isabella Byrd
Costume Design: Sarafina Bush
Sound Design: Lee Kinney
Thom Pain (based on nothing)
By Will Eno
Directed by Mark Brokaw
Costume Design: Audrey Nauman
Sound Design: Fabian Obispo
Group 51 – Third-Year Productions:
Three Sisters / Smashed to Smithereens
By Anton Chekhov
Directed by Richard Feldman
Scenic Design: Christopher Barreca
Lighting Design: Donald Holder
The African Company Presents Richard III
By Carlyle Brown
Directed by Jeffrey Page
Costume Coordinator: Sarita Fellows
Everything is Wonderful
By Chelsea Marcantel
Directed by Matt Dickson
Sound Coordinator: Fabian Obispo
Costume Coordinator: Grier Coleman
References to Salvador Dalí Make Me Hot
By José Rivera
Directed by Elena Araoz
Costume Coordinator: Christopher Vergara
All’s Well That Ends Well
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Arin Arbus
Scenic Designer: Brittany Vasta
Costume Coordinator: Sarita Fellows
Lighting Designer: Carolyn Wong
Sound Designer: Fabian Obispo
Cymbeline
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Dustin Wills
Scenic Designer: Brittany Vasta
Costume Coordinator: Sarita Fellows
Lighting Designer: Carolyn Wong
Sound Designer: Fabian Obispo
Student-Initiated Projects:
Arlington
By Enda Walsh
Directed by Miles Jacoby
The Line
By Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen
Directed by Jessica Blank
Memorial
By Arianna Gayle Stucki and Adam Ashraf Elsayigh
Directed by Arianna Gayle Stucki
The Vanity Project
By Britnie Narcisse
Directed by Britnie Narcisse
Group 52 – Second-Year Rehearsal Projects:
Hamlet
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Wayne T. Carr
The Winter’s Tale
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Lee Sunday Evans
The Seagull
By Anton Chekhov
Directed by Rebecca Guy
Group 53 – First-Year Rehearsal Projects:
Henry IV, Part One
By William Shakespeare
Under the guidance of Richard Feldman, Jenny Lord, and Dawn Saito
Blue Window
By Craig Lucas
Directed by Jenny Lord
Daphne’s Dive
By Quiara Alegría Hudes
Directed by Lisa Benavides-Nelson
Durango
By Julia Cho
Directed by Jimonn Cole
Playwrights Festival:
cataract
By Dominic Finocchiaro
Directed by Margot Bordelon
The Experience
By Jahna Ferron-Smith
Directed by Kimille Howard
In Place
By Alex Riad
Directed by Padraic Lillis
The Oracle
By Emily Feldman
Directed by Will Davis
2019-20
Group 49 – Fourth-Year Productions:
Major Barbara
By George Bernard Shaw
Directed by Janet Zarish
Set Design: Blake Palmer
Costume Design: Olivera Gajic
Lighting Design: Seth Reiser
Sound Design: Eric Shimelonis
Bright Half Life
By Tanya Barfield
Directed by Rebecca Guy
Set Design: Tim Mackabee
Costume Design: Anne Kennedy
Lighting Design: Betsy Adams
Sound Design: Fabian Obispo
Paradise Blue
By Dominique Morisseau
Directed by Brandon J. Dirden
Set Design: Michael Carnahan
Costume Design: Sarita Fellows
Lighting Design: Driscoll Otto
Sound Design: Fabian Obispo
Crumbs from the Table of Joy
By Lynn Nottage
Directed by Melissa Maxwell
Choreographed by Darryl Quinton
Set Design: Andrew Boyce
Costume Design: Barbara Bell
Lighting Design: Dan Scully
Sound Design: Fabian Obispo
The Flick
By Annie Baker
Directed by Zi Alikhan
Set Design: Andrew Boyce
Costume Design: Johanna Pan
Lighting Design: Dan Scully
Sound Design: Fabian Obispo
Black Snow
By Keith Reddin
Directed by Dustin Wills
Set Design: Andrew Boyce
Costume Design: Seth Bodie
Lighting Design: Dan Scully
Sound Design: Fabian Obispo
Group 50 – Third-Year Productions:
In The Blood
By Suzan-Lori Parks
Directed by Shaun Patrick Tubbs
Set Design: Reid Thompson
Costume Design: Grier Coleman
Lighting Design: Carolyn Wong
Sound Design: Quentin Chiappetta
Fucking A
By Suzan-Lori Parks
Directed by Erin Ortman
Set Design: Reid Thompson
Costume Design: Grier Coleman
Lighting Design: Carolyn Wong
Sound Design: Quentin Chiappetta
Antony and Cleopatra
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Tim Hoare
Set Design: Fufan Zhang
Costume Design: Katherine Roth
Lighting Design: Erin Fleming
Sound Design: Quentin Chiappetta
Twelfth Night
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Peter Francis James
Set Design: Fufan Zhang
Costume Design: Sophia Choi
Lighting Design: Erin Fleming
Sound Design: Quentin Chiappetta
Student-Initiated Projects:
Brontë
By Polly Teale
Directed by Fiona Robberson
untitled
Music and lyrics by Kendrick Lamar
Conceived and directed by Chad Pierre Vann
Welcome to Hysteria
By Mallori Johnson, Sabrina Farooq, and Lucky Vemuri
Directed by Mallori Johnson, Sabrina Farooq, and Lucky Vemuri
What Light
Based on William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet
Directed by Sean Wiberg
Colored
Created with works by George C. Wolfe, Amiri Baraka, and Maya Angelou
Directed by Anthony Richardson
See Invisible
Conceived and directed by Zachary Desmond and Bianca Norwood
Lost Girls
A film by Derrick Belcham and Rosalie Lowe
Directed by Rosalie Lowe
Cowboy Mouth
By Patti Smith and Sam Shepard
Directed by Chris Silvestri
Group 51 – Second-Year Rehearsal Projects:
Gint
By Romulus Linney
Directed by Maria Mileaf
Romeo and Juliet
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Mary B. Robinson
Julius Caesar
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Alex Correia
Babau, El Chupacabra & Other Demons
By Group 51
Directed by Ruth Kanner
Three Sisters
By Anton Chekhov
Directed by Richard Feldman
Group 52 – First-Year Rehearsal Projects:
Pericles
By William Shakespeare
Under the guidance of Richard Feldman, Jenny Lord, and Dawn Saito
Our Lady of 121st Street
By Stephen Adly Guirgis
Directed by Jenny Lord
Stop Kiss
By Diana Son
Directed by Adrienne D. Williams
Club Paradis
An adaptation of Philip Dunning and George Abbott’s Broadway
Directed by Rebecca Guy
Choregraphed by Darryl Quinton
September Playwrights Festival:
Hooded; or Being Black for Dummies
By Tearrance Arvelle Chisholm
Directed by taneisha duggan
Choreographed by Darryl Quinton
Transmissions in Advance of the Second Great Dying
By Jessica Huang
Directed by Ricardo Vázquez
What Happens Next
By Margot Connolly
Directed by Jessi D. Hill
December Playwrights Festival:
Next/Life
By Matthew Capodicasa
Directed by Carolyn Cantor
Primary Trust
By Eboni Booth
Directed by Knud Adams
2018-19
Group 48 – Fourth-Year Productions:
Nora
By Ingmar Bergman
Directed by Adrienne D. Williams
Choreographed by Cori Kresge
Set Design: Jason Simms
Costume Design: Jessica Harrison
Lighting Design: Cha See
Sound Design: Brian Hurley
Detroit ’67
By Dominique Morisseau
Directed by LisaGay Hamilton
Set Design: Jean Kim
Costume Design: Sophia Choi
Lighting Design: Stacey Derosier
Sound Design: Luqman Brown
Into the Woods
Music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, book by James Lapine
Directed by Sarna Lapine
Music directed by Fred Lassen
Choreographed by Whitney Brandt
Set Design: Mikiko Suzuki MacAdams
Costume Design: Valérie Thérèse Bart
Lighting Design: Alan Edwards
Sound Design: Jane Shaw
Queens
By Martyna Majok
Directed by Tyne Rafaeli
Set Design: Narelle Sissons
Costume Design: Andrea Hood
Lighting Design: Dan Scully
Sound Design: Fabian Obispo
Red Speedo
By Lucas Hnath
Directed by Zi Alikhan
Choreographed by Mayte Natalio
Set Design: Narelle Sissons
Costume Design: David Hyman
Lighting Design: Dan Scully
Sound Design: Fabian Obispo
Mother Courage and Her Children
By Bertolt Brecht
Directed by Richard Hamburger
Set Design: Narelle Sissons
Costume Design: Grier Coleman
Lighting Design: Dan Scully
Sound Design: Fabian Obispo
Group 49 – Third-Year Productions:
The Other Shore
By Gao Xingjian
Directed by Jesse J. Perez
Set Design: Deb O
Costume Design: Grier Coleman
Lighting Design: Dan Scully
Sound Design: Broken Chord Collective
A Bright Room Called Day
By Tony Kushner
Directed by Janet Zarish
Set Design: Kimie Nishikawa
Costume Design: Sarita Fellows
Lighting Design: Jake DeGroot
Sound Design: Daniel Kluger
The Forbidden City
By Bill Gunn
Directed by Dennis Hilton-Reid
Set Design: Kimie Nishikawa
Costume Design: Sarita Fellows
Lighting Design: Jake DeGroot
Sound Design: Daniel Kluger
As You Like It
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Ian Belknap
Choreography by Byron Easley
Set Design: Jason Simms
Costume Design: Sarita Fellows
Lighting Design: Paul Hudson
Sound Design: n/a
The Tempest
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Jenny Koons
Set Design: Jason Simms
Costume Design: Nina Vartanian
Lighting Design: Paul Hudson
Sound Design: n/a
Group 50 – Second-Year Rehearsal Projects:
I Want a Country
By Andreas Flourakis
Directed by Kathleen McNenny
Coriolanus
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Alex Correia
Macbeth
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Mary B. Robinson
“…the food of Love….”
Various playwrights
Directed by Candis C. Jones
Associate director: Shaun Patrick Tubbs
The Cherry Orchard
By Anton Chekhov
Directed by Rebecca Guy
The Seagull
By Anton Chekhov
Directed by Jackson Gay
Group 51 – First-Year Rehearsal Projects:
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
By William Shakespeare
Under the guidance of Richard Feldman, Jenny Lord, and Dawn Saito
Bus Stop
By William Inge
Directed by Adrienne D. Williams
Dance Nation
By Clare Barron
Directed by Rebecca Guy
Choreographed by Drew Wildman Foster
La Cocina
By Tony Meneses
Directed by Richard Feldman
September Playwrights Festival:
Evergreens
By Brian Watkins
Directed by Danya Taymor
Pranayama
By James Anthony Tyler
Directed by Estefanía Fadul
Rita También Rita
By Tony Meneses
Directed by Whitney White
December Playwrights Festival:
Nicole Clark is Having a Baby
Written and directed by Morgan Gould
The North Star
By Donja R. Love
Directed by Malika Oyetimein