Theatre Department

Previous Thesis Productions


Class of 2009

  • M's Orphanage - Alexandra Dahout
  • Stories From the Time of Trees - Cassie Thurston Bianchi

Class of 2008

  • Medea By Seneca - Erin "Pookie" Giblin (directing)
  • Little Red Nose in the Hood, Digital Circus Remix - Peter Schroeder (directing/choreography)

Class of 2007

  • Light at Night - Stacia Torborg (Playwriting)
  • The Tree of Life - Elana McKernan (Playwriting)
  • Frege in Space - Dan Dilliplane (Directing)
  • The Easiest Way - Alex Gagne-Hawes (Directing)
  • The Lover - Lindsay Matteson (Acting)
  • Seeing Double
    Virginia Stephen: Beneath the Show - Bronwyn North-Reist (Performance)
    Pierrot and Moon (The Pierrot of the Minute, Pierrot Dandy and the Moon) - Jonathan Owicki (Performance)

Class of 2006

  • The Flower Peddler – Michael Pape (Playwriting/Directing)
  • Dirty Water – Devon Granmo (Playwriting)
  • ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore – Kati Sweaney (Dramaturgy)
  • Gallow’s Humor – Rowen Haigh (Directing)

Class of 2005

  • Gorey Stories – Miranda King (Directing)
  • The Actor's Nightmare – Julian Emanuel (Directing)
  • The Last Five Years – Josh Roberts (Acting)
  • Macbeth – John Russell (Acting) – faculty–directed show

Class of 2004

  • Abzt – Silvia Rousseva (Directing)
  • The New Poetry – Sylvia Drake (Directing/Playwriting)
  • Catastrophic Conversations with Mr. X – Brendan Regimbal (Directing)
  • The Holy Ghost – Brigid Pierce (Playwriting/music composition)
  • Gross Generalization - James Ashby (Playwriting)
  • Word Salad – Sarah Tomchesson (Directing/Playwriting)
  • No More o’ This Shit – Wright Cronin (Playwriting)
  • Two Birds and a Stone – Mitchell Tribbett (Directing), Kate Piatt–Eckert and Heather Van Zee (Design)

Class of 2003

  • 6 Billion Weapons - Jacob Fenston (Playwriting)
  • Burials at Sea – Andrea Miller (Playwriting)
  • The White Uniform – Stephanie Wood (Acting)
  • Funeral Games – Tamara Carroll (Directing)
  • Hands Around – Sarah Champ (Design) – faculty–directed show
  • The Betrothed – Rachel Anderson (Directing), Ayelet Arbuckle (Acting)
  • The Color of August – Kevin Hodges (Directing)
  • Oddville: the Rebirth of Stupidfresh – Elliot Sharron (Playwriting/Acting)
  • Hiding Places – Laura Birek (Playwriting)

Class of 2002

  • Intersections – Richard Kotulski (Playwriting)
  • Sakharov! – Austin Sherris (Playwriting/Directing)
  • Endgame – Morgan Spector (Acting), Tyler Sinclair (Directing)
  • Disastrous Paris – Rhianna Gordon (Acting)
  • Triumph of Love: The Musical – Paul G. Miller (Directing)
  • Much Ado About Nothing – Sarah Gibson (Acting) – faculty–directed show
  • Good Night Desdemona Good Morning Juilet – Anne Michelson
  • The Green–eyed Monster – Caleb Jacobs–Smith (Acting)
  • Mother Night – Toby Schine (Playwriting/Directing)

Class of 2001

  • The House of Yes – Robin Thompson (Acting), Alyssa Santos (Directing)
  • Til the Day I Die – Michael Weinberg (Directing)

Class of 2000

  • Three Performances by the Idiot Machine – Gavin Kroeber (Design) & Owen Edson (Directing)
  • Nativity – Jamie Ashby (Playwriting)

Class of 1999

  • Biting My Neighbor – Brooke Rogers (Acting)
  • St. Jons Brother – Jonathan Roche (Playwriting / Directing)
  • The Baltimore Waltz – Alexis Poledouris (Directing)
  • King Strang – Dan Harris (Playwriting / Directing)
  • La Vida Es Sueno – Patricia Pancio (Directing)
  • Feather Towing – Jessica Blount (Playwriting)
  • Travesties – Jesse Baldwin (Directing)
  • They're Playing Our Song – Jamie Rea (Acting)
  • How I Learned to Drive – Nathan Emmons (Directing)
  • Amerika! – Leslie Good (Acting) – faculty–directed show

Class of 1998

  • Advantage of Surprise – Addie Eastman (Playwriting/Directing)
  • You're so Smooth, the World’s so Rough – Robert Quillen Camp (Playwriting / Directing)
  • As An Imperfect Actor – Steven Klems (Acting)
  • Polly Honeycomb – Rachel Wier (Design) – faculty–directed show
  • Extemities – Britney Burgess (Directing)

Class of 1997

  • Good Woman of Szechwan – Dana Josslin (Directing)
  • Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll – Ed Tilghman (Acting)

Class of 1996

  • The Bacchae – Joshua Webb (Directing)
  • Bein' Green – Anne K. Rasmussen (Playwriting)
  • A Mexican Funeral in Paris – Dave Bennet (Playwriting)
  • Phaedra – Mary Roberts (Directing)
  • Planet Embudo – Terra Nevins–Hassin (Playwriting)
  • Shakespeare's Women – Deva Nicole Macdonald (Acting)
  • Two Rooms – Kristy Marie Kambanis (Directing)
  • Durang Durang – Chris Loza’ch (Design) – faculty–directed show
  • The Cherry Orchard – Myrlin Hermes (Acting) – faculty–directed show
  • Yarima Atafa and the King – Amy Enell (Choreography/Directing)
  • Warden of the Tomb – Geoff Spady (Directing)

Class of 1995

  • Great Chaos – Alex Rundell (Directing)
  • Long Ago – Eun Jung Yi (Directing)
  • Coyote Ugly – Oona Kersey (Directing)
  • As You Like It – Rebecca Shea (Design)

Class of 1994

  • Albert’s Bridge – Jeremy Wiener (Directing)
  • The Maids – Melanie Zeca (Directing)
  • Naropa – Cassy Beekman (Directing)
  • Yellow Wallpaper – Robin Gordon (Choreography/Directing)
  • Motley – Darcy Salchak (Directing)

Class of 1993

  • Chicks – Christine Kolodge (Acting)
  • Control – Elise Modrovich (playwritin/Directing)
  • Fronteras – Adriana Troxell (Playwriting/Directing)
  • Just Kidding – Daria Eckhardt (Playwriting/Directing)
  • A Man Who Fell Out of Bed – Noah Weinreb (Playwriting/Acting)
  • Tone Clusters – Elizabeth Stevens (Directing)
  • The Wizard of Aids – Kevin Coulson (Directing)
  • La Bete – James Weidman (Acting) faculty–directed show
  • Waiting for Change, You Fat Cow You? – Jennifer M. Dillon (Playwriting/Directing)
  • As Women Do – Rachel Carnes (Choreography/Directing)

Class of 1992

  • Aversion Antigone – Sophie Haviland (Directing)
  • A Life In Theatre – Adam S. Moore (Directing)
  • The Chairs – Jule Polk (Directing)
  • Glengarry Glen Ross – Ephraim Rosenbaum (Directing)
  • Little Shop of Horrors – Randy Gifford (Directing)
  • Quartet – Alicia McMillen & Johanna McKeon (Co-Directing & Co-Acting)
  • Seduced – Bill Stout (Directing)
  • Family Voices – Kay Speilman (Choreography/Directing)
  • Bread and Ice Cream – Amy Partridge (Directing)

Class of 1991

  • Bloode: Winter in a Hot Climate – Anne Washburn (Playwriting)
  • Song and Dance – Althea Gregory (Acting)
  • The Water Engine – Tom Jansson (Directing)
  • Baby with the Bathwater – Greg Quinlan (Directing)
  • Twelfth Night – Leslye Eamon (Design) faculty–directed show
  • Be What You Should Seem to Be – Tanya Ignacio (Choreography/Directing)

Class of 1990

  • Cloud Nine – Sara Ross (Directing)
  • Katzelmacher – Jeff Edman (Directing)

Class of 1989

  • A Man's a Man – Erin Merritt (Directing)
  • Fando and Lis – Lucia Jane Joiner (Directing)
  • Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris – Carlton Rounds (Directing)
  • Megan Terry Play – Chelsea Zephyr (Directing)

Class of 1988

  • Waiting For Godot – Jeremy Appleton (Directing)
  • The Game – Shannon Dailey (Directing)
  • Lawrence Ferlinghetti's Routines – Chela Cadwell (Directing)

Class of 1987

  • At the Hawks Well & The Only Jealousy of Emer – Claia Bryja (Directing)
  • White High Heels – Brenda "Bryn" Fillers (Playwriting)
  • The Overcoat – Gregory Meyer (Directing)
  • Home – Conrad Burmester (Design)

Class of 1986

  • The Real Inspector Hound – Joel Summerlin (Directing)
  • The Unseen Hand – Emily Harris (Directing)
  • Tales of Spider Women – Holly O'Neil (Directing)
  • Three Policemen – David Ayers (Directing) & Bret Fetzer (Playwriting)

Class of 1985

  • The Maids – Lori Gilman (Directing)
  • Seascape – Brain Caven (Directing)
  • Conrad Burmester (Design)
  • Sticks and Bones – Patrick Hurley (Directing)

Class of 1984

  • The Waterfall and A Piece of Monologue – Eric Wiley

Class of 1983

  • Rosencratz & Guildenstern are Dead – Mark Worthington
  • The Boor – Benn Lewis
  • The Physicists – Jill Reinier
  • Ride Across Lake Constance – Katie Laris
  • Letters Home – Mary Dilles
  • Old Times – Gordam Dahlquist
  • Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead – Richard Olmsted
  • (Untitled) – Mark Worthington
  • Antigone – Doug Goodwin
  • Tongues & Savage/Love – Eric Walter

Class of 1982

  • Two for the See Saw – Jim Luckett, Jane Titus
  • Woyzeck – Brown McDonald