Productions & Events

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2020-2021 Season

Upcoming

SPRING NIGHT OF SCENES
Directed by the students of Directing II
May 10-11, 2021 

Honors Directing Thesis
WHY ARE YOU KILLING YOURSELF
Directed by Zaina Dana ‘21
May 1, 2021 (live stream) & May 11-12, 2021 (radio play) 

Past

Acting Capstone
GLARE
Directed by Alex Torra, Created by the Ensemble
April 9-11, 2021

Production Ensemble
THE THEATER OF ALL POSSIBILITIES
A devised show about the end of the world 
Directed by Elizabeth Stevens
January 29-31, 2021

Fall Night of Scenes
LET'S PLAY IT THAT WAY: A Virtual Night of Scenes
Directed by students of Directing I
December 16-17, 2020

Senior Company
ETTA JENKS  by Marlane Meyer
Directed by Jack McManus '21
December 4-6, 2020

Other events

Performance Research Workshop
SCENES FROM THE SUPPLIANT WOMEN
Written by Aeschylus, in a New Version by David Greig, with Music by John Browne
Directed by Alex Torra, Choreography by Shavon Norris, Music Direction by Alma Richeh
February 21, 2021

Past Seasons

By Production Type

• Directing Workshops
• Production Ensemble
• Honors Thesis Productions
• Senior Company
• Cooper Events

By Year

2019-2020

• UN-MUTE (Directing II and Sound Design)
• The Women of Trachis (Acting Capstone)
• Team Sunshine Performance Corporation's  ¡BIENVENIDOS BLANCOS! OR WELCOME WHITE PEOPLE! (Cooper Event)
• F*cking A (Senior Company)
• Cassandra: A New Premiere Opera (Music+Theater Colab)
• The Caucasian Chalk Circle (Production Ensemble)

2018-2019

• Marie Antoinette (Production Ensemble) 
• The Pillowman (Senior Company)
• Lars Jan '00 and Early Morning Opera: The Institute of Memory (TIMe) (Cooper Event)
• The (24 Hour) Bald Soprano (Acting Capstone)

2017-2018

• The End: A Queer Reckoning (Acting Capstone)
• The Tempest (Drama Board and Yellow Stockings Production, Directing Thesis)
• HIR (Senior Company) 
• The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee  (Production Ensemble)
• Pig Iron Theatre Company's A Period of Animate Existence (Cooper Event)

2016-2017

• Costume Design Independent Study (THEA 014C): Desta Pulley '17 and Rebecca Rosenthal '20
• What We Fear (Or, The Politics of Monstrosity) (Sound Design Independent Study by Oliver Lipton '18)
• Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again. (Honors Acting Capstone)
• Great Piece of Turf (Or King of the Kitchen) (Sound Design Independent Study by Anna Marfleet '19)
• The Totalitarians (Senior Company)
• William Shakespeare's As You Like It (Production Ensemble)

2015-2016

• Loneliness at the Foul Line (Solo Performance Thesis)
• Night of Scenes: Directing II 2016
• The Seagull (Directing Thesis)
• L'histoire du Soldat (Directing Thesis)
• Airswimming (Honors Acting Capstone)
• Night of Scenes: Directing I 2015
• Aunt Dan and Lemon (Senior Company)
• A Bright Room Called Day (Production Ensemble)
• Chopin Without Piano (Cooper Event)

2014-2015

• Night of Scenes: Directing II 2015
• Mercury Fur (Directing Thesis)
• Selves (Solo Performance Thesis)
• Here in My Garden (Directing Thesis)
• Dublin By Lamplight (Honors Acting Capstone)
• A Pillar of Marble (Dramaturgy Thesis)
• Night of Scenes: Directing I 2014
• Earthquakes in London (Senior Company)
• Daughters of God and Man (Playwriting Thesis)
• Mad Forest (Production Ensemble)
• The Imperial House (Dramaturgy Thesis)

2013-2014

• Night of Scenes: Directing II 2014
• Peter Pan (Directing Thesis)
• The Island (Directing Project, Anna Russell HC '14)
• Lex & Goldaline: A Mirror Fugue in Three Acts (Directing Thesis)
• Equivocation (Directing Thesis)
• Twelfth Night with Pig Iron Theatre Company (Cooper Event)
• The Three Musketeers (Acting Thesis)
• The Real World Never Arrive (Playwriting Thesis)
• It's Not What You Think (Directing Project, Anna Russell HC '14)
• Night of Scenes: Directing I 2013
• Americamisfit (Senior Company)
• A Midsummer Night's Dream (Production Ensemble)
• Murmuration with Makeshift (Special/Guest Event)

2012-2013

• Night of Scenes: Directing II -  HELLO my name is 2013
• Unstuck (Directing Thesis)
• Burn This (Directing Thesis)
• Three Sisters (Production Ensemble)
• The Maids (Acting Thesis)
• Night of Scenes: Directing I 2012
• The Cosmonaut's Last Message... (Senior Company)
• ALL-ONE! (Playwriting Thesis)
• The Intense Fragility (Dramaturgy Thesis)
• The Giant Squid (Special/Guest Event)

2011-2012

• Fireside Tales: Legends and Lore from the Forgotten Wilderness (Dramaturgy Thesis)
• Night of Scenes: Directing II - Wilde/Cinderella 2012
• American Buffalo (Acting Thesis)
• Chimera (Arts Weekend presentation)
• The Baltimore Waltz (Directing Thesis)
• Ivona, Princess of Burgundia (Production Ensemble 2011)
• The House of Widows  (Solo Performance Thesis)
• Night of Scenes: Directing I 2011
• Fefu and Her Friends (Senior Company)

2010-2011

• Happy?  (Playwriting Thesis)
• Lysistrata (Directing Thesis)
• Night of Scenes: Directing II - Swarthmore Follies 2011
• mlle. (Dramaturgy Thesis)
• Farfetched Fables (Production Ensemble)
• Three Tall Women (Acting Thesis)
• Night of Scenes: Directing I 2010
• Metamorphoses (Senior Company)
• The Yes Men (Cooper Event)

2009-2010

• Night of Scenes: Directing II 2010
• The Cure at Troy (Directing Thesis)
• Bodas de Sangre (Blood Wedding) (Directing Thesis)
• Hayavadana, Divided Together (Production Ensemble)
• An Oresteia (Directing Thesis)
• The Island (Acting Thesis)
• Eats Shoots and Ladders (Playwriting Thesis)
• Night of Scenes: Directing I 2009
• Melancholy Play (Senior Company)
• IVONA (Production Ensemble 2010)

2008-2009

• Nights of Scenes: Directing II 2009
• Macbeth (Directing Thesis)
• Romeo & Juliet (Directing and Lighting Design Thesis)
• Pericles, Prince of Tyre (Production Ensemble)
• The Tempest (Acting Thesis and Set Design Thesis)
• About Face: Marking the Unmarked (Solo Performance Thesis)
• Nights of Scenes: Directing I 2008
• Vinegar Tom (Senior Company)
• Pop Out (Playwriting Thesis)

2007-2008

• Night of Scenes: Directing II 2008
• The Other Shore (Production Ensemble)
• Old Times (Acting Thesis)
• Jean-Rene Toussaint/ The Alchemical Theater (Cooper Event)
• Two Nights of Scenes: Directing II 2007
• INNOCENCE / Unschuld (Senior Company)
• Mad Girl's Love Song (Honors Thesis)
• The Riot Group (Cooper Event)

2006-2007

• Commedia Dell'Artemisia (Special/Guest Event)
• BACCHAI (Honors Thesis)
• Night of Scenes: Directing II 2007
• The Fishbowl (Playwriting Thesis)
• All's Well That Ends Well (Honors Thesis)
• Spring Awakening (Production Ensemble)
• Two Nights of Scenes: Directing I 2006
• Days and Nights Within (Senior Company)
• The Last Escape (Cooper Event)
• The Last Five Years
• Must Don't Whip 'Um (Special/Guest Event)

2005-2006

• Stand-up Comic Leslie Tsina '96 Live! (Special/Guest Event)
• Like Ink and Paper: The Love Letters of May Ziadah and Kahlil Gibran (Special/Guest Event)
• The Zoo Story (Honors Thesis)
• Staged Reading (Directing II/Advanced Directing Workshop)
• Return of the Munky (Special/Guest Event)
• Big Love (Production Ensemble)
• Mango Chutney on Mesa Street (Honors Thesis)
• Teater Slava concert (Special/Guest Event) 
• Sabooge Theatre's FATHOM (Special/Guest Event)
• Serata Futurista (Directing Workshop)
• Night of Scenes: Directing I 2005
• Fat Men in Skirts (Senior Company)
• Mondo Broadway: New York Theater and the Cult of Celebrity (Special/Guest Event)
• Harvest (Cooper Event)

2004-2005

• Night of Scenes: Directing II - Collective Creations 2005
• Through the Leaves (Honors Thesis)
• The Persians (Special/Guest Event)
• Everlasting Father: a Religious Fantasy (Honors Thesis)
• Directing II Follies (Directing II/Advanced Directing Thesis)
• Night of Scenes: Directing I - Untitled 29 2004
• Autumn Summer Winter Winter (Senior Company)

2003-2004

• Night of Scenes: Directing II 2004
• Tears of Myrrh (Directing Thesis)
• Phaedra's Love (Special/Guest Event)
• Savage/Love (Production Ensemble)
• Pilot's Thumb (Acting Thesis)
• Hang Tough, Martina (Honors Thesis)
• Home Alone (Directing II/Advanced Directing Workshop)
• Night of Scenes: Directing I - Fish Stories 2003
• A Delicate Balance (Senior Company)
• Insurrection Mass with Funeral March for a Rotten Idea (Special/Guest Event)

2002-2003

• The Unknown Want (Directing II/Advanced Directing Workshop)
• Krapp's Last Tape and The War in Heaven (Directing Thesis)
• Man Equals Man (Production Ensemble)
• Yerma (Directing Thesis)
• Night of Scenes: The Ninth Annual Swarthmore Follies 
• The Invisible Art: Dramaturgy in American Theater (Special/Guest Event)
• Night of Scenes: Directing I 2002
• The Mineola Twins (Senior Company)

2001-2002

• Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? (Directing II/Advanced Directing Workshop)
• LPAC 10th Anniversary Gala
• Between Two Worlds (Directing Thesis)
• I Want a Baby (Production Ensemble)
• Alumni Design Exhibit
• The Eighth Annual Swarthmore Follies (Directing II/Advanced Directing Workshop)
• Night of Scenes: Directing I 2001 
• The Tempest (Senior Company)
• Ferdydurke (2001) (Cooper Event)
• Diary of a Daydream (Special/Guest Event)
• Shut Eye (Special/Guest Event)

2000-2001

• Mythology in Flux (Directing II/Advanced Directing Workshop)
• Courtship (Senior Company)
• The Memoirs of Gluckel of Hameln (Cooper Event)
• Night of Scenes: Directing II 2001 - Will Night Never Come? 
• Night of Scenes: Directing I 2000 - Caged Love
• City for Sale (Cooper Event)

1999-2000

• Fear and Love and Rock and Roll (Directing II/Advanced Directing Workshop)
• Hello & Goodbye (Directing Thesis)
• Ferdydurke 2000 (Cooper Event)
• Night of Scenes: Directing I 1999
• Angels in America Part I: Millennium Approaches (Senior Company)

1998-1999

• Night of Scenes: Sixth Annual Swarthmore Follies
• The Water Hen (Directing Thesis)
• The Knights (Directing Thesis)
• Feeding Saturn (Directing Workshop)
• Retrato de las dos Fridas 
• Melody to Plait a Twig (Special/Guest Event)
• The Pageant of the End of the World (Senior Company)
• Night of Scenes: Directing Workshop 1998
• The Impossible Play (Special/Guest Event) 
• Trip to the Moon (Special/Guest Event)

1997-1998

• Umbilical Discord (Directing Workshop)
• Vulnerable Holds (Directing Workshop)
• Ivona, Princess of Burgundia 
• Poet in New York 
• The Griot Voice/ La Voix du Griot (Special/Guest Event)
• Night of Scenes: The Fifth Annual Swarthmore Follies
• Tongues (Senior Company)
• Night of Scenes: Directing Workshop 1997
• Cafeteria (Cooper Event)

1996-1997

• Seneca's Oedipus 
• Everything You Really Need  (Senior Company)

1995-1996

• Changing in Public (Directing Workshop)
• Night of Scenes: The Fourth Annual Swarthmore Follies 
• The Blue Door (Senior Company)
• Night of Scenes: Directing Workshop 1995
• From the Ashes

1994-1995

• Accidental Death of an Anarchist 
• Night of Scenes: The Third Annual Swarthmore Follies
• As a Stranger Give It Welcome (Senior Company)
• 6 Cycles (Directing Workshop)
• Mi-Gui Ying Beseiges Hangchow

1993-1994

• Night of Scenes: Directing Workshop 1994
• You're Just Like my Father 
• Out of Falling (Senior Company)
• Night of Scenes: The Second Annual Swarthmore Follies
• Curses and Prayers (Directing Workshop)
• Offshore (Special/Guest Event)

1992-1993

• Night of Scenes: Directing Workshop 1993
• La Bete
• Psycho Killers and Twisted Sisters
• Night of Scenes: The First Annual Swarthmore Follies
• Burn This 
• Sisters Weird and Otherwise (Directing Workshop)
• Poison (Special/Guest Event)

1991-1992

• Night of Scenes: Directing Workshop 1992
• The War in Heaven, Struck Dumb, What Is the Word (Cooper Event)
• Ubu Is King
• What Is a Dramaturg? (Special/Guest Event)

1990-1991

• Night of Scenes: Directing Workshop 1991 (Swarthmore Impromptu)

1989-1990

• Night of Scenes: Directing Workshop 1990 (Swarthmore Impromptu)