BA Theatre & Performance Senior Project Productions / Events

These projects are all BA student-produced works. They include productions/performances, and all are open to the public and free.  

For free or low-cost events, we encourage guests to consider a contribution to support our students and productions.

UPCOMING EVENTS

 

 

Everybody / December 4-6

Written by Brendan Jacobs Jenkins
Directed by Amaya Adu and Morgan Reichberg
Featuring Victoria Israel and Krissy Thompson
There’s a moral to it.
Based on the 15th century play Everyman, Everybody is a journey that attempts to teach us about values, loss and love.
Venue: Humanities Theater

Thursday, 12/4 @ 7:30pm
Friday, 12/5 @ 7:30pm
Saturday, 12/6 @ 7:30pm

Ticket reservation
Suggested Contribution $5
Digital Playbill

 

 

 


RECENT EVENTS

 

 

The Secretaries

The Secretaries/November 20-22

Written by The Five Lesbian Brothers
Directed by Aaron Levesque and Cameron Isveck
Featuring Lilly Ritter and Zia Williams
Costume design by Sydney Mellina

Welcome to Big Bone! At Cooney Lumber Mill, Pretty Patty Johnson is the newest member of the secretarial pool, being introduced to a world of strict diets, missing lumberjacks, and a secret clicking language she doesn’t understand, all under the watchful eye of seductive office manager, Susan Curtis. In this campy and sapphic satirical thriller, you’ll be left wondering, “Do I love him, or just his jacket?”

 

 

 

Venue: CMFT Studio 2nd Floor

Thursday, 11/20 @ 7:30
Friday, 11/21 @ 7:30
Saturday, 11/22 @ 7:30
Ticket Reservations

Suggested Contribution $5

Digital Playbill

 

God of Carnage/ November 13-15

Written by Yasmina Reza
Featuring Daniel DeChristopher and Jackson Sorice
Directed by Hope Lowery

Venue: Southside

Thursday,11/13 @ 7:30
Friday,11/14 @ 7:30
Saturday,11/15 @ 7:30

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Am I Blue

Written by Beth Henley
Directed by Franki Mastrone
Featuring Ryan DuPont and Shaday Garvey


New Orleans, autumn of 1968, two teenagers meet by chance in desperate need of connection.
Over the course of a single evening,
an unexpectedly vulnerable conversation ensues
between them. A snapshot of two lives that are dense with conflict, joy, possibility, and most importantly love.

Digital playbill

Suggested Contribution $5

 

 

The Most Massive Woman Wins The Most Massive Woman Wins

Written by Madeline George
Directed by Nicholas Herring

Featuring Allison Iacuzzo, Alyssa Bella,T Bledsoe, and
Belle Defala.

Challenging, brutal, and hilarious, four women of various shapes and sizes sitting in the waiting room of a liposuction clinic explore their perceptions of body image.

 

Habitually Us, May 9 & 10

 A staged reading of a new play by Kathryn Heintz

Venue: CMFT Studio 2nd Floor

Friday, 5/9 @7:30
Saturday, 5/10 @ 7:30

 

 


I’ll Show How Great I Am / April 23

featuring and created by Osiris Warren

Venue: Humanities Theatre

Free Attendance / Suggested Contribution $5

Wednesday, 4/23 @ 9:00pm - One night only! (Yes, 9pm - not a misprint!)


Senior Project Festival / April 24-26

Venue: CMFT Studio 2nd Floor

Governess of Floods Governess of Floods

Created by Stella Mahler

Governess of Floods digital playbill

 

 

 

 

 

The Station The Station

featuring: Daniel Pierre, Kat Tobits, and Rachel Skennion

The Station digital playbill

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Story of an Unraveling

Written by James Anderson
An original play about the journey of the understanding of connection and the self.

The Story of an Unraveling digital playbill

Free Attendance / Suggested Contribution $5

Thurs, 4/24 @ 7:30pm
Fri, 4/25 @ 7:30pm
Sat, 4/26 @ 7:30pm

The Guy Who Didn’t Like Musicals / April 17-19

Originally produced by StarKid Productions
Music & lyrics by Jeff Blim, book by Matt and Nick Lang
Directed by Lily Wolpert

The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals Everything in Hatchetfield seemed normal until people began singing… Then, they began dancing… And now, a musical pandemic is sweeping the entire city. It’s up to Paul (an average guy who doesn’t like musicals) and his friends to stop this musical apocalypse and fight for humanity’s future. Directed by Lily Wolpert and featuring Daniel Velasquez, Anthony Archer, and Ainsley Schuth

Venue: Humanities Theatre

Free Attendance / Suggested Contribution $5

Thurs, 4/17 @ 7:30pm
Fri, 4/18 @ 7:30pm
Sat, 4/19 @ 7:30pm

The Guy Who Didn’t Like Musicals Digital Playbill

 

Geryon / April 10-12

A BA Theatre & Performance major Senior Project production.


Geryon was a monster. Everything about him was red. A theatrical performance inspired by Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse by Anne Carson. Featuring the works of Alec Hoxha, Max Tandy, and Munirah Morris. Directed by Amaya Adu.

Venue: CMFT Studio Theatre 2 nd Floor

Free Attendance / Suggested Contribution $5

Thurs, 4/10 @ 7:30pm
Fri, 4/11 @ 7:30pm
Sat, 4/12 @ 7:30pm

Geryon Digital Playbill


The Guy Who Didn’t Like Musicals / April 17-19

with music and lyrics by Jeff Blim and book by Matt and Nick Lang.
A BA Theatre & Performance major Senior Project production.

Collective Rage / April 3-5

By Jen Silverman

poster for collective rage

A Senior Project production from the BA Theatre & Performance major; featuring the work of students Briana Reid, Isabela Carmina Ragano, and Rebakkah Ruffin.

This hilarious play, which The New York Times called “a fult-tilt lesbian/bi-curious/genderqueer/Shakespearean comedy for everyone,” explores anger, sex, love and the “thea-tah” through the experiences of five women named Betty.

Venue: CMFT Studio Theatre 2 nd Floor

Free Attendance / Suggested Contribution $5

Thurs, 4/3 @ 7:30pm
Fri, 4/4 @ 7:30pm
Sat, 4/5 @ 7:30pm

Collective Rage Digital Playbill


Purchase Performance Lab, Senior Project: A Spanish Little Black Girl

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Written by and performed by Rayna Brown
Directed by Theron Gearty

Running time: this project is approximately 20 minutes

A coming-of-age story about Rayna growing up in New York City in the 2000s and facing challenges in finding her own voice and her own identity as an Afro-Latina Girl in America.

Digital playbill

Humanities Theater
Thurs, 10/31 @ 7:30pm
Fri, 11/1 @ 7:30pm
Sat, 11/2 @ 7:30pm

Bold, experimental, and moving works produced as capstone projects by students in Theatre & Performance.