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
Black in Thyme
Created by and featuring RJ Christiano, Izaiah Cardona, Malik Fisher, Christian Smikle, and Jade Tallie
A young African American by the name of Mark Coolidge always wanted to be a chef. He thought he’d one day achieve that goal. However, after a devastating accident where he seemingly loses his life, he finds himself back in the 1960’s, where the world isn’t so nice to people like him.
If you can’t stand excitement, see your doctor before seeing
The Drag
!
Originally written in 1926, and censored due to its queer themes and content, Mae West’s
The Drag
follows Rolly Kingsbury, his damaged ex-lover David, his dissatisfied wife Clair and her admirer Grayson, his domineering father Judge Kingsbury and dutiful father-in-law Dr. Richmond; the Doctor’s sister Barbara and her close friend Marion, the maid Jessie, the butler Parsons, the Duchess, the Doll, Mr. Winnie Lewis, Mr. Gillingwater, and a Taxi Driver.
Featuring Eli Bettmann, Arin Deutsch, Hope Lowery, and Novalie Nguyen
Staged readings of new work by Luis Melendez and Benjamin Koeberle
Venue: Humanities Theater
AMORE FOLIE A DUEX/LOVE MADNESS FOR TWO by Luis Melendez, stage managed by Andres Lafazia
A family of four, consisting of a married couple, Miguel and his wife, Ingrid, and Her Mother and Aunt on a Disney cruise.
Saturday, 5/2 @ 2:30
Clayton Sherman 1953 by Benjamin Koeberle A closeted WW2 veteran, working as an English professor at a college in Upstate New York during the early 1950s, is torn between living in the shadows or following his heart after reuniting with a man, a fellow private, he fell secretly in love with during the war. Saturday, 5/ 2 @ 7:30
RECENT EVENTS
Purchase Performance Lab
An evening of three performances by graduating Theatre and Performance seniors. Performances will begin in The Red Room, continue in Southside, and end in The Red Room. Ushers will guide you from each location throughout the evening.
Theory City: Live Reloaded
Created and performed by Keysaun Stubbs
Theory City: Live Reloaded
is a one-person satirical show about conspiracy culture, media, and the growing mistrust of institutions. It’s adapted from Stubbs’ original web series; a workplace comedy set inside a conspiracy theory company that broadcasts to the world. The play itself takes place at Purchase, where the company’s chaotic Boss has been invited to give a presentation on campus.
Featuring Ari Laurie Directed By Hope Lowery Written by Ari Laurie in collaboration with Therese (Tea) Marie Rigor, Ellie McIntyre, and Hope Lowery. Inspired by Community Lesbians.
The Will to Be Dangerous
(the heart of The Untitled Lesbian Senior Project) is a devised choreopoem ritual piece with text culminating from community lesbians talking, writing, painting, shouting about their lives. It deals extensively with that “I just came out as a lesbian” feeling. Exploring topics like sex, hunger, yearning, loving, join 6 black and brown lesbians at all different stages of their coming out, as they unwrap themselves in this dream-like “lesbian wonderland”.
Content Warning:Intimacy, Profanity
Sleepwalking In Plexus
Written, directed, and performed by Grace Bradley
Featuring voiceover work by Spencer Scalamoni, Kim Crossway, and Link Hagerty
Sleepwalking In Plexus
follows Ada Gaudreau, a 20 something cosmetologist with big dreams of Hollywood and worldwide super stardom. Things take a turn for the strange when she auditions for a televised talent competition.
Mystical Realms: A Tale of Grief and Identity
is an ensemble-driven exploration of loss, healing, and self-discovery, told through a world where fantasy and reality intertwine. The piece examines how grief reshapes identity and how community can guide us through transformation.
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.
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?”
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 ofconnection. Over the course of a single evening,an unexpectedly vulnerable conversation ensues between them. A snapshot of two lives that are dense withconflict, joy, possibility, and most importantly love.
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.
Originally produced by StarKid Productions Music & lyrics by Jeff Blim, book by Matt and Nick Lang Directed by Lily Wolpert
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
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.
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
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.
