2009 - 2010 Productions
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Book Club PlayBy Karen Zacarias
Sometimes the most incredible stories are not the ones between the covers of novels that members of book clubs devour and dissect in communities across America. Sometimes they're within the club itself. At least that's what Karen Zacarias presents in her out-of-control comedy which is getting its third national showing at Doane University this fall. It's a delightful new comedy about people who read books, people who say they read books, and people who prefer books to other people. |
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Evil Dead the MusicalMusic by Christopher Bond, Frank Cipolla, Melissa Morris, & George Reinblatt
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Dead Man’s Cell PhoneBy Sarah Ruhl
An incessantly ringing cell phone in a quiet café. A stranger at the next table who has had enough. And a dead man-with a lot of loose ends. So begins Dead Man's Cell Phone, a wildly imaginative new comedy by playwright Sarah Ruhl, recipient of a MacArthur "Genius" Grant and Pulitzer Prize finalist for her play The Clean House. Dead Man's Cell Phone, is an odyssey of a woman forced to confront her own assumptions about morality, redemption, and the need to connect in a technologically obsessed world. |
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Three SistersBy Anton Chekhov in a new version by Paul Schmidt
Anton Chekhov is undeniably unique and the four masterpieces he composed during his brief life have inspired the course of contemporary theatre for more than a century. His plays are beautiful ones, comedies he called them, but poignant, full of love and yearning, orchestrated by subtle recurring themes that weave through their four act structure. Birch trees are almost their signature. And they are large cast plays of a dozen actors. But ideally with no “stars.” Each is part of an ensemble and has a fully developed off-stage life—one full of memories, dreams, hope and fears And each too, no matter the size of his role has a “moment,” a time in which one can identify with the angst of the buried life. |
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Awards & Accomplishments
Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival (KCACTF) 2010 including:
5 Meritorious Achievement Award
- Acting Ensemble: A Dream Play
- Directing: Book of Tink - Zack Kloppenborg
- Scenic Design: Book of Tink - Josh Rajaee
- Scenic Design: Evil Dead the Musical - Josh Rajaee
- Stage Management: Evil Dead the Musical - Brianna Schreiner
Irene Ryan Acting Competition
Becky Marsh and her partner, Joe Anderson, made it to the Final Round (top 16 out of 280 actors - a first for Doane University)
3 teams had excellent showings in the Preliminary Rounds
Design Awards
- 1st Place in National Sound Design Awards for Book of Tink - Chet Miller
- 2nd Place in Barbizon Awards for Scenery for Evil Dead the Musical - Josh Rajaee
- 2nd Place in Regional Prop Design Awards for Evil Dead the Musical - Troy Lewellen
Directing Awards
- Zack Kloppenborg was selected for the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society(SDC) National Fellowship Scene Audition
- Chris Owens was selected for the Directing a Concert Reading of a National Playwriting Program (NPP)