Production Opportunities in the Studio Theatre

The Studio Theatre is the Theatre Department’s intimate black-box performance space - ideal for student-directed workshops and experimental theatre productions. Recent productions in the Studio Theatre have included:

• Begin Again, a workshop of a new musical (2005).
• A Country Doctor – by Len Jenkin, based on a short story by Franz Kafka (2005).
• Productions written and directed by students, for example in 2004: Last Call, inspired by the songs of Elliot Smith; and Three Wise Monkeys, a surrealist vision of a future where healing is not what we expect it to be.
• An adaptation of Nicolai Erdman’s political satire The Suicide, reset in the Middle East (Finalist, regional Kennedy Center/American College Theatre Festival (KC/ACTF), 2004).
• Eugene Ionesco’s absurdist comedy Rhinoceros (National finalist, KC/ACTF, 2003).
• Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train (regional Semi-finalist, KC/ACTF, 2003).
• Othello (regional Finalist, KC/ACTF, 2002).
• The Constitutional Convention: A Sequel, Charles Mee’s experimental work about colonialism (regional Semi-finalist, KC/ACTF, 2002).
• Thornton Wilder’s classic The Skin of Our Teeth (2002).
• Woody Allen’s Play It Again, Sam (2001).
• The New England premiere of Len Jenkin’s tale, Pilgrims of the Night (2000).
• The Swan (1999).