Past Productions

Past Production Seasons

Our past productions are listed here for us to highlight previous seasons and the recognitions we received from certain productions. Some of the productions were awarded by The American College Theater Festival (ACTF) is a national theatre program involving 18,000 students annually from colleges and universities across the country. ACTF aims to:

  • Encourage, recognize, and celebrate the finest and most diverse work produced in university and college theatre programs
  • Provide opportunities for participants to develop their theatre skills and insight, and achieve professionalism
  • Improve the quality of college and university theatre in the United States.

Photographs from many of the past productions can be found in photo gallery form. Please click the button below for our past productions!

2025-26 Season

  • The Balcony: Written by Jean Genet, Directed by Jose Zayas
  • Seussical: Book, Music, and Lyrics by Lynn Ahrens & Stephen Flaherty, Directed by Tommy Iafrate, Music Directed by Melissa Yanchak, Choreographed by Joellen Kuhlman
  • Men on Boats: by Jaclyn Backhaus, Directed by Lisa Rothe
  • Chess: Music by Benny Andersson and Bj枚rn Ulvaeus, Lyrics by Tim Rice, Directed & Choreographed by Chaz Wolcott, Music Directed by Melissa Yanchak & Madeline Harts
ACTF Nominees and Winners:
    • The Balcony
      • Irene Ryan Scholarship Award Nominees: Daniel Karp and Adelaine Miller (alternate: Nicholas Whitlock)
      • Design, Technology and Management Nominees: Zahin Mahmood (Stage Management) and Izzy Vagnini (Makeup & Hair Design/Costume Design Assistant)
      • Certificates of Merit for Outstanding Acting and Dialect Execution: The Full Cast - The respondent commented: 鈥淭his production featured some of the strongest acting I鈥檝e seen in my four years as an ACTAF respondent.鈥
      • Kryolan Theatrical Makeup Award: Izabella Vagnini
      • Stage Management Regional Honorable Mention; Respondents Special Recognition Award: Samantha Donnelly
    • Seussical
      • Irene Ryan Scholarship Award Nominees: Vanessa Pliskow & Sofie Caballes (alternate: Charlie Alexis)
      • Musical Theatre Intensive Nominee: Shania Adams (alternate: Thomas Hsin)
      • Design, Technology and Management Nominees: Julianna Picarello (Scenic Design), Katherine Poley and Eliana Rudnicki (Co-Costume Design), Matthew Honan (Lighting Design)

      • Certificates of Merit for both Outstanding Scenic Design and Outstanding Design Collaboration: Costumes & Lighting

      • 2nd Place, ACTF Award for Theatrical Design Excellence in Lighting: Matthew Honan
    • Men On Boats
      • Irene Ryan Scholarship Award Nominees: Epica Kats & Shania Adams (alternate: Leila Kleiman)
      • Design, Technology and Management Nominees: Zahin Mahmood (Stage Management), Izzy Hale (Costume Design), Jax Kobey and Yaffa Lofstock (Co-Scenic Design)
    • Chess
      • Irene Ryan Scholarship Award Nominees: William Predmore & Mila Dorji (alternate: Gisele Domingues)
      • Musical Theatre Intensive Nominee: Isabella Rivalsi
      • Design, Technology and Management Nominees: Chloe Zucker (Stage Manager)

      • Certificate of Merit for Excellence in Stage Management: Chloe Zucker

Outstanding Ensemble Performance of a One Act NPP Reading: Daniel Karp as Avery in Doompocalypse by Sondai Nanabuluku

Musical Theatre Intensive/Open Jar Institute Dance Award Runner-Up: Sofie Caballes

National Alliance of Acting Teachers Award: Tommy Iafrate

In addition to these festival-wide awards, we also had students advance to the semifinals or finals for the Irene Ryan Acting Scholarship Award and the Musical Theatre Intensive Scholarship Award: 

鈥 Vanessa Pliskow (partner: Sofie Caballes), Irene Ryan Acting Scholarship Award semifinalist

鈥 William Predmore, MTI Scholarship Award semifinalist

鈥 Vanessa Pliskow, MTI Scholarship Award semifinalist

鈥 Daniel Karp (partner: Adelaine Miller), Irene Ryan Acting Scholarship Award finalist

鈥 Adelaine Miller (partner: Daniel Karp), Irene Ryan Acting Scholarship Award finalist

2024-25 Season

  • Sweat: Written by Lynn Nottage, Directed by Brandon Wright
  • Anything Goes: Music and Lyrics by Cole Porter, New Book by Timothy Crouse and John Weidman, Directed by Tommy Iafrate, Music Directed by Melissa Yanchak, Choreographed by Joellen Kuhlman
  • As You Like it: by William Shakespeare, Adapted and Directed by Lisa Rothe
  • Encounters: Directed and Choreographed by Rogelio Lopez with Neva Kenny and Elizabeth Mozer
ACTF Nominees and Winners:
    • Sweat
      • Irene Ryan Scholarship Award Nominees: Amaini Varney and Leila Kleiman (alternate: Foster Beach)
      • Certificate of Merit for Co-Scenic Designers: Shaw Peng, Mariane Schultz Enge and Julianna Picarello
    • Anything Goes
      • Irene Ryan Scholarship Award Nominees: Shania Adams and Jack Iovanella (alternate: Lucas Bernhauer)
      • Musical Theatre Intensive Nominee: Leilani Harris
      • Design, Technology and Management Nominees: Lydia Korneffel (Stage Manager), Ravin Van Gelder (Co-Costume Designer) and Grace Burkhart (Dramaturg)
      • Certificates of Merit: Lydia Korneffel and Ravin Van Gelder
    • As You Like It
      • Irene Ryan Scholarship Award Nominees: Mila Dorgi and Sam Katzman (alternate: Celeste Iglesias)
      • Design, Technology and Management Nominees: Chris Chang (Stage Manager), CK Zaki (Costume Designer), Sophia Vecchiariello, Marina Sitnikov, Isabella Perez and Samantha Donnelly (Assistant Stage Managers)

2023-24 Season

  • Envoy: Written by Belinda Bremner, Directed by Brandon Wright
  • Bera Handa: The Sound of the Drum: Adapted by Bandula Jayawardhana, Translated by Sula Mahagam Arachchi, Composer: H. H. Bandara, Music Transcription by Ranjith Balasuriya, Music Arranged by Ali Sadeqi, Directed and Choreographed by Lakshmi Damayanthi, Music Directed by Melissa Yanchak
  • Three Sisters: a fresh adaptation based on the play by Anton Chekhov, Written and Directed by Will Pomerantz
  • Light in the Piazza: Book by Craig Lucas, Music and Lyrics by Adam Guettel, Directed by Tommy Iafrate, Music Directed by Melissa Yanchak.
ACTF Nominees and Winners:
    • Envoy
      • Irene Ryan Scholarship Award Nominees: Alexandra Blum  and Jillian Carley (alternate: Amaini Varney)
      • Certificate of Merit for Distinguished Achievement: Keaton Hemminger (Assistant Directing) and Taylor Denning (Stage Management)
    • Bera Handa
      • Irene Ryan Scholarship Award Nominees: Jared Wofse and Alix O'Connor (alternate: Niamh McCarthy)
      • Musical Theatre Intensive Nominee: Jared Wofse

2022-23 Season

  • Into the Woods: Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, Book by
    James Lapine
  • Jazz Nutcracker: Conceived and choreographed by Joellen Kuhlman.
  • Thrive, or What You Will: {an Epic}, Written by L M Feldman,
    Supported by the New Georges Audrey Residency, Directed by Lisa Rothe.
  • Rent: Book, Music and Lyrics by Jonathan Larson, Musical Arrangements,Original Concept/Additional Lyrics, Steve Skinner, Billy Aronson, Music Supervision, Dramaturg and Additional Arrangements: Tim Weil, and Lynn Thomson, Directed by Brandon A. Wright and Tommy Iafrate, Music Directed by Melissa Yanchak.
ACTF Nominees and Winners:
    • Into the Woods
      • Irene Ryan Scholarship Award Nominees: Jenna Cooperman and Patrick Saint Ange (alternate: Jillian Carley)
      • Musical Theatre Intensive Nominee: Kristina Yim

Eventually, Kristina Yim went to the Region 2 ACTF festival and was selected as the
Musical Theatre Intensive Awardee and subsequently attended the national festival at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, where she was awarded the Creative Artist Award, which was presented 鈥淔or Excellence in the Creative Arts鈥.

    • Thrive
      • Irene Ryan Scholarship Award Nominees: Ally Restrepo and Kaitlyn Hennie (alternate: Cameron Reilly-Steele)
      • Certificate of Merit for Distinguished Achievement:  Madison Stolarski (Stage Manager),  Sophia Greggio Mas (Assistant Costume Designer), and Neva Derewetzky (Composer and Sound Designer)
    • Rent
      • Irene Ryan Scholarship Award Nominees: Patrick Saint Ange and Liz Rivera (alternate: Nat Fox)
      • Musical Theatre Intensive Nominee: Sophia Romano (alternate: Saoirse Cohen)

2021-22 Season

  • Triptych: An Experience in Three Acts; Self Help in the Anthropocene by Kristin Idaszak, The Stronger by August Strindberg, and The Jewish Wife by Bertolt Brecht; directed by Elizabeth Mozer.
  • In Pieces: A new musical by Joey Contreras, Directed by Tommy Iafrate, Music Directed by Robyn Womersley
  • Sunset Mirage: An original dance production directed and choreographed by David Wynen. Associate Choreographer, Neva Kenny
  • She Kills Monsters: by Qui Nguyen, Directed by Brian Gillespie
ACTF Nominees and Winners:
    • Triptych
      • Irene Ryan Scholarship Award Nominees: Ruby McEwan and Jillian Carley (alternate: Mary Chattin)
      • Certificate of Merit for Distinguished Achievement: Gayani Bulathsinghala (Costume Design) & Em Miller (Scenic Design)
    • In Pieces
      • Irene Ryan Scholarship Award Nominees: Saoirse Cohen and Derrick Weisburd (alternate: Joshua Schull)
      • Certificate of Merit for Distinguished Achievement: Molly Cooke (Stage Management) & Theodore Watson Ley (Costume Design)
      • Musical Theatre Intensive Nominee: Bethany Miller
    • She Kills Monsters
      • Irene Ryan Scholarship Award Nominees:  Mary Chattin and  Olivia Timmis (alternate: Saoirse Cohen)
      • Certificate of Merit for Distinguished Achievement: Molly Cooke (Stage Management), Michael Tang & JessieJean Newman-Getzler (Fight Captain and Dance Captain Team), and Costume and Craft Production Team
      • Musical Theatre Intensive Scholarship Award nominee: Nick Colucci (Composer)
      • Musical Theatre Intensive Scholarship Award finalists: Patrick Saint Ange, Bethany Miller, and Joshua Schull

2020-21 Season

  • Macbeth: written by William Shakespeare, directed by Tom Kremer.
  • *Pippin: Book by Roger O. Hirson; (Uncredited) Book by Bob Fosse; Music by Stephen Schwartz; Lyrics by Stephen Schwartz; Directed by Tommy Iafrate, music directed by Robyn Womersley and choreographed by David Wynen
    *This was a classroom production and was not available to the public.
  • Everybody: written Brandon Jacob-Jenkins, directed by Elizabeth Mozer.
  • The Puzzled Piece: Devised an directed by Dany茅 Brown.
ACTF Nominees and Winners:
    • Macbeth
      • Irene Ryan Scholarship Award Nominees: Gabe Pinciotti, Christine Skorupa, and Charles Meckley  (alternate: David Perfetti)
      • Certificate of Merit for Stage Management: John Knitter
    • Pippin
      • Irene Ryan Scholarship Award Nominees: Julia Rakus, Sydney Perruzza, and Jenna Cooperman (alternate: Joshua Schull)
      • Musical Theatre Intensive Nominee: Saoirse Cohen
    • Everybody
      • Irene Ryan Scholarship Award Nominees: Patrick Saint Ange and Ruby Mcewen (alternate: Kyra Grays)
      • Certificate of Merit for Stage Management: Cady Vitale

Among them, Sydney Perruzza was a semifinalist for the festival-wide Irene Ryan Acting Scholarship Award.

Julia Rakus - Recognition of Outstanding Achievement for her performance in the ACTF Region 2's Festival 53 Group Song and Runner up for the Musical Theatre Intensive Scholarship Award Runner-up

Sophia Geisser - Recognition of Outstanding Achievement for her performance in the ACTF Region 2's Festival 53 Group Song

Julia was chosen as the runner-up for the festival-wide Musical Theatre Intensive Scholarship Award (after winning in 2019) with Sophia Geisser and Joshua Schull also as finalists for that award. 

2019-20 Season

  • The Wolves: written by Sarah Delappe, directed by Anne Brady.
  • A Man of No Importance: book by Terrence McNally, music by Stephen Flaherty, lyrics by Lynn Ahrens and based on the film A Man of No Importance. Directed by Tommy Iafrate, music directed by Robyn Womersley and choreographed by David Wynen.
  • *Sweet Charity: Book by Neil Simon, Music by Cy Coleman, Lyrics by Dorothy Fields, Conceived, Staged, and Choreographed by Bob Fosse, Directed and Choreographed by David Wynen, Music Direction by Robyn Womersley.

*Full production was cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic. 

ACTF Nominees and Winners:
    • Sweet Charity
      • Irene Ryan Scholarship Award Nominees: Caitlin Westfall and RJ Fox (alternate: David Perfetti)
      • Musical Theatre Intensive Winner: Sophia Geisser

2018-19 Season

  • The Revolutionists: written by Lauren Gunderson, directed by Tom Kremer.
  • Guys and Dolls: Inspired by the stories of Damon Runyon, Guys and Dolls is considered by many to be the perfect American musical comedy. This production is directed by Anne Brady and choreographed by David Wynen with musical direction by Kristina Ruffo.
  • Jazz Nutcracker 2018: choreographed and directed by JoEllen Kuhlman.
  • Baltimore: by Kirsten Greenidge, directed by Godfrey L. Simmons, Jr.
  • The Burial at Thebes: a version of Sophocles' Antigone by Seamus Heaney, directed by Elizabeth Mozer.

2017-18 Season

  • Belleville: written by Amy Herzog, directed by Anne Brady.

  • The Wizard of Oz: by L. Frank Baum with Music and Lyrics by Harold Arlen and E. Y. Harburg, background music by Herbert Stothart, dance and vocal arr. by Peter Howard, orchestration by Larry Wilcox, adapted by John Kane for the Royal Shakespeare Company. Based upon the Classic Motion Picture owned by Turner Entertainment Co. and distributed in all media by Warner Bros., directed by Tommy Iafrate.

  • Jazz Nutcracker: choreographed and directed by JoEllen Kuhlman.

  • The Liar: by David Ives, directed by Tom Kremer.

  • The Castle on the Hill: written, conceived and directed by Elizabeth Mozer.

2016-2017 Season

  • The Motherf**ker with the Hat: written by Stephen Adly Guirgis, directed by Carol Hanscom.

  • Bells Are Ringing: book and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, music by Jule Styne, directed by Tommy Iafrate.

  • Jazz Nutcracker: choreographed and directed by JoEllen Kuhlman.

  • A Lie of the Mind: written by Sam Shepard, directed by Anne Brady.

  • Lady Windermere's Fan: written by Oscar Wilde, directed by Tom Kremer.

2015-2016 Season

  • God of Carnage: written by Yasmina Reza, Translated by Christopher Hampton, directed by Tom Kremer.

  • Spring Awakening: book & lyrics by Steven Sater, music by Duncan Sheik, based on the play by Frank Wedekind, directed by Tommy Iafrate.

  • Dancing at Lughnasa: written by Brian Friel, directed by Elizabeth Mozer.

  • Hamlet: written by William Shakespeare, directed by Anne Brady.

2014-2015 Season

  • The Lying Kind: written by Anthony Neilson, directed by Carol Hanscom.

  • A Chorus Line: conceived & originally directed & choreographed by Michael Bennett, book by James Kirkwood and Nicholas Dante, music by Marvin Hamlisch, lyrics by Edward Kleban, co-choreographed by Bob Avian, directed by Elizabeth Mozer.

  • Stupid F**king Bird: by Aaron Posner, directed by Anne Brady
  • Orpheus: A Collaborative Dance production choreographed by Andy Horowitz, JoEllen Kuhlman, Samuel Elikem Nyamuame, Stephanie (Surowka) Sanders; Music collaboration with Samuel Elikem Nyamuame and James Burns
  • 惭辞濒颈茅谤别'蝉 Tartuffe, translation by Richard Wilbur, directed by Tom Kremer

2013-2014 Season

  • Don't Dress for Dinner: written by Marc Camoletti, adapted By Robin Hawdon, directed by Carol Hanscom.

  • RENT: book, music, and lyrics by Jonathan Larson, directed by Tom Kremer.

  • 7 Deadly Sins: choreographed by JoEllen Kuhlman.

  • Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone: adapted and directed by Elizabeth Mozer.

  • Anne Boleyn: by Howard Brenton, directed by Anne Brady.

2012-2013 Season

  • Mauritius: written by Theresa Rebeck, directed by Carol Hanscom.

  • Hairspray: music by Marc Shaiman, lyrics by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman, book by Mark O'Donnell and Thomas Meehan, based on the New Line Cinema film written and directed by John Waters, directed by Anne Brady.

  • Dead Man's Cell Phone: written by Sarah Ruhl, directed by Elizabeth Mozer.

  • Cosmogony: choreography by JoEllen Kuhlman.

  • A Midsummer Night's Dream: by William Shakespeare, adapted and co-directed by Tom Kremer and Rodrigo Nunez.

2011-2012 Season

  • Reckless: written by Craig Lucas, directed by Carol Hanscom.

  • Man of LaMancha: book by Dale Wasserman, music by Mitch Leigh, lyrics by Joe Darion, directed by Tom Kremer.

  • A Broken Key: choreographed by JoEllen Kuhlman.

  • The Crucible: play by Arthur Miller, directed by Anne Brady.

  • Alice in Wonderland: a devised theatre work based on the literary works of Lewis Carroll.

2010-2011 Season

  • A Streetcar Named Desire: written by Tennessee Williams.

  • Little Shop of Horrors: music by Alan Menken, book by Howard Ashman.

  • Noises Off!: written by Michael Frayn.

  • Julius Caesar: written by William Shakespeare.

For more information on past productions please contact the department directly.