2009-10 Season

Theater Open House Thursday August 27^th 5:30 p.m. Gorecki Theater—All Students Interested in Theater Productions or Classes are Invited!!

Auditions for Underpants & You Can’t Take It With You; Tentative: evenings of August 30-31 and September 1-2

24 Hour Festival of Short Plays in Petters Auditorium (BAC) Students write, direct, design and perform. Begins the night of Friday, September 4^th; performances must end by Saturday, September 5 at 10:00 p.m.

Jennifer Richter’s Senior Project: Children’s Improv Performance: This performance piece about China tours to local schools Thursday and Friday October 8-9

The Underpants by Steve Martin in the Colman Black Box Theater; Director: Steven Epp (formerly a company member of Theatre de la Jeune Lune); Wednesday October 14-17 at 7:30 pm & October 17 at 9:30 pm & Sunday the 18^th at 2:00 pm

You Can’t Take It With You by Gorge F. Kaufman and Moss Hart in the Gorecki Theater (BAC); Thursday November 12-14 and 19-21 at 7:30; Sunday November 15th at 2:00 pm

Meghan Gunderson and Evan Schumacher’s Senior Project: Don’t Abandon Me; An original play with music by Evan Schumacher; December (dates TBA) in the Colman Black Box Theater

AUDITIONS for Raised in Captivity by Nicky Silver & Macbeth by William Shakespeare; Sunday January 10-Tuesday January 12 with call-backs on the 13^th

Amanda Forstrom & Mason Mahoney’s Senior Project in Acting: Dutchman by Leroi Jones in the STUTH (BAC lower level); Saturday, January 16 at 7:30 and Sunday, January 17 at 2:00 pm

Student Project: The Magic of Jared Sherlock in Petters Auditorium (BAC): January 22-23 at 7:30 pm and Sunday, January 24 at 2:00 pm

Raised in Captivity by Nicky Silver in the Colman Black Box Theater (BAC); Wednesday, February 17 -20 at 7:30 pm and Saturday 20-Sunday 21 at 2:00 pm; Director: Professor Emeritus, Tom Darnall

Macbeth by William Shakespeare in the Gorecki Theater (BAC); Thursday April 18-20^th & 24-27 7:30 pm with a 2:00 matinee Sunday the 21^st

Directing Class One-Act Festival in the Colman Black Box Theater (BAC) Wednesday April 27 and Thursday the 28^th

CSB/SJU Children’s Theater Tour to Elementary Schools; A new play about the lives of a Spanish pioneer family from the 1500’s to the 1800’s in what is now Southwest USA; Monday May 17- Friday May 22, 2010

Our program . . .

CSB/SJU have one of the finest undergraduate theater programs in the Upper Midwest. The theater department brings together a dedicated faculty with strong ties to professional theater companies, a course of study that emphasizes the interrelated nature of all facets of dramatic production and an annual program of both faculty-directed and student-directed plays.

In classes as well as productions, theater students at CSB/SJU learn by doing. Resident and visiting faculty members continually bring new ideas, techniques and challenges to students.

Program Highlights

The theater faculty includes specialists in all major areas of theater, and all directors of productions are full-time faculty members.
Collaboration with the CSB/SJU Fine Arts Programming exposes our students to theater professionals and great productions from all over the country.
The department stages four major productions each year.

Overview of Program

The theater major includes:

Classes in acting, theater history, dramatic literature, costuming and technical theater.
The opportunity to specialize in one of the areas that most interests you.
Four, full-length productions every year.

Contact information:

Leigh Dillard, Department Chair
ldillard@csbsju.edu