Fall 2021: Black Comedy
In the fall of 2021, TOOP produced Peter Schaffer's Black Comedy directed by James Scheinbaum ('23).
From left to right: Lydia Borsi ('21) & Abby Delio ('22)
~Fall 2019~
From left to right: Autumn Kudlack ('23) & James Dietz ('19)
~Fall 2019~
From left to right: Elizabeth Winterbourne ('22), Ben Frazer ('20), Rosie Flanagan ('19, T5 '20), Amanda Gillen ('20, T5 '21), Kai Huynh ('22)
~Spring 2019~
From left to right: Payton Nugent ('20), Noah Hammes ('20), Reid Wilson ('19), Sammi Richardson ('19)
~Spring 2017~
From left to right: Amanda Gillen ('20, T5 '21), Neal Ganguli ('20)
~Fall 2016~
From left to right: Matthew Stolman & Michelle Fonda
~Fall 2014~
From left to right: Danny Mensel & Halle Burns
~Spring 2015~
From left to right: Steven Winkelman & Jordan Polcyn-Evans
~Spring 2015~
From left to right: Michael Tamburrino, Kathryn Loveless ('15) & Sarah Kingsley
~Fall 2014~
In the fall of 2021, TOOP produced Peter Schaffer's Black Comedy directed by James Scheinbaum ('23).
In the spring of 2021, TOOP produced Harold Pinter's Family Voices, A Kind of Alaska, and The Dumb Waiter directed by Shawn Cummings ('21).
In the fall of 2020, TOOP produced Sophocles' Antigone directed by Lydia Borsi ('21).
In the Spring of 2020, TOOP intended to produce two shows: Shakespere's Measure for Measure directed by Olivia Banc ('20) and Kristin Idaszak's Second Skin directed by Brenn Whiting ('20). Unfortunately due to COVID-19 these two productions were never able to be performed.
In the Spring of 2020, TOOP intended to produce two shows: Shakespere's Measure for Measure directed by Olivia Banc ('20) and Kristin Idaszak's Second Skin directed by Brenn Whiting ('20). Unfortunately due to COVID-19 these two productions were never able to be performed.
In the fall of 2019, TOOP produced two student-written one-act plays with great success! Out, written and directed by Famy Xia ('20), centered on a young woman taking control of her future for the first time. Diaries of Budapest, written by Sam Morton ('19) and directed by Ash Figueira ('21), was a story about a family reconciling with their past, their national identities, and with each other.
TOOP produced not one, but two plays in the Spring of 2019!
Joshua Harmon's Significant Other, directed by Jess Ervin ('20), was a funny, yet heartbreaking, exploration of the ways relationships can change almost imperceptibly over time, until one day you look back and everything is different. It told the story of a close-knit college friend group growing up, finding love, and getting married.
Neil Simon's The Odd Couple, directed by Abby Delio ('22) and Noah Hammes ('20) told the story of two close friends who are forced to live together when one of them gets divorced. The two mismatched roommates learnt to compromise and grew as people on the Drama House stage, making the audience laugh and cry.
The Weir by Connor McPherson, directed by Brenn Whiting ('20), was a show about loneliness and loss discussed through the lens of folkloric fairy-tales as narrated by a group of friends at an Irish bar.
Proof by David Auburn, directed by Anne Boatman ('20), centered on Catherine, the daughter of a recently deceased mathematical genius, and her struggle with mathematical genius and mental illness. Throughout, the play explored Catherine's fear of following in her father's footsteps, both mathematically and mentally and her desperate attempts to stay in control.
During the Spring of 2018, TOOP produced William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, directed by Andria Rabenold. In what the director described as "Shakespeare in the Quad", TOOP put on Shakespeare in various locations on campus over the course of two show weeks.
Dario Fo's Accidental Death of an Anarchist, directed by Amanda Gillen ('20, T5 '21), was a semi-parody of the story of the death of the anarchist Giuseppe Pinelli, who was arrested in connection with a terrorist bombing in Milan, but fell to his death from a fourth-story window at police headquarters during the course of an interrogation.