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THEATRE and GUEST PRODUCTIONS
1972-2004

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(1) = Seminar (2) = Studio (3) = Workshop (4) = Guest Speaker or Special Event

1972-1973 (Regent Street Theatre)

• The Fantasticks
• The Apple Tree
• The Effects of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds (3)
• Dance Concert (4)
• Julian/The Servant of Two Masters: National Theatre Institute (4)

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1973-1974 (Regent Street Theatre)

• Spoon River Anthology (3)
• Don Juan and Don Pietro (3)
• Three Student One–Acts (3)
• Home Free

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1974-1975 (Regent Street Theatre)

• The House of Blue Leaves
• No Exit The
• Threepenny Opera
• Ballet Workshop (4)
• Skidmore Modern Dancers (4)
• Modern Dance Concert (4)
• Ballet Presentation (directed by Melissa Hayden and Juan Anduze) (4)
• Jerzy Grotowski (4)

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1975-1976 (This season was held in the Chapel)

• Dames at Sea
• No Place to Be Somebody
• Trojan Women

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1976-1977 (Opening of The Field House Theater)

• The Birthday Party
• Spoon River Anthology
• The Playboy of the Western World
• The Maids
• Dance Concert I (4)
• Dance Concert II (4)
• Birdbath/The Bear

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1977-1978 (The Field House Theater)

• The Skin of Our Teeth
• Ladyhouse Blues
• Carol Teitel in The Faces of Love (4)
• Cabaret Berlin (3)
• Cole Porter Revue (3)
• The Quintessence of Kern (3)
• John Brown’s Body
• Life is a Dream
• For Colored Girls (3)
• Radio Theatre (3)
• The Ugly Duckling (3)
• The People vs. Inez Garcia (3)
• Mime Piece (3)
• Mabou Mines Presents The Lost Ones/The B–Beaver Variations (4)
• Beginner’s Luck – Reality Theater of Boston (4)
• Summer Program in Ensemble Theatre (4)
• Erik Hawkins (4)
• Dance Concert I (4)
• Dance Concert II (4)

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1978-1979 (The Field House Theater)

• TAUDshow – Jerry Mayer (4)
• Playwrights’ Theatre (Hue, 1968/Dodgers/Aftermath/Three Flute Songs) (3)
• The Devil’s Disciple
• A Taste of Honey
• Throw Thunder at This House
• Twelfth Night
• Harold Clurman (4)
• The Bread and Puppet Theatre: Joan of Arc (4)
• The Medium
• Dance Concert (4)
• Sexual Perversity in Chicago (3)
• The Little Prince (3)
• Last of the Red Hot Lovers (3)
• Out of Our Father’ s House (3)
• Ed EmanuEl –The Jungle On Stage (4)
• Jail Cries (3)
• Evergreen Solitude: Linda Putnam (4)
• Atlanta Ballet Company (4)
• Billy the Kid/Sappho: Reality Theater (4)
• Summer Program in Ensemble Theatre (4)

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1979-1980 (The Field House Theater)

• The Caucasian Chalk Circle
• An Evening of One Acts (Act Without Words/The Dumbwaiter/Revue Sketches) (3)
• Mount Analogue: Thatre Research Associates(4)
• Sexual Perversity in Chicago (3)
• The Odd Couple (3)
• Rime of the Ancient Mariner (3)
• Peer Gynt (1)
• Chekhov One Acts (3)
• Lightning Rod Man (3)
• Playwrights’ Theatre (Love Gotta Come by Saturday Night/Sour Pickles and Good Luck to Me)
• Burt Bacharach and Hal David Revue (3)
• Career Opportunities in the Theatre Panel Discussion (4)
• The Medicine Show: The Frogs (4)
• Peter Arnott’s Antigone (4)
• Ruby Cohen (4)
• Harmonica (3)
• Dance Concert (4)
• Dance Trio (4)
• The Four Little Girls (4)
• Mary Barnes (3)
• Gallery Project (4)

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1980-1981 (The Field House Theater)

• Yentl (4)
• Vanaver Dance Caravan (4)
• Iowa Theatre Lab Workshop (4)
• Iowa Theatre Lab’s White Night (4)
• War in the Theatre (Bury the Dead/Dog on a Dancefloor/Lyman Lord
• Music Program (Torment/Realms of Combat/Mass for Patriots/ Warriors and Demagogues) (4)
• I Hear a Silent Cry (3)
• Panel Discussion: Graduate School Opportunities (4)
• Elaine Brody – Casting Director (4)
• Theatre Research Associates: Angel City (4)
• Vinie Burrows in Walk Together Children (4)
• Dance Concert (4)
• Teo Spychalski (Polish Theatre Lab) Intensive Workshop (4)
• An Evening with Amy Kabuki (3)
• Dr. Sarah Cohen on Isaac Bashevic Singer (4)
• Claude Kipnis Mime Theatre (4)
• Comings and Goings (3)
• Crayon Trilogy (3)
• Issac Bashevis Singer: The Cabbala and Modern Man (4)
• Alexandra Manu: Chekhov Workshop (4)

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1981-1982 (The Field House Theater)

• William Carter Dance Company (4)
• Bald Soprano (3)
• Theatre II (3)
• Death of the Old Man/Zoo Story (3)
• Sphere of Heaven
• Ball and Chain (1)
• Vinie Burrows in Sister! Sister! (4)

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1982-1983 (The Field House Theater)

• Filling Silence
• Joan Lombardi Dance Company (4)
• This Property is Condemned (3)
• Pat Carroll as Gertrude Stein (3)
• Eric Blau and Elly Stone Song Workshop (4)
• Dance Concert
• Getting Out
• The Devil’s Disciple
• Brecht on Brecht

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1983-1984 (The Field House Theater)

• Gemini (1)
• As You Like It (1)
• Cowboys #2
• Album
• My North Room (3)
• A Marriage Proposal (3)
• Portraits (3)
• Lovers and Other Strangers (3)
• Reminders (3)
• Four Scenes from Life (3)
• Stud Poker (3)
• It's Called the Sugarplum (3)
• Who’s on First (3)
• Dance Concert (4)
• Modern Dance Concert (4)
• For Better Not For Worse (4)
• Calamity Jane – Suzanne Baxtresser (4)
• Fruit of Zaloom – Paul Zaloom (4)
• Ivan Stoker Dixon Reading Dracula (4)

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1984-1985 (The Field House Theater)

• Spring Awakening (1)
• Camino Real (1)
• Mother Goose Unmasked
• Waiting for Godot (3)
• The Tiger/Stud Poker (3)
• Paper Bullets (3)
• Harlequin, Uplifted by Love (3)
• Bag Lady (3)
• Home Free (3)
• Bird Bath (3)
• Autobiography
• The Woolgatherer (3)
• The Only Woman General (reading by Colleen Dewhurst) (4)
• Dance Concert (4)
• Playwright Workshop Series: Lavonne Meuller, Nina Shengold, Laura Harrington (4)

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1985-1986 (The Field House Theater)

• Under Milkwood (1)
• The Three Sisters (1)
• Little Lizzy
• Sexual Perversity in Chicago
• The Lesson
• Key Exchange (3)
• America Passes By/Red Carnations (3)
• Dance Concert (4)
• Playwriting Workshop: Lavonne Meuller (4)
• An Evening with Judy Wyle (4)
• Marat/Sade (3)
• Ludlow Fair (3)
• The Little Prince (3)
• Cattle Call (3)
• Chamber Music (3)

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1986-1987 (Field House Theater & Janet Kinghorn Bernhard Theater)

• The Tooth of Crime The Insect Comedy (1)
• Spoon River Anthology (Opening of the Black Box)(1)
• U.S. 7 (1) Beyond Therapy (2)
• The Lover/This Property is Condemned (3)
• Candy and Shelly Go to the Desert (3)
• K2/Voices form High School (3)
• Little Malcom and His Struggle Against the Eunichs [Hail Scrawdyke!] (3)
• Savage Love (3)
• Echoes (3)
• Playwright Workshop: Laura Harrington (4)
• Arthur Miller – Frances Steloff Lecture (4)

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1987-1988 (Janet Kinghorn Bernhard Theater)

• Light Up the Sky (Opening of the Bernhard Theater) (1)
• New Voices (1)
• Faces – A Living Newspaper (2)
• Mario and the Magician (2)
• Miss Julie (3)
• Goldberg Street (3)
• The Blaspheming Moon (4)
• Comedy Night with Brain Trust (4)
• Say Goodnight, Gracie (3)
• The Song of Louise in the Morning (3)
• Forever Yours, Marie Lou (3)
• Aria Da Capo reading: Millay Colony (4)
• Symposium: Critical Issues in the American Theatre (4)
• Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You (3)

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1988-1989 (Janet Kinghorn Bernhard Theater)

• Woyzeck (1)
• La Ronde (1)
• A Different Moon (2)
• Pericles (2)
• Modigliani (3)
• A Lie of the Mind (3)
• Mourning Becomes Electra (3)
• Look Back in Anger (3)
• Cowboys #2 (3)
• The Tide (3)
• Debut of Ad-Liberal Artists (4)
• ’Dentity Crisis (3)
• Scene Nights

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1989-1990 (Janet Kinghorn Bernhard Theater)

• Red Noses (1)
• A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1)
• Antigone (2)
• An Odour of Chrysanthemums (2)
• Ends Untied (3)
• Sharon and Billy (3)
• Watermelon Boats (3)
• Attack of the Moral Fuzzies (3)
• The Four Note Opera/The Game of Chance
• Little Indignities (3)
• Shadow Passes Away (3)
• Coyote Ugly (3)
• The Bald Soprano (3)
• Child and the Moon Tree (4)
• National College Comedy Festival (4)
• The Four Note Opera/The Game of Chance (4)

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1990-1991 (Janet Kinghorn Bernhard Theater)

• The House of Bernarda Alba (1)
• The Persecution and Assassination of Jean- Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade (1)
• Holy Ghosts (2)
• The Mad Dog Blues (2)
• Keep Tightly Closed in a Cool Dry Place (3)
• The Firebugs (3)
• A Mean Chicken Casserole (3)
• Bent (3)
• Ivory Girl (3)
• Reckless (3)
• Whispers (3)
• National Lampoon’s Ahead of Its Time (4)
• Annual National College Comedy Festival (4)

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1991-1992 (Janet Kinghorn Bernhard Theater)

• Our Town (1)
• The Threepenny Opera (1)
• The Mudwoman (2)
• Equus (2)
• The Changeling (2)
• Romantic Trapezoid (3)
• Brilliant Traces (3)
• Cloud 9 (3)
• One for the Road/Mountain Language (3)
• Lone Star (3)
• Beirut (3)
• Sexual Perversity in Chicago (3)
• When I Say Ding (3)
• Theatre de la Jeune Lune Workshop (4)
• Annual National College Comedy Festival (4)

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1992-1993 (Janet Kinghorn Bernhard Theater)

• SITI: Orestes/ Dionysus (4)
• A Bright Room Called Day (1)
• Beckett: Works (Endgame/Krapp’s Last Tape/Footfalls) (1)
• Beckett Panel (Tom Bishop, Ruby Cohn, Jonathan Kalb) (4)
• Stuart E. Omans: Orlando Shakespeare Festival (4)
• Deborah Hay (4)
• Andrzej Wirth (German Culture After the Fall of the Berlin Wall) (4)
• Six Characters in Search of an Author (2)
• Action (2)
• Back Bog Beast Bait (2)
• The Marathon Years Project: Anne Bogart (2)
• AC/DC (3)
• Savage in Limbo (3)
• Snuff It (3)
• The Life and Times of Lewis Carroll (3)
• Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (3)
• Women of Manhattan (3)
• Women's Theatre Collective (4)
• SITI season: Orestes and Dionysus (4)
• Annual National College Comedy Festival (4)

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1993-1994 (Janet Kinghorn Bernhard Theater)

• Anatoly Smelyanski of the Moscow Art Theatre (4)
• SITI: Thhe Medium/The Tale of Lear (4)
• Playwrights’ Workshop: Sherry Kramer (The Wall of Water) (4)
• The Wall of Water (2)
• The Investigation of the Murder in El Salvador (1)
• The Annual College Comedy Festival (4)
• The Belle of Anherst with Mary Wadkins (4)
• Roundtable John (3)
• Bloomsday: Dublin, 16 June (1)
• Miss Information/Sincerity Forever (2)
• Mud (3)
• Super Godspell: The Music of Steel (3)
• Poe (3)
• The Ruffian on the Stairs (3)
• Seven Deadly Sins (3)
• Angel City (3)
• The Itty Bitty Theater Workshop (3)

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1994-1995 (Janet Kinghorn Bernhard Theater)

• SITI: Small Lives/Big Dreams (4)
• In the Boom Boom Room (2)
• The Tempest (1)
• Glitter City (4)
• National College Comedy Festival (4)
• Aquila Productions: (Wasps/Philoctetes/Macbeth) (4)
• The Physicists (2)
• The Seagull (2)
• The Women’s Theater Collective (3)
• Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris (1)
• Some Picnic (3)
• Uncommon Women and Others (3)
• The Cotton Candy Kingdom (3)
• The Conduct of Life (3)
• Witches (3)
• Top Girls (3)

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1995-1996 (Janet Kinghorn Bernhard Theater)

• Machinal (1)
• Two Precious Maidens Ridiculed (2)
• Execution of Justice (1)
• The Scarlet Letter (2)
• Jack, or The Submission (2)
• Waiting for Lefty (3)
• The Dumbaiter (3)
• Blue Window (3)
• This Property is Condemned (3)
• American Buffalo (3)
• Antigone (3)
• Guernica (3)

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1996-1997 (Janet Kinghorn Bernhard Theater)

• Faith’s Body/Danube (2)
• Tonight We Improvise (1)
• Carolee Schneeman (4)
• Deborah Hay (4)
• The Imp of Simplicity (2)
• The Trial (1)
• American Notes (3)
• Eleemosynary (3)
• No Exit (3)
• Burn This (2)
• The Cannibal Masque (3)
• Jungle of the Cities (3)
• True West (3)

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1997-1998 (Janet Kinghorn Bernhard Theater)

• The World is Round (2)
• A Slight Case of Murder (1)
• The Company of Angels (1)
• The Lover (3)
• Savage Love (3)
• Easter (3)
• The Bald Soprano (3)
• The Blood They Called Bethlehem (3)
• Voices From Theresienstadt – Bente Kahan (4)
• A Party for Boris (2)
• City of Bells (3)
• Kelly and Du (3)
• Three Ten minute Pieces Performed Under the Glory of God Under the Auspices #7 (3)

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1998-1999 (Janet Kinghorn Bernhard Theater)

• Jane Lapotaire Masterclass (4)
• The Caucasian Chalk Circle (2)
• Arcadia (1)
• Sanda Manu – Chekhov Scenes
• How I Learned to Drive (2)
• The Skin of Our Teeth (1)
• Stephanie Klapper, Casting Director (4)
• Scream Quietly (3)
• Valley Song (3)
• ’Night Mother (3)
• The American Dream (3)
• Take Two (3)
• Timepiece (3)

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1999-2000 (Janet Kinghorn Bernhard Theater)

• Vinegar Tom (2)
• Book of Tink (1)
• The Merchant of Venice (1)
• Two One Act Plays: Before Breakfast/Rodents and Radios (2)
• Anatoly Smelyanski of the Moscow Art Theatre (4)
• This Property is Condemned (3)
• No Exit (3)
• 4-H Club (3)
• Bringing it All Back Home (3)
• Philoctetes (3)
• Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love (3)

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2000-2001 (Janet Kinghorn Bernhard Theater)

• 2 x 2 (Guernica/Picnic on the Battlefield/The Leader/The Future is in Eggs or It Takes All Sorts to Make a World) (2)
• The Misanthrope (1)
• Camino Real (1)
• Shylock (4)
• Doggs Hanlet (2)
• The Little Prince (3)
• Lunch (3)
• The Physicists (3)
• Conduct of Life (3)
• Reverse Transcription (3)
• Pieces: A Laboratory of Romeo and Juliet (3)
• The Laramie Project (American Collegiate Premiere) (3)
• Reflections of Darkness

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2001-2002 (Janet Kinghorn Bernhard Theater)

• The Bed Bug (2)
• The Three Sisters (1)
• The Turn of the Screw (3)
• Scenes from a Marriage (3)
• Sister Mary Ignatius Explains it All for You (3)
• The Butterfly’s Evil Spell (2)
• The Comedy of Errors (1)
• I Will Bear Witness (4)
• Playwrights’ Lab: Divinity, Inc.
• The Other Shore (3)
• Moonlight (3)
• Seduced (3)
• I Am Woman (Senior Project)

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2002-2003 (Janet Kinghorn Bernhard Theater)

• The Mound Builders (2)
• The Madwoman of Chaillot (1)
• The Bacchae (3)
• Directing and Acting Student Projects (3)
• Spoon River Anthology (1)
• A Performance/Happening (2)
• Dutchman (3)
• Oleanna (3)
• This is Our Youth (3)
• Tales from Ovid (3)

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2003-2004 (Janet Kinghorn Bernhard Theater)

• The Life of Galileo (2)
• Fefu and Her Friends (1)
• Letter to a Student Revolutionary (3)
• Mud (3)
• Macbeth (1)
• Dracula (2)
• Women and Wallace (3)
• Plays by Samuel Beckett (3)
• The Lover (3)
• Trial by Error (Playwright Workshop)

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2004-2005 (Janet Kinghorn Bernhard Theater)

• Man with Bags (2)
• The Balcony (1)
• Broken Headlights (Final Movement/Incognito/Blood) (3)
• Deathwatch (3)
• Apocalypse (3)
• 99 Questions You've Always Wanted to Ask an African-American But Were Too Afraid for Fear They'd Break Their Foot Off in Your A** (4)
• Albanian Softshoe (2)
• Museum (1)
• Gorey Stories (3)
• A Man of His Word (3)
• Re:Present (3)

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2005-2006 (Janet Kinghorn Bernhard Theater)

• Alice and Kafka are Dead/Long Live the Rosenbergs - Dah Teatar and 7 Stages (4)
• Anatoly Smeliansky of the The Moscow Art Theatre and School (4)
• Burial at Thebes (1)
• Top Girls (2)
• Emerging Playwright Series
• The Baltimore Waltz (3)
• Sun, Stand Thou Still (3)
• 99 Questions You've Always Wanted to Ask an African-American But Were Too Afraid for Fear They'd Break Their Foot Off in Your A** (4)
• 18 to 21 (1)
• American Notes (2)
• No Exit (3)
• Radio Play (3)
• Tattoo Girl (3)
• My Name is Rachel Corrie (3)
• Taming of the Shrew - Shakespeare & Co. (6)

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2006-2007 (Janet Kinghorn Bernhard Theater)

• The Dream Play (1)
• An Enemy of the People (2)
• Blood Relative (1)
• Europe/Professor Taranne (2)
• The Death of Little Ibsen, Wakka Wakka Productions (4)
• Eve (3)
• The Edification of Eve (3)
• God and Poker (3)
• Overruled (3)
• A Fine Piano (3)
• A Silly Silverstein Show (3)
• All American Genderf*ck Cabaret (3)
• True Love Never Did Run Smooth (3)
• Muse (3)
• Art Off Its Ass (3)
• Hamletmachine (5)
• Street Theatre with the Living Theatre (4)
• Pretty Polly - Presented at the Tang Teaching Museum by Guest Artist Josh Chambers and Theater Students (4)
• Free Hour Theatre Series: Speed the Play, Poetry Reading, Dear Unknown, This is the First Time We've Met - exploring an encounter of chance music and movement, A puppet adaptation of The Devil Went Down to Georgia, Sisterhood,
  reading of Every Pilot - a new play, All Right, Here I Go, The Little Fish - A Shel Silverstein poem set to music featuring original shadow puppets.
• Stephanie Klapper, casting director (4)
• Educational Theatre Association Festival (4)
• Richard Danielpour, composer and opera performers from Margaret Garner (4)
• Clare Reidy of Shakespeare & Co. - Sonnet Workshop (4)
• Mac Wellman, Playwright
• Aaron Davidman and Ibrahim Miari of the Middle East Project Ensemble and The Traveling Jewish Theatre (4)
• The Merry Wives of Windsor - Shakespeare & Co. (6)
• bobrauschenbergusa - ART (6)

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2007-2008 (Janet Kinghorn Bernhard Theater)

• The Cherry Orchard (1)
• Aloha, Say the Pretty Girls (2)
• The Good Woman of Sezuan (2)
• Under Milk Wood (1)
• Every Pilot (3)
• Hidden in This Picture (3)
• Dirty Linen (3)
• Killer Joe (3)
• Old Saybrook (3)
• New Play Lab - three evening of nine new student plays (3)
• The Investigation of the Murder in El Salvador (3)
• The American Dream (3)
• Super Happy Fun Time Puppet Cabaret (3)
• Silly Silverstein Show (3)
• What Comes Next? (3)
• Educational Theatre Association Festival (4)
• Diaghelev - a professional workshop of a new play by David S. Singer (directed by Sheryl Kaller with Broadway actors Thom Sesma and Adam Greer) (4)

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2008-2009 (Janet Kinghorn Bernhard Theater) - TENTATIVE

• Richard II, directed by David Demke of Shakespeare & Co.(1)
• The Insect Play (2)
• Lary Opitz Project (1)
• Dinner with Friends (3)
• The Book of Liz (3)
• Luke Santy Project (3)
• Blood Wedding (3)
• The Exonerated (3)
• 30 in 60 (3)
• Intensive Shakespeare Combat Weekend (4)
• Shakespeare & Co. Othello (6)
• Shakespeare & Co. Hamlet (6)
• Alma Becker Project (5)
• Street Theater with the Living Theatre (4)
• What Do I Know About War? - Margo Lee Sherman (4)

(1) = Seminar  (2) = Studio  (3) = Workshop or Senior Project  (4) = Guest Speaker or Special Event  

(5) = Faculty Lab  (6) = Field Trip

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