Each year, the Department of Theatre offers a variety of production projects, covering a wide spectrum of genres and styles.
We are so excited for the 2022-2023 Production Program!
Participation in Department of Theatre Productions is open to all current Northeastern Students regardless of major. Please visit our Production Auditions Page for more information about auditioning or reach out to Production Coordinator Stephanie Hettrick about how to get involved.
Please visit our Tickets and Audience Information Page for more information about specific performances and to register for tickets.
EVERYBODY
Written by Brandon Jacobs-Jenkins
Directed by Melinda Lopez
Movement Design by Ilya Vidrin
Scenic Design by Baron E. Pugh
Costume Design by Rachel Erwin (’23)
Lighting Design by Elmer Martinez
Sound Design by Aubrey Dube
Rehearsals begin January 24
Performances February 22 – 26
EVERYBODY is a witty, powerful and uplifting journey to… The End. This ancient play is reimagined in a contemporary setting. Love, Family, Kinship, Beauty, God and an ensemble of other fellow travelers escort Everybody, as they discover what matters most in life. This theatrically innovative adaptation will surprise you at every turn.
Finalist for the 2018 Pulitzer Prize.
“This is theatre rather unlike anything you might have seen…unusual, unconventional and eye-opening…Everyman is no barrel of laughs, being a morality play about death. EVERYBODY tells the same tale, with equal emotional heft; but it is not only provocative and involving, it is also funny. Wildly funny, in fact.” —Huffington Post.
CONTENT WARNING: This production includes theatrical and evocative content that centers representations of end-of-life.
CAST List:
| Erin Solomon | Usher/God/Understanding |
| Jupiter Lê | Death |
| Sydney Love | Everybody |
| Tiana Mudzimurema | Love |
| Pavithra Rajesh | Girl/Time |
| Lily McCollum | Somebody/Friendship |
| Halle Brockett | Somebody/Kinship |
| Essence Brevard-Alouidor | Somebody/Cousinship |
| Naomi Kim | Somebody/Stuff |
| Ryan Martin | 1/Senses |
| Rachel Oppong | 2/Mind |
| Nicolas Fernandez | 3/Beauty |
| Mitra Sharif | 4/Strength |
PHAEDRA’S LOVE
Written by Sarah Kane
Directed by Antonio Ocampo-Guzman
Scenic, Lighting, & Projection Design by Oliver Wason
Associate Lighting Designer Makenna Harnden (’24)
Costume Design by Cassandra Queen
Sound Design by Emily Krane
Rehearsals begin February 14
Performances March 30 – April 9
Cast List:
| Jacob Barrett | King Theseus |
| Madeleine Elsea | Queen Phaedra |
| JP Darang | Prince Hippolytus |
| Josie Ojakli | Strophe |
| Erin Fitzpatrick | Royal Doctor |
| Antonio Weissinger | A Priest |
| Astrid Wuttke | Mob/Police |
| Erin Fitzpatrick | Mob/Police |
| Maerose Pepe | Mob/Police |
| Nazira Cisse | Mob/Police |
| Noah Braunstein | Mob/Police |
| Olivia Alberta | Mob/Police |
Sarah Kane’s radical reworking of Seneca’s classical tragedy of incest and unrequited lust is a bold and provocative revisioning set amidst some of the nastiest moments of the current British monarchy. One of the exponents of “in-yer-face” theatre, Kane was only 24 when she wrote this brief play as a commission for the Gate Theatre in London, but she already understood despair acutely. She was a tormented soul who wrote simply and bluntly about the world she saw around her, a world where violence and love were intertwined. She did what no one in her time managed to do: she spoke the unspeakable, delivering a brutal black comedy, a savage farce that challenges us to consider what is truly meaningful in our lives.
“Sarah Kane’s writing is both daring and accomplished” – Time Out
“Pure theatre or rather impure theatre: dirty, alarming, dangerous.” – Observer
COMPLETED PRODUCTIONS
POLAROID STORIES
Written by Naomi Iizuka
Directed by Greg Allen
See members of the cast discuss the production
Scenic Design by Janie Howland
Costume Design by Frances McSherry
Lighting Design by Abigail Wang
Sound Design by David Reiffel
Projections Design by Bella Ciaramitaro (Art & Design ’24)
Production Stage Manager: Nico Fernandez (’25)
Assistant Stage Manager: Lily McCollum (’25)
Rehearsals begin September 13
Performances October 13 – 23
CAST LIST
| D | Donovan Holt |
| Eurydice | Jada Saintlouis |
| Persephone | Shira Lederman |
| Orpheus | Winston Alcufrom |
| Philomela | Gabriela Hernandez |
| SKINHEADgirl | Marie Siopy |
| Narcissus | Finnigan McCormack |
| Echo | Erin Solomon |
| SKINHEADboy | Lou Conrad |
| G | Noah Braunstein |
A visceral blend of classical mythology and real-life stories told by street kids, Naomi lizuka’s Polaroid Stories journeys into a dangerous world where myth-making fulfills a fierce need for transcendence. Inspired in part by Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Polaroid Stories takes place on the outermost edge of a city, a way stop for dreamers, dealers, and desperadoes, a no-man’s land where runaways seek camaraderie, refuge, and escape. Serpentine routes from the street to the heart characterize the interactions in this spellbinding tale of young people pushed to society’s fringe.
“Polaroid Stories is a well written dark drama which speaks about some of the heavy issues in the lives of street youth in the city. This not a heartwarming story, but a dark social commentary from a very up close and personal viewpoint.”-Chicago Critic
Content Warning:
This performance includes adult, suggestive, and offensive language, mentions and depictions of drug abuse and addiction as well as references to sexual harassment and violence.
Polaroid Stories is produced by special arrangement with THE DRAMATIC PUBLISHING COMPANY of Woodstock, Illinois.
PROBLEM PLAY
Written & Directed by Erica Terpening-Romeo
Dramaturgy by Emily Trantanella
Scenic Design by Jenna McFarland Lord
Costume Design by Jessica Pribble
Lighting Design by Amanda Fallon
Sound Design by Anna Drummond
Production Stage Manager: Karen Gallagher (’25)
Rehearsals begin October 3
Performances November 10 – 20
Meet the Students of Thornbrooke Academy
CAST LIST:
| Mr. Knapp | Zeke D’Ascoli |
| Zo | Isabelle Bushkov |
| Dri | Devon Whitney |
| Megan | Rory O’Neill |
| Courtney | Ivy Kee |
| Lola | Mitra Sharif |
| Ivy | Abby Kesselman |
| Sloan | Trisha Barua |
| Max | Eve Davidson |
| Bobbi | Brenna Thornton |
At Thornbrooke Academy for Troubled Girls, a private reform school for teens in the New England countryside, students live a life of restriction and disempowerment. But things change one morning when nine students decide to take their punitive teacher hostage, and take control of their auxiliary classroom. In this tiny space they claim for themselves, the girls are able to throw off the strictures of Thornbrooke and exercise their own agency. But there’s one major problem: there’s no wifi, and nothing on the other side of that door but punishment for their crimes. So they make the strange and fateful choice to pass the time by rehearsing Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure, the only book in the room with enough copies to go around. Over the course of the next week, they camp out in their strange, cramped little kingdom, and grapple with justice, sex, leadership, and power through the pages of a problem play.
Content Warning:
This production includes adult, suggestive, and offensive language, mentions and depictions of violence, as well as references to self-harm, suicide, rape, and pedophilia.