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Theatre Productions

Each year, the Department of Theatre offers a variety of production projects, covering a wide spectrum of genres and styles.

 

Our 2024 – 2025 Production Program has now wrapped! While we’re hard at work planning next year’s program, take a look at our 2024-2025 photos below.

 

cover images of 2024/2025 Northeastern University Theatre Department productions
2024/2025 Northeastern University Theatre Department Productions

Participation in Department of Theatre Productions is open to all current Northeastern students regardless of major or year. Please visit our Production Auditions Page for more information about auditioning or reach out to our Production Manager, Cate Agis, about how to get involved.

Please visit our Tickets and Audience Information Page for more information about specific performances and to register for tickets.

OUR 24/25 PRODUCTIONS

Fall 2024 Productions

Sävë thë Whälës, etc.

A Play by David L. Caruso
Directed by Melinda Lopez

Performances October 23-27, 2024

Production Synopsis:
With the climate apocalypse officially declared, two Americans go on a tour of the last glacier on Earth. For the Canadian locals, the ice contains answers, a key to the future. For the tourists, it is a glimpse back in time, before their world irrevocably changed. Sävë thë Whälës, etc. is an environmental comedy about the importance of community, home, and happiness during crisis.

PRODUCTION PROGRAM

Cast List
Lyra…………….NAZ OZTURK
Morgan……….BRENNA THORNTON
Robin………….DANIEL LOPEZ
Pierre………….MER BROWN
Pony……………EMILY ROSAKRANSE
Todd……………ANTONIO WEISSINGER

Twelfth Night

Written by William Shakespeare
Directed by Antonio Ocampo-Guzman

Performances: November 14 – 24, 2024

Production Synopsis: 
“Prove true imagination, O prove true!” – Act III, Scene IV

Shakespeare’s comedy of mistaken identity. Viola thinks her brother is dead; he thinks that she is dead. Everyone thinks that she is her brother; everyone thinks that her brother is her. And everyone is in love with the wrong person. Imprudent antics ensue.

PRODUCTION PROGRAM

Cast List
Duke Orsino…………………EDWIN JOHNSON
Countess Olivia…………….GABRIELA HERNÁNDEZ
Sir Toby Belch………………MICHAEL MUNDIA
Sir Andrew Aguecheek…..LIAM PRENDERGAST
Viola…………………………….NAOMI KIM
Sebastian……………………..JOHN FU
Malvolio………………………NOAH BRAUNSTEIN
Curio……………………………OLIVIA ALBERTA
Valentine……………………..NATALIE DION
Maria…………………………..ABBY BARTON
Feste……………………………ASHLEY DiLORENZO
Antonio……………………….CASEY BENZING

Sävë thë Whälës, etc. (Photos by Cristian Alvarez Maldonado)

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Twelfth Night (Photos by Cristian Alvarez Maldonado & Justin Lahue)

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Fall '24 Studio Theatre Timelapse

Spring 2025 Productions

Fefu and Her Friends

Written by María Irene Fornés
Directed by Dani Snyder-Young

Performances: February 19 – 23, 2025

Production Synopsis:
Fefu and Her Friends is one of the most influential – and invisible – plays of the 20th century. An innovation of immersive theater, Cuban-American playwright María Irene Fornés’s feminist comedy-drama allows the audience to be a fly on many walls in this unconventional tale of eight friends gathering at a New England country home to plan a fundraiser. The production will use a dystopian framing device to align the gender politics of the world depicted in the play (which premiered in 1977) with our contemporary gender politics.

PRODUCTION PROGRAM

Cast List
Fefu……………………ANNALIESE FAGAN
Cindy………………….LILY MCCOLLUM
Christina……………..ZOEY ROTH
Julia……………………KATHRYN SILVA
Emma…………………ISADORA SAFFRON SYLVIA-RIBEIRO
Paula…………………..HANNAH ARAHIM
Sue……………………..RACHEL SHADDAI OPPONG
Cecilia…………………NATALIE DION
House Manager…….RYAN CORBIN MCGEEHAN
Tour Guide…………..OLIVIA ALBERTA
Tour Guide…………..ABBY BARTON
Tour Guide…………..EMILY SKIPPER
Tour Guide…………..NAOMI KIM

3RD ANNUAL CAPSTONE PROJECTS FESTIVAL

The Department of Theatre is thrilled to present a festival of original works created by some of our graduating students for their Capstone Projects.

PRESENTATIONS: March 13 – 15, 2025 in Ryder Theatre Lab (Ryder Hall 334)

PRODUCTION PROGRAM

PROJECTS: 

Capstone Projects Festival Coordinator: Jeje Dennis

Aftermath by Karen Gallagher
There are countless stories about revolutions and toppling dystopias. But what comes next? Set in the fictional city-state of Asten in the wake of a dictatorship-toppling revolution, Aftermath follows the lives of two former revolutionaries as they grapple with this new world and follow drastically different paths that threaten so upend their friendship.

Confirm Your Doubts by Antonio Weissinger
Confirm Your Doubts is a newly written play about growth and a journey towards finding what one truly wants. It explores a family’s relationship to Catholicism and faith, and how their faith changes family dynamics for better or for worse. When Ivy Vecchiarelli is about to get confirmed into the Catholic faith, she realizes her doubts about her belief in God. How will these doubts impact the Vecchiarelli family, and will Ivy go through with the confirmation?

Club Angel by Sarah Waggoner
Club Angel is a multimedia exploration of queer art’s legacy within community spaces inspired by Club Kids. Club Kids were queer innovators, exploring taboo aesthetics with eccentric looks. How did queer youth of the 1990s use cultural practices to create utopian spaces of belonging? How is this legacy present in today’s queer youth and future? Through a photo and video exhibition, Club Kids aesthetics will be placed in modern queer spaces, experimenting with space, movement, and intimacy. The exhibition combines prints, projections, and textiles, reflecting on where this art originated and building upon it with visions of a queer future.

25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee

Book by Rachel Sheinkin
Music & Lyrics by William Finn
Conceived by Rachel Feldman
Directed by Brian Demar Jones

Performances: March 27 – April 6
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Production Synopsis:
An eclectic group of six mid-pubescents vie for the spelling championship of a lifetime. While candidly disclosing hilarious and touching stories from their home lives, the tweens spell their way through a series of (potentially made-up) words, hoping never to hear the soul-crushing, pout-inducing, life un-affirming “ding” of the bell that signals a spelling mistake. Six spellers enter; one leaves a champion! At least the losers get a juice box.
Cast List
William Barfee……………………LIAM PRENDERGAST
Olive Ostrovsky………………….GABRIELLA PURVIS
Chip Tolentino…………………..REESE CANTU
Leaf Coneybear………………….JUDE RILEY
Logainne “Schwartzy”
Schwartzandgrubenierre…….PAIGE HERMAN
Marcy Park……………………….EDRIENNE HESTER
Mitch Mahoney…………………DONOVAN HOLT
Douglas Panch………………….NOAH BRAUNSTEIN
Rona Lisa Peretti………………BRENNA THORNTON

Fefu and Her Friends (Photos by Ashley DiLorenzo)

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3rd Annual Capstone Projects Festival (Photos by Chloe (Ceci) Chin)

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Spelling Bee (Photos by Ashley DiLorenzo)

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Spelling Bee (Photos by Ashley DiLorenzo)

Tickets, Auditions, & Resources

Production Handbook

This Production Handbook promotes constructive communication and offers easily accessible information for all students involved in our Production Program. It also provides an overview of the various roles in the production process, explaining and clarifying the expectations and responsibilities of each.

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