Productions
The Faculty & Student Coreography Showcase
An evening of dance featuring choreographic works by Rowan University Dance faculty, students, and guest artists.
Faculty Coreographers: Dawn Marie Bazemore, Leslie Bush, Leslie Elkins, Paule Turner
Student Coreopgaphers: Angelina Forcella, Ava Alliegro, Bryce O'Donnell, Destiny Figuereo, Dominique Royal, Macie Prohammer, Maria Guldin, Sophie Creed
Production Manager: Paule Turner
Technical Director: Tom Fusco
Sound Tech/Designer/Photographer: David Cimetta
Sound Board Operator: Carly Robinson
Stage Manager: Maritza Baca
Assistant Stage Manager: Avery Hanson
Lighting Deisngers: Robert Thorpe, Sam Hiester, Emily Olson, Tyler Ludy, and Dylan Borlaug
Break Through the Unbreakable
Unleashed
Action
Action by Sam Shepard is a Rowan Lab production. Action follows two men and two women stuck in a house on Christmas after some implied disastrous event has taken place in the world. They attempt to cook a holiday dinner and perform other domestic rituals, from the mundane like hanging laundry, to the absurd like tap dancing and pretending to be bears.
Playwright: Sam Shepard
Director: Dawn McCall
Assist. Director: Danih Lael-Alexandre
Stage Manager: Sean Roberts
Assist. Stage Managers: Sadi Gomez and Aubreigh Newman
Lighting Designer: Sam Hiester
Photography: Valentina Giannattasio
Almost, Maine
ALMOST, MAINE by John Cariani presents a series of brief vignettes in which ordinary people experience magical, unexpected moments of romance, self-discovery, and emotional connection during a particularly vibrant display of the natural phenomenon of “the Northern Lights.” As the playwright notes in his published version of the script, “Almost Maine is a play about people who are normally very grounded but who have become very excited by love…and other extraordinary occurrences."
Director: Elizabeth Hostetter
Lighting Designer: Robert Thorpe
Asst. Lighting Designer: Sam Hiester
Photographer: Melissa Greenbury
Come Together
Come Together is a newly devised dance cabaret that offers a warning about uncompromising egos and encourages peaceful collaboration.
Director: Chris Roache & Leslie Elkins
Lighting Designer: Robert Thorpe
Asst. Lighting Designer/Programmer: Tyler Ludy
Asst. Lighting Designer/Draftsperson: Sam Hiester
Photo by Dylan Borlaug
Photo by Dylan Borlaug
Photo by Dylan Borlaug
Photo by Dylan Borlaug
The Tempest
Shakespeare’s fantastical tale of betrayal, exile, magic and revenge, told through a collision of dance and theatre.
Director: Ross Beschler
Lighting Designer: Robert Thorpe
Asst. Lighting Designer/Programmer: Dylan Borlaug
Asst. Lighting Designer/Draftsperson: Sam Hiester
Athena
A senior project, featuring theatre in the round seating.
"Mary Wallace and Athena are brave, and seventeen, and fencers, and training for the Junior Olympics. They practice together, they compete against each other, they spend their lives together. They wish they were friends." - ConcordTheatricals
Written by: Gracie Gardener
Director: Skyler Gonzalez
Stage Manager: Grace Hoeltje
Assistant Stage Manager: Rachel Grodek
Fencing Choreographer: Efrain Roman
Costume Designer: Arura Dekovitch
Sound Designer: Mike Landolfi
Lighting Designer: Sam Hiester
Props Manager : Sarah-Cate Ogden
Photographer: Grace Fox
Resilience
Resilience was a senior project which featured many different performances of dance.
Director: Sabrina Vargos
Light Designer: Sam Hiester
Photographer: Stephen Minder
The Trail To Oregon
The Trail to Oregon was a student-run play by Rowan Lab Theatre.
Director: Dave Martinek & Gian Verdose
Light Designer: Sam Hiester
Photographer: Grace Fox
Perfect Arrangment
Perfect Arrantmgnet was a student-run play by Rowan Lab Theatre.
Director: Elliot Callahan
Light Designer: Sam Hiester
Photographer: Grace Fox
The New Play Festival was a student-run short performance at Montclair State University that involved short plays, monologues, and dance.
Light Designer: Axiom Cutler
Assist. Light Designer: Ryan Randazzo
Board Op: Sam Hiester