Current Season

Spring 2012  

Senior Thesis Festival I

The Blind by Maurice Maeterlinck
Directed by Alexandra Clayton

The Long Goodbye by Tennessee Williams
Directed by Louisa Levy           

Gloryday by Michael John LaChiusa
Directed by Cody Haefner

Three senior theatre majors present their theses in directing, which run in repertory in the first of two installments of Senior Thesis Festival 2010.  Design, performances, and management by Barnard and Columbia theatre students.  Advised by Theatre Department faculty members Sharon Fogarty and Sandra Goldmark.

Thursday, April 12 – Saturday, April 14 at 7pm, 8pm, & 9pm
Minor Latham Playhouse, 118 Milbank Hall
Free! Reservations made through TIC, tic.columbia.edu

 
 
Senior Thesis Festival II

Solo Performances by Andrea Lopez, Kimberly Shepherd, Natalie Sikorski & Tara Sonin
Friday, April 27 at 8pm
Saturday, April 28 at 6pm

New Plays by Emma Goidel, Emily Nagel & Jacob Rice
Saturday, April 28 at 2pm, 3pm, and 5pm
Senior playwrights present new plays in staged readings for the thesis in playwriting advised by Theatre Department faculty member Sylvan Oswald; senior theatre majors perform original solo works for the thesis in solo performance under the advisement of Theatre Department faculty member Kyle deCamp.

Free! Reservations made through TIC, tic.columbia.edu

 

 

Previous productions this season:

The Egg-Layers
a new play by Lauren Feldman
directed by Alice Reagan

a co-presentation with New Georges
 
scenery  Sandra Goldmark
costumes  Roxana Ramseur
lighting  Lenore Doxsee
sound  Jane Shaw
dramaturgy  Emma Goidel
assistant direction  Yasmeen Jawhar
stage management  Lorenzo Landini
 
THURSDAY, MARCH 1 at 8PM
FRIDAY, MARCH 2 at 8PM
SATURDAY, MARCH 3 at 3PM & 8PM
 
Glicker-Milstein Theatre
LL200 Diana Center

For the inaugural production of New Plays at Barnard, the Theatre Department joins forces with downtown company New Georges to bring Lauren Feldman’s The Egg-Layers to the stage.  The Egg-Layers riffs on the Greek myth of Leda and the swan, and brings this disturbing story powerfully into the present: a performance of healing, revenge, and a search for the divine.  Directed by Assistant Professor of Professional Practice Alice Reagan. 

 

The Way of Water
by Caridad Svich
Directed by Lisa Campbell, BC '13
Dramaturg Abigail Feinberg, BC '13

A play about the aftermath of the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill and four ordinary people trying to stay afloat.
 
Act 1 will be performed as a reading, as part of an international commemoration of the disaster and an exploration of its effects on human health and the environment.
 
Followed by a panel discussion.
Tuesday, April 10
4pm
Free
 
Glicker Milstein Theater
LL200 Diana Center 
 
This staged reading of 2011 ACTA Francesca Primus Prize winning playwright Caridad Svich's new play The Way of Water is part of a nationwide effort to mark the two-year anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon BP oil spill in April. The Department of Theatre, Barnard College is joining an international group of theatres in presenting the play.
 
Caridad Svich’s other plays include 12 Ophelias, Iphigenia…a rave fable, and The House of the Spirits, based on the novel by Isabel Allende. The dramaturgy team for the international reading scheme for The Way of Water are Philadelphia-based dramaturge Heather Helinsky and New York City–based dramatist & dramaturge R. Alex Davis. 
 
The performance is directed by Lisa Campbell, BC '13, a junior studying music and English at Barnard College. Campbell studied theatre, dance, and voice in her native Boulder, Colorado, where she co-founded a non-profit youth theatre company, The Real Players. She was the assistant director for Sam Helfrich's production of the opera La bohème at the Manhattan School of Music and is currently directing the Columbia NOMADS' production of Sure by Cassandra Adair. This summer she will be assisting Tina Packer at the Colorado Shakespeare Festival on Richard III.
 
For more information about Caridad Svich’s The Way of Water, visit http://www.nopassport.org/thewayofthewater


All events sponsored by Barnard College Department of Theatre / Columbia University Major in Drama and Theatre Arts