2001-2005
The Serpent
Author: Jean-Claude van Itallie
Directors: Joanne Klein & Mark A. Rhoda
“Dancing 2004, a student-faculty dance concert”
Conceived & directed by: Meredith Taylor
The Secret Affairs of Mildred Wild
Author: Paul Zindel
Director: Alexis Hartwick (an SMP main stage production)
“The Road to Kyoto!, a kabuki-style comedy in English”
Author: Ikku Jippensha (based on his book The Shank’s Mare, or Hizakurige)
Director: Holly A. Blumner
2003-2004
The Miser
Author: Molière
Director: Michael Ellis-Tolaydo
Old Times
Author: Harold Pinter
Director: Mark A. Rhoda
Don Juan Comes Back from the War
Author: Ödön von Horváth
Director: Joanne Klein
900 Dreams
Written and directed by: Sharon A. Wyrrick
2002-2003
The Circus of the Possibilitarians
Author: Peter Schumann & Bread and Puppet Theater
Director: Peter Schumann
The Skin of Our Teeth
Author: Thornton Wilder
Director: Merideth Taylor
Delicious Poison (Busu), Tricked by a Rhythm (Yokiboe) – classical Japanese kyôgen;
“Black Tuesday” – contemporary noh-style play written by SMCM theater students in tribute to those affected by the events of 9/11
Director: Holly A. Blumner
Love’s Labours Lost
Author: William Shakespeare
Director: Michael Ellis-Tolaydo
2001-2002
The Laramie Project
Author: Moisés Kaufman and Members of Tectonic Theater Project
Director: Joanne Klein
“2001: A Dance Odyssey, a student-faculty dance concert”
Conceived & directed by: Merideth Taylor
The House of Blue Leaves
Author: John Guare
Director: Mark A. Rhoda
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
Author: Stephen Sondheim (music and lyrics), Burt Shevelove & Larry Gelbart (book)
Director: Lofty Durham, with musical direction by Jeffrey Silberschlag
1997-2001
Our Country’s Good (reprise)
Author: Timberlake Wertenbaker
Director: Drew Kahl (guest artist)
Naga-Mandala: Play with a Cobra
Author: Girish Karnad
Director: Merideth Taylor
Signs of Life
Author: Joan Schenkar
Director: Alana Smith (an SMP main stage production)
Agamemnon
Author: Aeschylus
Director: Michael Ellis-Tolaydo
1999-2000
“A Shakespeare Potpourri”
Conceived & directed by: Michael Ellis-Tolaydo
“Crossroads: On Common Ground,” an original collaborative performance work
Conceived & directed by: Merideth Taylor & Andre Perry
Weldon Rising
Author: Phyllis Nagy
Director: Joanne Klein
Our Country’s Good
Author: Timberlake Wertenbaker
Director: Drew Kahl (guest artist)
1998-1999
Widows
Author: Ariel Dorfman, in collaboration with Tony Kushner
Director: Joanne Klein, with an original score by SMCM student Brian J. Gundersdorf
“SMC Dance ’98, a student-faculty dance concert”
Conceived & directed by: Merideth Taylor
On the Third Day (a passion play)
Author: Joseph Kline
Director: Michael Ellis-Tolaydo
Lysistra / Marisol, two plays in rep
Author: Aristophanes / Jose Rivera
Director: Amy Couchoud / Benjamin Wyskida
1997-1998
Blood Brothers
Author: Willy Russell (music, lyric, & book)
Director: Michael Ellis-Tolaydo
Ardèle
Author: Jean Anouilh
Director: Joanne Klein
The America Play
Author: Suzan-Lori Parks
Director: A. Lorraine Robinson (guest artist)
FOB
Author: David Henry Hwang
Director: Merideth Taylor
1993-1997
Julius Caesar
Author: William Shakespeare
Director: Michael Ellis-Tolaydo
In the Burning Darkness
Author: Antonio Buero-Vallejo
Director: Sharon A. Wyrrick (guest artist)
The One-Act Festival, inc. “Soothsayer in Grey” (Vincent Rozanskas), “The Whole Shebang” (Rich Orloff)
Angels in America: Part I: Millennium Approaches
Author: Tony Kushner
Director: Joanne Klein
1995-1996
Happy End
Author: Elisabeth Hauptmann (book), Bertolt Brecht (lyrics), Kurt Weill (music)
Director: Mark A. Rhoda, with musical direction by Larry Vote
“SMC Dance ’95”
Conceived & directed by: Merideth Taylor
In Perpetuity Throughout the Universe / Etta Jenks, two plays in repertory
Author: Eric Overmyer / Marlane G. Meyer
Director: Michael Ellis-Tolaydo / Joanne Klein
1994-1995
Tartuffe
Author: Molière
Director: Michael Ellis-Tolaydo
fefu and her friends
Author: Maria Irene Fornes
Director: Joanne Klein
The Physicists
Author: Friedrich Durrenmatt
Director: Mark A. Rhoda
“The Bigger Picture, a sequel”
Conceived & directed by: Merideth Taylor
1993-1994
The Skin of Our Teeth
Author: Thornton Wilder
Director: Merideth Taylor
Cloud Nine
Author: Caryl Churchill
Director: Joanne Klein
The One-Act Festival, inc. A Tumba Abierta (Open Graves, Alfonso Vallejo), “The Seven Days of Ruth” (Walter J.J. Bartas), “Shrinks” (Steve Wannall), “Heads Against the Wall” (Kimberly Owens)
“Waterways: a butoh performance”
Conceived & directed by: Joan Laage (guest artist)
1989-1993
A Stampede of Zebras
Author: Robert G. Martin
Director: Michael Ellis-Tolaydo
Execution of Justice
Author: Emily Mann
Director: Joanne Klein
“In My Time”
Author: Merideth Taylor (adapted from In My Time When I Was Coming Along, by Andrea Hammer)
Director: Merideth Taylor
Macbeth
Author: William Shakespeare
Director: Michael Ellis-Tolaydo
1991-1992
The Colored Museum
Author: George C. Wolfe
Director: Derek Anson Jones
She Stoops to Conquer
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
Director: Merideth Taylor
Reckless
Author: Craig Lucas
Director: Michael Ellis-Tolaydo
The Threepenny Opera
Author: Bertolt Brecht (book & lyrics),Kurt Weill (music)
Director: Joanne Klein, with musical direction by Larry Vote
1990-1991
Hamlet
Author: William Shakespeare
Director: Michael Ellis-Tolaydo
The Crucible
Author: Arthur Miller
Director: Michael Ellis-Tolaydo
The One-Act Festival, inc. Ohio Impromptu (Samuel Beckett), A Need for Brussel Sprouts (Murray Schisgal), “Lamia” (Stephen Fedasz & Jason Ellis), Titanic (Christopher Durang), Silence (Harold Pinter), and “The Big Picture” (Merideth Taylor)
As Is
Author: William M. Hoffman
Director: Michael Ellis-Tolaydo
The Song of the Lusitanian Bogey
Author: Peter Weiss
Director: Joanne Klein
1989-1990
Twelfth Night
Author: William Shakespeare
Director: Michael Ellis-Tolaydo
Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You
Author: Christopher Durang
Director: Michael Ellis-Tolaydo
Medea: A Noh Cycle Based on the Greek Myth
Author: Carol Sorgenfrei
Director: Joanne Klein
The Dining Room
Author: A.R. Gurney, Jr.
Director: Joanne Klein
Richard III
Author: William Shakespeare
Director: Michael Ellis-Tolaydo