Jack Dugan Carpenter

Bell, Book and Candle
by John Van Druten
directed by Jack Dugan Carpenter

Saint Sebastian Players
October - November, 2024

“… expertly directed…” Around the Town Chicago

In this lighthearted 1950s romantic comedy, Gillian Holroyd, an actual witch, casts a spell on an unattached publisher, and he falls in love with her. When she realizes that she is falling in love herself, Gillian faces a dilemma: She will lose her considerable powers if she acts on her feelings. Will love prevail?

CAST:

Gillian: Claire Rutkowski (she/her)

Shep: Jered Becker (he/him)

Nicky: Sean Michael Barrett (he/him)

Auntie Queenie: Lauren Miller (any pronouns)

Redlitch: David Feiler (he/him)

CREATIVES:

Director: Jack Dugan Carpenter (he/him)

Stage Manager: Lisa Ramos (she/her)

Set Designer: Emil Zbella (he/him)

Costume Designer: Elizabeth Monti (she/her)

Sound Designer: Sean Smyth (he/him)

Props: Paula Kenar (she/her)

Intimacy: MJ Deamon (she/her)

Producers: Jill Chukerman Test (she/her) and Jim Masini (he/him)

PR/Media- Jill Chukerman-Test (she/her)

Social Media - Valerie Gerlock (she/her)

Scenic Artist - Pat Gager (she/her)

Production photos: Sean Smyth (he/him)

Barefoot in the Park
by Neil Simon
directed by Jack Dugan Carpenter

Saint Sebastian Players April 19-May 12, 2024

CAST

Corie - Alexandra Cross

Ethel - Jill Chukerman-Test

Paul - Joshua P. Wright

Victor - Donaldson Cardenas

Telephone Repair Man - Christian Davis Aldridge

Delivery Girl - Maddie Hillock

CREATIVES

Co-producer - Lauren Miller

Co-producer - Jim Masini

Director - Jack Dugan Carpenter

Stage Manager - Lisa M. Ramos

Lighting Designer- John Jacobsen

Costumes - Robert-Eric West

Sound Designer - Sean Smyth

Set Designer - Emil Zbella

Props Designer - Paula Kenar

Intimacy / Movement- MJ Deamon

PR/Media- Jill Chukerman-Test

Social Media - Valerie Gerlock, Beth Bruins

Scenic Artist - Pat Gager

Production Photos - Valerie Gerlock

When You Awake You Will Remember Everything!
by Gregory Peters
directed by Jack Dugan Carpenter

The Plagiarists, February-March, 2024
The Edge Theater Off-Broadway

A superhero called The Titan is exiled by his arch-foes to another dimension, a monstrous evil makes a final gambit to destroy the universe, supervillains give interviews, a comics publisher finds out her missing brother may be alive, a henchman betrays his boss, and a therapist encounters a unique case: a man who wakes from a coma and claims to be a superhero named "The Titan." It’s up to a fiendish super scientist, a martial arts master who names her kicks, a petty crook who can see the future, and a man who doesn’t believe any of it is real to get over themselves and save the universe! That is, of course, if any of it is real. Drawn from a love of comics and paired with a keen sense of the theatrical, this one will surely knock the socks off of audiences of all kinds!

CREATIVES

Playwright - Gregory Peters (he/him)
Director - Jack Dugan Carpenter (he/him)
Stage Manager - Emily Szymanski (she/her)
Set/Props Designer/Technical Director - Andy Cahoon (he/him)
Sound Designer - Devon Rodlund (he/him)
Composer- Hunter Leach (he/him)
Costume Designer - Cindy Moon (she/her)
Lighting Designer - Ellie Humphreys (she/her/they/them)

CAST

Actor 1 (The Titan) - Bryan Breau (he/him)
Actor 2 (The High Heel, Sarah) - Julia Stemper (she/her)
Actor 3 (Fiendish, Frankie, Heavy 2) - Katie Bevil
Actor 4 (Nurse, Dusty Scribbler, Spiritual Advisor, Buddy) -Tess Galbiati (she/her)
Actor 5 (Doctor, Split Second, Heavy 1) - Stephen McClure (he/him)
Actor 6 (Psychiatrist, Heavy 3) - Joe Feliciano (he/him)

UNDERSTUDIES

Actor 1 (The Titan) - Andre Colin (he/him)
Actor 2 (The High Heel, Sarah) -Theresa Liebhart (she/her)
Actor 3 (Fiendish, Frankie, Heavy 2) - Paul Kastner (he/him)
Actor 4 (Nurse, Dusty Scribbler, The Spiritual Advisor, Buddy) - Katharine Jordan (she/her)
Actor 5 (Doctor, Split Second, Heavy 1, voice of The Narrator, Nihilistus) - Bill Daniel (he/him)
Actor 6 (Psychiatrist, Heavy 3) - Markley Bortz (she/her)

Show image by Sir Pea Green Studios

Production photos by Joe Mazza of BraveLux

CHARLEY’S AUNT
by Brandon Thomas
February 21, - March 15, 2020
Saint Sebastian Players, Chicago

College chums Jack and Charley invite their young ladies to meet Charley’s wealthy aunt from Brazil, who will serve as their chaperone. But when she cancels her visit at the last minute, the millionaire aunt sends the boys into cataclysmic confusion. What do they do now? They solve the problem by drafting their feckless Oxford undergrad pal into a black satin skirt, bloomers and wig.

Newcity Stage Review
Windy City Review

CAST

Jack Chesney Garrett Wiegel
Charley Wykeham Joshua Paul Wright
Brassett Russ Gager
Sir Francis Chesney David R. Feiler
Kitty Verdun Lizzie Williams
Amy Spettigue Stephanie Price
Stephen Spettigue Eric S. Prahl
Donna Lucia d'Alvadorez Valerie Gerlock
Ela Delahay Megan Peters
Lord Fancourt Babberley Sean Michael Barrett

CREATIVES

Director Jack Dugan Carpenter
Stage Manager Kaeley Osterman
Sound Designer Isaac Mandel
Lighting Designer John Jacobsen
Producer Jill Chukerman
Producer Jim Masini
Set Designer Emil Zbella
Props Designer Paula Kenar
Props Assistant Brittany Eude
Costume Designer Robert-Eric West
Assistant Director/Dramaturg Wyatt Kent
Associate Producer/ASM John Austin
Casting Consultant Steve Walanka

Münsterspiel is in ROLLING STONE!

"... all your punk rock hopes and dreams are bursting into brilliant flame in the German city of Münster..."
--Rolling Stone, "Real Life Rock Top Ten," Greil Marcus

Read the write up by Jon Langford
(scroll to #8 to read about Münsterspiel):

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“…Munsterspiel encourages its audience to think differently...in Dadaist/Surrealist style, it pokes fun at its own "truthiness" with anachronisms, time travel, intersection of different space/time realities and characters, and an ominous, unseen, hegemonic force that exists to squelch all variation, revolt, or alternative to its overwielding power…”
--Windy City Times

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”…the anachronistic elements – not just the time travel, but the visions of future inventions and words that plague multiple characters – contribute to a heightened, satirical, and almost Brechtian feel that works quite well.”
-- PerformInk
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What if enough people decided to disagree about the rules of the universe?

From the untethered mind of artistic director Gregory Peters comes Münsterspiel: a true-ish tragicomedy about the Anabaptist takeover of the city of Münster in 1534. Pushing the Protestant Reformation to full-on revolution, their communist theocracy held out against a year-and-a-half long siege. Inspired in part by Greil Marcus’s Lipstick Traces, Munsterspiel is a dadaist romp through the Reformation Alamo, a time travel odyssey through what-could-have-been and what-could-come, and a prayer for the end of the world.

FEBRUARY 14 - MARCH 16, 2019
Berger Park Coach House
6205 N Sheridan Rd

CAST

JOE - Tony Kaehny*
JOHN - Sean McGill
BERNIE - Joe Feliciano (Joeletariat Feliciano)
NIPS - Stephen McClure*
ARTEMIS - Jessica Saxvik*
JANE - Elaine Small*
HENRY/ABBOT/ULRICH - Rae Hamilton-Vargo
DIVARA - Amy Jean Johnson
WALDECK - Patrick Zielinski
ALFRED/HILLE/GIRL - Grace Elaine Hutchings
PRIEST/GRAES - Zach Gossett

CREATIVES

Playwright: Gregory Peters*
Director: Jack Dugan Carpenter*
Assistant Director: Wyatt Kent
Stage Manager: Becky Bishop*
Production Managers: Emma Cullimore*/ Sara Jean McCarthy*
Set/Props Designer: Erin Gautille
Technical Director/Scenic Artist: Melissa Schlesinger*
Costume Designer: Emma Cullimore*
Composer and Sound Designer: Stephen Gawrit
Lighting Designer: John Jacobsen
Violence and Intimacy Designer: Tristin Hall

Understudies:
Jack Dugan Carpenter*
Christina Casano*
Zachary Finch
Katharine Jordan
Haleigh Kent
Daniela Martinez
Gregory Peters*
Bruce Phillips
Erik Schiller

* - is the mark of a Plagiarist
Photography by Joe Mazza of BraveLux
Image by Elissa Shortridge Jacobsen

SOME LIKE IT RED
by Gregory Peters

FEBRUARY 15 - MARCH 17
at The Berger Park Coach House
6205 N Sheridan Rd
 

Take "Some Like It Hot" and Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, crush them under the boot-heel of the totalitarian state; add 80s songs, corny jokes, and explosions (of both the romantic and the literal kind) and you'll start to get the flavor of Some Like It Red.

Another shipwreck off the coast of Illyria brings ashore a fresh batch of castaways in need of disguises. Except its 1985, and the land once known as Illyria is now the Albanian Peoples Republic, so when a 3-woman cruise ship ensemble washes up and witnesses the secret police in action, they must disguise themselves to survive. And thats just the beginning of all the disguises, doubling, and deception.
 

Cast:

VIOLET: Jessica Saxvik
ROSE: Christina Casano
DAISY: Sara Jean McCarthy
COMMANDER OSMANI: Tony Kaehny
LIEUTENANT MALUSH: Stephen McClure
CAPTAIN MEKSI: Bryan Breau
PETER: Derik Marcussen
MAJLINDA: Julia Stemper
OLGA: Elaine Small
RESISTANCE LEADER/DUSSEX: Bill Daniel

Production Team:
Director: Jack Dugan Carpenter
Assistant Director: Samantha Decker
Stage Manager: Becky Bishop
Production Managers: Gregory Peters/Emma Cullimore
Set Designer: Pauline Oleksy
Costume/Props Designer: Emma Cullimore
Sound Designer: Isaac Mandel
Lighting Designer: John Jacobsen
Violence Consultant: Tristin Hall
Technical Director: Danny Drust
Show image by Elissa Shortridge Jacobsen

Production photos by Joe Mazza of BraveLux

The Epic of Gilgamesh As Told By Mr. George Smith, Associate Curator for the British Museum (deceased)

by Gregory Peters*

presented by The Plagiarists

The story of humanity’s oldest story and the man who discovered it. An epic of ancient hubris, Victorian chauvinism, heroic journeys, mythical monsters, the meaning of life, the inevitability of death, archaeological politics, disgruntled gods, language barriers, the Great Flood, and the universality of human experience.

Featuring:
GEORGE SMITH: Bryan Breau
GILGAMESH: Raef Carter
THE ARK BUILDER: Joe Feliciano
MARY SMITH & Others: Jessica Saxvik*
SIR RAWLINSON & Others: Peter Ash
ENKIDU & Others: Daniel Chenard
MATTHEWSON & Others: Stephen McClure
EDWIN ARNOLD & Others: Isaac Samuelson
RIMAT-NINSUN & Others: Julia Stemper*
SHAMHAT & Others: Emily Green
PROFESSOR ENEBERG & Others: Bill Daniel
SHAMASH & Others: Graham Emmons

Production Team:

Director: Jack Dugan Carpenter*

Assistant Director: Samantha Decker
Stage Manager: Christina Casano*
Production Managers: Greg Peters*/Sara Jean McCarthy*
Set Designer/TD: Derik Marcussen*
Costume/Props Designer: Emma Cullimore*
Sound Designer: Stephen Gawrit
Lighting Designer: John Jacobsen

Publicity Design by Elissa Shortridge

* = the mark of a Plagiarist

October 7th - 29th, 2016

Berger Park Coach House

Production Photos by Joe Mazza at BraveLux

by Susan Hill; Adapted by Stephen Mallatrat

A lawyer, obsessed with a curse that he believes has been cast over him and his family by the specter of a woman in black, engages a skeptical young actor to help him tell his terrifying story and exorcise the fear that grips his soul. It all begins innocently enough, but then, as they reach further into his darkest memories, they find themselves caught up in a world of eerie marshes and moaning winds. Stephen Mallatratt’s ingenious stage adaptation of Susan Hill's ghost story, a brilliantly successful study in atmosphere, illusion and controlled horror, has been running in London’s West End for more than 25 years.

CAST
Joe Feliciano as the Actor
Ian Maryfield as Kipps
Billie Rye Bryant as The Woman in Black

CREATIVES

Directed by Jack Dugan Carpenter
Steven Walanka, production manager
Jim Masini, technical director
Emil Zbella, set designer
Emma Cullimore, costume designer
Charles Blunt, lighting designer
Nancy Pollock, props designer
Christi Mueller, sound designer
Robert-Eric West, makeup designer
Megan Chaney, stage manager

April 29-May 22 2016

Photos by Charles Blunt
 

by Robert Stewart

In these saints will burn, Joan of Arc’s familiar story is re-imagined as a world full of giant puppets, poetry, a talking crow, and a trio of saints who may be less benevolent than they appear as they work to secure Joan’s place in history. Equal parts farce, war epic, and tragedy, ridiculous and sublime, these saints will burn examines free will, myth-making, human nature, and the morality of violence.

The Den Theatre
March 21-April 18th, 2015
 

these saints will burn - A Tale of Joan of Arc
by Robert Stewart

Cast:

JOAN - Sara Jean McCarthy*
ST. CATHERINE - Jessica Saxvik*
ST. MARGARET - Melissa Reeves
ST. SEBASTIAN - Julia Stemper
BASTARD R - Sean McGill
JEAUX THE CROW - Tony Kaehny*

Production Team:

Directed by Jack Dugan Carpenter*
Stage Manager - Christina Casano
Set/Props - Kailee Tomasic
Costumes - Emma Cullimore*
Lights - John Jacobsen
Sound - Melissa Schlesinger*
Puppets - Andrew Marchetti

Assistant Director - Samantha Decker
Master Electrician - Derik Marcussen*
Production Manager - Gregory Peters*
Additional Props Creation - James Snyder*
Production Intern - Syd Eberly

Photos by Joe Mazza of BraveLux
*denotes a Plagiarist

Living Canvas Rx gets its name from the symbol for prescription, which originated as an abbreviation of the Late Latin verb recipe, the imperative form of recipere  "to take." All of us are drug users in some way. If you watch TV, every commercial break mentions at least once to ask your doctor if some medicine is right for you. The radio yammers about free trials and studies. We get fixes from the local drugstore, from basement gardens, or street corner entrepreneurs. We seek things that make us happy  sex, religion, television, chocolate, marijuana, wine, cocaine.  What does it mean that this is such a universal search? And what makes one person's medicine more socially acceptable than another's?

Cast:

Hope Barnes

Miles Benjamin Barrett

Katie Carnes

Laura Elleseg

Cassandra Hannan

Nicole Jordan

Isaac Samuelson

Ben Schlotfelt

Sarah Smith

Kelly Steik

Production team:  

Lisa Adams and Jack Dugan Carpenter (co-directors)

Melissa Schlesinger (sound designer)

John Jacobsen (lighting designer)

Pete Guither (projections designer)

Miona Lee (movement consultant)

Kit Ryan (stage manager)

August 1 - 17, 2014

Photos by Pete Guither

by Jessica Wright Buha*

Music by Mallory Nees

WAR SONG is a a music-and-poetry-suffused look at the broken promises of the American Civil War through the eyes of Sgt. Maj. Christian Fleetwood, scholar, father, and highly decorated veteran of the United States Colored Infantry.

In 1895 Baltimore, Christian Fleetwood makes the final touches on a speech defending the rights of African-Americans to serve in the military, to be given at the upcoming Cotton States Expo in Atlanta. But his wife, Sara, has bitter objections to his journey, so Fleetwood conjures up the spirits of Abraham Lincoln and Walt Whitman to encourage him, as "storytellers, all--lovers of song, beauty, and the fight, all." But the discussions turn sour, and prejudices bubble to the surface, leaving Fleetwood to realize that sometimes words aren't enough, and sometimes plowshares must be hammered back into swords.

Written By Jessica Wright Buha*

From the works of Christian Fleetwood, Abraham Lincoln, Walt Whitman, Susie King Taylor, and W.E.B Du Bois

Original Music By Mallory Nees

Featuring:

Breon Arzell as CHRISTIAN FLEETWOOD
Jyreika Guest as SARA FLEETWOOD
Derik Marcussen as ABRAHAM LINCOLN*
Christopher Marcum as WALT WHITMAN

With:

Wyatt Kent on Trumpet
Sean McGill on Drums
Kathryn Miller on Guitar

Production Team:

Directed By Jack Dugan Carpenter*
Musical Direction by Kathryn Miller

Stage Manager: Katie Ritchie*
Props and Scenery: Melissa Schlesinger*
Lighting: John Jacobsen
Costumes: Emma Cullimore*
Assistant Director: Samantha Decker
Civil War Expert: Ned Ricks

*denotes a Plagiarist

March 20 - April 19, 2014

Photos by Joe Mazza at BraveLux

by William Shakespeare

Justice, mortality, mercy, and the dichotomy between corruption and purity fuel this work, often called one of Shakespeare's problem plays. It was, and continues to be, classified as comedy, though its tone may defy those expectations.

Featuring:

Tony Kaehny
Sean McGill
Jim Masini
Jason Markoff
Graham Emmons
Andy Blaustein
Jonathan Rooney
Gregory Peters
Evan Henderson
Ben Schlotfelt
Adrienne Matzen
Renae Stone
Martha Reddick
Melissa Reeves
Cady Leinicke
Victoria Montalbano

Production Team:

Saint Sebastian Players
Produced by: Jim Masini, Nancy Pollock, Steve Walanka
Directed by: Jack Dugan Carpenter
Assisted by: Kaitlin Taylor
Stage Managed by: Katie Richie
Set Design by: Emil Zbella
Props by: Ned Ricks
Costumes by: Emma Cullimore
Dramaturgy by: Neal Ryan Shaw
Sound Design by: Michael Kunc
Publicity by: Jill Chukerman Test
Text Work: Steve Delchamps

April 26 - May 19, 2013

MATRYOSHKA
written by Gregory Peters*

Matryoshka is 1,001 Nights as covered by 20th-century American pop culture: a manic gumbo of television, b-movies, and comic books, populated by gangsters, cops, super-scientists, zombies, demons, comedians, soldiers, hit men, detectives, femme fatales, fallen angels, knights, and wizards – all brought to life by a powerful ensemble of actresses… and one very terrifying man.

CAST
Kara Davidson
Kristen T. King
Rachel Griesinger
Rachael Miller
Robert Montgomery
Mallory Nees
Avi M. Roque
Jessica Saxvik
Julia Stemper*
Lisa Tosti.
 

CREATIVES

Jack Dugan Carpenter*, Director
Shauna Warren, Stage Management
Kit Ryan, Assistant Director
Erin Outson, Asst. Stage Management
John Jacobsen, Lighting Design
Lauren Angelopoulos, Prop & Scenic Design
Melissa Schlesinger*, Sound Designer
Emma Cullimore*, Costume Design
Orion Couling, Fight Choreographer
John Ofori. Technical Director

*denotes a Plagiarist 

March 14 - April 13, 2013 

Photos by Joe Mazza at BraveLux

by Billy St. John

Rick Jacobs is a playwright with a wild imagination—perhaps too wild! As he attempts to overcome a massive case of writer's block, the audience sees four figments of his imagination play out the opening scene of his next murder mystery. He—and they—are interrupted by the arrival of his neighbor, Loni, with whom Rick is secretly, and helplessly, in love. The source of Rick's trouble with women, his domineering mother, arrives on the scene (along with her imagined double) carrying a burial urn with Mr. Jacobs' ashes inside... 

Featuring:
Chad Brown

S. Drew Brown

Carrie Campana

Max Ganet

Hank Hilbert

Melissa Imbrogno

Kristen King

Rachael Miller

Ken Mooney

Nancy Pollock

Ned Ricks

Alexis Schaetzle

Doug Werder

Michelle Ziccarelli.

Production Team:

Jack Dugan Carpenter, director
Lisa Ramos, stage manager
Alex Bozeman, set designer
Paula Consdorf, costume designer
John Jacobsen, lighting designer
Jim Masini, props designer
Harrison James Adams, sound designer
Rachel page, assistant director
Jonathan Hagloch, producer

April 27–May 20, 2012

Adapted from Shakespeare, Voltaire, and others. Conceived & Edited by: Jack Dugan Carpenter*, Matt Miller, & Gregory Peters*.

Caesura: A Butchery is a true mash-up of three millennia of drama and poetry, combining Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, Voltaire's Le Mort du Caesar, and Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral togetherwith pieces from King Lear, Macbeth, other Eliot poems, The Orestia, Yeats, and others. The result is a visceral, apocalyptic, and occasionally funny feast of language, imagery, and blood, exploring gender, class, ambition, demagoguery, revolution, the horror of violence and the inevitability of history.

October 5th – November 5th, 2011 at The RBP Rorschach
Produced by The Plagiarists

Featuring:

Casca the Poet: Atra Asdou

Portia: Brynne Barnard

Brutus: Stephen Gawrit

Casca: Justin Harner

Cassius: Layne Manzer

Caesar: Andrew Marchetti

Calpurnia: Lauren Pizzi

Marc Antony: Alex Potanos

Production Team:

Directed by: Jack Dugan Carpenter*
Stage Manager: Elissa Shortridge                        
Assistant Director/Text: Gregory Peters
Scenic Designer: Steven P. House
Lighting Designer: John Jacobsen
Sound Designer: Harrison Adams
Costume Designer: kClare Kemock
Fight and Gore Design: Dave Gonzalez
Dramaturg: Neal Ryan Shaw

* = Denotes a Plagiarist

"There is artfulness in the thrillingly macabre, and director Jack Dugan Carpenter captures it nicely in this well-edited poetic piece…" – John Dalton, Centerstage Chicago

Adapted from Ben Jonson by Gregory Peters

In Ben Jonson’s startlingly modern masterpiece of misanthropy, three drifters – a fake captain, a prostitute, and an alchemist (recently peeled off the street) work overtime to offer greedy and credulous marks their wildest dreams, and then some – for a price, of course – and get out of town with the loot before it all comes crashing down. Their schemes and double-crosses pile up, twist together, and collapse on themselves, as imaginary potions really explode, imaginary long-lost relations are reunited for the first time, an imaginary noble lady suffers an imaginary mental illness, and three imaginary Spanish counts try to marry the same real woman. The only sure bet is that there will be no honor among thieves.

April 9-30, 2011 at Boho's Heartland Studio

Produced by Nothing Special Productions

Featuring:

Face: Sean McGill
Subtle: Andrew Marchetti
Drugger: Scott Sawa
Lovewit: Josh Razavi
Kastril: Ken Miller
Dapper: Tony Kaehny
Dame Pliant: KaCee Hudson
Doll: Melissa Imbrogno
Tribulation: Patrick Byrnes
Ananias: Chad Brown
Mammon: Matt Castellvi
Surly: Conor Burke

Production Team:

Director: Jack Dugan Carpenter
Stage Manager: Cassie Mallady
Lighting Design: John Jacobsen
Costume Design: Nicole Pfeifer
Set Design: Jack Dugan Carpenter
Technical Director: Brian Rohde

by David L. Williams

Apparently the world is ending... so let's dance!

Featuring:

Conor Burke - John
Nick Cardiff - Charlie
Caty Gordon - Erika May
Erin Gordon - Clea
Melissa Imbrogno - Janis
Jeff Kurysz - Tom
Kurt Proepper - Monty
Somer Sloan - Trixie
Anne Thompson - Michelle

Stage Manager: Caitlin Boylan

Lighting Designer: John Jacobsen

Sound Designer: Patricia Cardona

Dramaturg: Neal Ryan Shaw

Produced by Nothing Special Productions, August 2 - 30, 2010

Review, The Fourth Walsh

Review, Chicago Theatre Addict

by Bob Randall

A famous stage and film actress named Sally Ross is stalked by a violent, deranged fan, who begins killing those around her.

Featuring

Max Ganet
Ken Mooney
Amanda Roeder
Anne Thompson

Stage Manager: Caitlin Boylan

by Peter Shaffer

One of Shaffer's most famous works, Equus tells the story of a psychiatrist who attempts to treat a young man who has a pathological religious fascination with horses.

September - October 2009, ISU, Center for Performing Arts

Featuring

Tori Allen
Ross Frawley
LaRoyce Hawkins
Jared Kugler
Rhys Lovell
Chris Mellody
Ken Mooney
Brody Murray
Johnny Huber
Emma Olson
Danny Rice
Anne Thompson
Anthony Urso
Lora Vodicka

Stage Manager - Caitlin Boylan
Lighting Design - Julie Mack
Set Design - Steven House
Costume Design - Ameera Ansari
Sound Design - Chad Brekke
Dramaturgs - Jonathan and Amanda Davis
Dialects - Connie DeVeer
Movement/Violence - Paul Dennhardt

Photos by Pete Guither

by William Shakespeare

Tragedy, betrayal, ambition, honor, ghosts, and violence fuel this, one of the Bard's most famous and quoted plays. This production was created in the "FREE WILL" program at ISU wherein the team only had $100 to bring the piece to life.

Featuring

Joeseph Batjes
Stephen Gawritt
Greg Gelder
Dave Gonzalez
Jared Kugler
Chris Mellody
Ken Mooney
Ariel Mozes
Jonathon Oleksinski
Mickey O’Sullivan
Michael Parrish
Alex Potanos
Kurt Proepper
Amanda Roeder
Matt Sergot
Ryan Simpson
Chloe Stevenson
Mike Tepeli
Ricky Torres

Assistant Director - Sam Decker
Scenic Designer - Russ Stadler
Costume Designer - Jack Schmitz
Props Designer - Louisa Hallas
Sound Designer - Dan Link
Violence Design - Paul Dennhardt
Dramaturg - Neal Klomp
Text Coaching - Jonathan Davis, Jon Ferreira, Christopher Marino, Henry Woronicz

April 2009, ISU

The Journey to Egypt

CAST

Il Capitano - Nick Dargis
Arlecchino - Dennis Florine
Columbina - Jackie Trabilsy
Pantalone - Alex Galick
Pedrolino, il Zanni - Jake Szczepaniak

CREATIVES

Director - Jack Carpenter
Artistic Director - Deb Alley
Production Manager - Chad Lowell
Set and Prop Designer - Chris Beineman
Costume Designer - Sarah Putnam
Sound Designer - Aaron Paolucci
Vocal Coach - Krista Scott
Fight Director - Drew Vidal
Stage Manager - Christine Colonna
Production Asst. - Carrington Konow
Production Asst. - Mike McLinden
Company Manager - Annaliisa Ahlman

by Sarah Kane

Sarah Kane's final play takes the audience on a subjective journey through the mind of a woman with clinical depression. The title of the play derives from the time, 4:48 a.m., when Kane, in her depressed state, often woke.

Featuring

Patrick Byrnes
Dennis Florine
Amanda Goodyear
Caty Gordon
Erin Gordon
Cassie Mallady
David McGill
Ken Mooney
Kristina Reyes
Amanda Wells

Stage Manager- Andi Davis
Assistant Stage Manager - Carrington Konow
Assistant Director - Dani Keil
Scenic Designer - Jeff Kmiec
Costume Designer - Ameera Ansari
Lighting Designer - Mitch Ost
Props Designer - Emily Bowling
Projection Designer - Jason Tucholke
Sound Designer - Isaac Mandel
Violence Design - Paul Dennhardt
Technical Director - David Cermak

THE DUMB WAITER
written by Harold Pinter

CAST
Gus - Nick Cardiff
Ben - Nick Demeris

CREATIVES
Director - Jack Carpenter
Set and Props Designer - Emily Bowling
Sound Designer - Isaac Mandel
Lighting Designer - Sarah Hamilton
Stage Manager - Jennette Birch

THE MEMORANDUM
written by Vaclav Havel

CAST
Josef Gross - Kelly Gilligan
Jan Ballas - Katey Morehouse
Pillar - Fania Bourn
Maria - Morgan Egan
Hana - Jenny Gargaro
Helena - Kristina Maroney
Stroll - Daryle Wolpa
Savant - Cassie Mallady
George - Amy Muszynski
Thumb - Jackie Nash
Lear - Rachel Griesinger

CREATIVES
Director - Jack Dugan Carpenter
Assistant Director - Lisa Ramos
Sound Designer - Isaac Mandel
Costume Designer - Amanda Togliatti
Lighting Designer - Michelle Jacobson
Stage Manager - Isaac Mandel

Photos by Pete Guither

NOBODY HERE BUT US CHICKENS
written by Peter Barnes

CAST
Allsop - Ken Mooney
Hern - Matt Castellvi

CREATIVES
Director - Jack Dugan Carpenter
Sound Designer - Isaac Mandel
Stage Manager - Lisa Ramos

Photos by Pete Guither

THE MUTANTS
Written by Robert Stewart
Produced by Rough Magic

 the mutants is the story of exploratory expedition to map the ocean floor, undertaken by the butler, son & hired sea captain of an industrial tycoon. as the action progresses & the voyage goes on, the sailors dive to the depths & discover an array of creatures (both outside the ship & w/in their own ranks.) they don’t all reach the end, but the ones that do are gone for good.

Featuring

Matt Gee
Sara Gilbert
Will Heafer
Sean McGill
Ben Tibbels

Stage Manager- Elissa Shortridge
Scenic Designer - Joe Lupo
Lighting Designer - brookE Stevens
Props/Puppet Designer - Robert Stewart
Technical Director - Matt Miller

PURE ANIMA
Created by Joe Lupo
Written by Gregory Peters
Produced by Rough Magic

CAST

Lindsay Cook - Zauriel
Justin Gamerl - Michael
Brandi Kawamoto - Lucifer
Sean Kloc - Beelzebub
Sean McGill - Castus
Matt Miller - Dr. VonHackensack
Jenn Olson - Angela
Eric Smith - Brian
Ben Tibbels - Mephistopheles
Meredith Wachter - God

CREATIVES

Jack Dugan Carpenter - Director
Jacob Heger - Producer
Joe Lupo - Creator
Elissa Shortridge - Stage manager
Erin Mills - Assistant stage manager
Lindsay Cook - Costume consultant
Jessica Elsner - Sound designer
Brandi Kawamoto - Paint Charge
Matt Miller - Scenic/Props designer
Tom Weinburg - Technical director
Matt Miller - Lighting designer

Photos by Joel Stuthman

KID-SIMPLE: A RADIO PLAY IN THE FLESH
written by Jordan Harrison

CAST

Jesse Glasgow as Moll
Sean McGill as The Mercenary
Mike Legate as The Foley Master
Andy Dillehay as Oliver
Gregory Peters as The Narrator
Carrie Brown as the Mother and others
Eric Gaetz as the Father and others

CREATIVES

Director: Jack Dugan Carpenter
Producer: Amy J. Black
Stage manager: Christina Weber
Set Designer: Jeff Weber
Props Designer: Jacob Heger
Foley Artist: Mike Legate
Lighting designer: Brooke Stevens
Publicity images: Candace Frank

Photos by Joel Stuthman

Journal Star article

MR. MARMALADE
Written by Noah Haidle
Produced by Rough Magic

CAST

Amy Holt as Lucy

Scott R. Glen as Mr. Marmalade

Ben Tibbels as Bradley

Jacob Heger as Larry

Sara Bucy as Sookie

Meredith Wachter as Emily/Sunflower

Mark Romano as George/Cactus/One Night Stand

CREATIVES

Director - Jack Dugan Carpenter

Producer - Taylor Bendgen

Stage manager - Joe Lupo

Assistant Stage Manager - Allison Eckert

Set Designer - Brandi Kawamoto

Props - Karl Spurzem

Lighting Designer - Ben Wozniak

Sound Designer - Chris Jonak

Costume Designer - Lindsay Lupo

Film elements/projection - Trace Vardsveen and Chris Jonak

Publicity images by Karl Spurzem

THE EPIC OF GILGAMESH

Written by Gregory Peters

Produced by Rough Magic

CAST

Jeremy Kendall

Sean Schmeits

Will Heafer

Joel Story

Amy Holt

Julie Kinkennon

Ben Tibbles

Clay Stevens

Darrin Hemmer

Dave Owens

Eric Gaetz

Rachael Miller

CREATIVES

Director - Jack Dugan Carpenter

Producer - Jacob Heger

Stage manager - Allison Eckert

Set Designer/Puppets Desiger - Joe Lupo

Mask Designer - Erin Mills

Lighting Designer - brookE Stevens

Sound Designer/Composer/Music Director - Rob Krecklow

Costume Designer - Kat Cover

Violence Designer - John L. Marinovich

Publicity images by Karl Spurzem

Rough Magic bids Artistic Director Farewell with Legendary Story

K.
Written by Gregory Peters
Produced by Rough Magic

CAST
Carmen Bailey
Cat Brandes Hahn
Barry Carman
Jackson Fisher
Greg Flattery
Erik Gaetz
Matt Gee
Rachael Miller
Sean McGill
Adam O'Rourke
Mark Romano
Meredith Wachter

CREATIVES
Director - Jack Dugan Carpenter
Producer - Jacob Heger
Dramaturg - Tom Oldham
Stage Manager - Allison Eckert
Set Designer - Joe Lupo
Lighting Designer - brookE Stevens
Sound Designer - Rob Krecklow
Costume Designer - Candace Frank

Publicity images by Joel Stuthman

Photos by Sara Bucy

CORPUS CHRISTI

Written by Terrence McNally

Produced by Theatrix

CAST

Matt Miller as Joshua

William Heafer as Judas

Steve Lenz as Phillip

Mark Romano as Thomas

Taylor Bendgen as James

Chad Brown as Andrew

Robert Krecklow as Simon

Sean Connealy as Peter

Zachary Allen as Bartholomew

Justin Gamerl as Matthew

Mike Goode as Thaddeus

Jacob Heger as James the Less

Ben Sedlacek as John

CREATIVES

Director - Jack Dugan Carpenter

Producer - Jacob Heger

Dramaturg - Tom Oldham

Stage Manager - Joe Lupo

Assistant Stage Manager - Jenny Schenck

Set Designer - Brandi Kawamoto

Lighting Designer - brookE Stevens

Sound Designer - Mike Legate

Technical Director - Wendy Beckwith

Costume Designer - Joy Barlean

Props Master - Lindsay Lupo

Props Assistant - Megan Thornton

Musical Director - Robert Krecklow

Associate Director of Marketing - Brady Leffler

Publicity images by Candace Frank

Photos by Joel Stuthman

THE ILLUSION
Written by Tony Kushner
Produced by Theatrix

CAST

Jeremy Blomstedt

Jenny Cary

Kate Garst

Brady Leffler

Steve Lenz

Matt Miller

Rachael Miller

Courtney Pearson

Gregory Peters

Seth Petersen

Meredith Wachter

John-Paul Wilson

CREATIVES

Director - Jack Dugan Carpenter

Stage Manager - Taylor Bendgen

Assistant Stage Manager - Christina Bramhall

Set Designer - Jeff Weber

Lighting Designer - John Jacobsen

Master Electrician/Assistant Lighting Designer: brookE Stevens

Technical Director - Alicia Bailey

Costume Designer - Jaime Borchert

Fight Choreographer - Harris Smith

Fight Coach - Brianne Bassler

Publicity images by Brett Waldon

Photos by Joel Stuthman

BURN THIS

Written by Lanford Wilson

Produced by Theatrix

CAST

Meredith Wachter

Will Heafer

Mark Romano

Ivan Lovegren

CREATIVES

Director - Jack Dugan Carpenter

Stage Manager - Taylor Bendgen

Assistant Stage Manager - Christina Bramhall

Set Designer - Jeff Weber

Lighting Designer - John Jacobsen

Photos by Joel Stuthman

PTERODACTYLS

Written by Nicky Silver

Produced by Theatrix

CAST

Nate Lange

Carrie Brown

John-Paul Wilson

Misty Madden-Warren

Dan Beavers

CREATIVES

Directors - Jack Dugan Carpenter and Zach Clawson

Lighting Designer - John Jacobsen

Photos by Joel Stuthman

Sincerest apologies to any other fine artist who worked on this production and whose name does not appear here. jdc