Winter Mini Play Festival

Poster design by Dennon LaPalm.

DIRECTOR’S NOTE

Thank you all for coming out to support live theater! Over the past six weeks we’ve guided these students through a compressed process of staging a play, from the inception of an idea through playwriting, feedback, and rewrites, to auditions, rehearsals, tech, and performances. It’s been a wild and fast ride and we are incredibly proud of everyone involved.

The festival model allowed us to develop a cohort of directors and playwrights who spent the first two weeks workshopping their pieces. By reading and responding to each other’s work, we were all able to benefit from respectful but challenging feedback that elevated the work of the collective while creating and maintaining a safe space to bring ideas.

The winter production spot has always been a place in our season where we can experiment, take risks, play outside the box, and gently push beyond the traditional forms of theater our students may know. We strive to create a wide range of experiences for our students throughout their years at RAHS. Crafting a festival is a unique challenge in and of itself for all involved. When we started out in early January, we didn’t know how many plays or directors we would have, let alone what the title of many of those scripts were!

Providing scaffolding for students to develop into roles of artistic leadership and fully realize their creative ideas is something students have been asking for and it continues to be a unique component of RAHS Drama. It requires patience and boldness while forging one’s own path, the ability to be comfortably uncomfortable in the face of the unknown, and the agility and resilience to dodge curveballs and embrace failure as part of the creative process.

We hope you enjoy these new plays from this group of emerging young artists.

Dudley and Kaitlen

Learn more about RAHS Drama at: https://sites.google.com/apps.isd623.org/rahsdrama/

WINTER MINI PLAY FESTIVAL

A Work in Progress

Playwrights: Signe Frethem, Evan Bierscheid, and Olivia Fricke |

Director: Ellie Brezinka

Andy Zan - Amali

Michael Kysylyczyn - Dan

Diana Callistis - Steve/Theater Person

Christophe Claus - Alex

Josie Elko - Jane

Wen Van Riper - Trent

Oren Wolfe - Jay

Gwen Lynch - Elle

Evelyn Woulfe - Tammy

Ezra Vang - Chester

Lance-a-Latte

Playwright: Dennon LaPalm | Director: Sam LaBounty

Signe Frethem - Alex Lockwood

Indya Moore - Jason Mason

Marais Woodward - Daniel R

Iris Hauer - Robert Johnson

Victoria Yang - Gelena Somez

Jocelyn Hales – Mr. Stevens

Diana Callistis - Alex’s Mother

Josè Cerna Hernandez - Dean

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Bet on Love

Playwright: Josè Cerna Hernandez | Directors: Josè Cerna Hernandez and Miko Grafenstein

Michael Kysylyczyn - Apollo Heart

Evan Bierscheid - Rain Everlock

Sydney Horsman - Swan

Beck Lopez - Dove

Ezra Vang - Raven

Wen Van Riper - Crow

Iris Hauer - Luna Lavender

Eli Schally - Ocean Erwin

INTERMISSION

Girlboss Tavern

Playwright: Jamie Allen | Directors: Jo LaPalm and Sophie Kogler

Bri Ansera - Olga

Ruby Larsen - Bunny

Sydney Horsman - Zayne

Dennon LaPalm - Remi

Jocelyn Hales - Blaze

Joshlyn Gonzalez - Birdie

Diner Dilemma

Playwright: Iris Hauer | Director: Indya Moore

Christophe Claus - Jean

Oren Wolfe - Bob

Halle Yonas - Linda

Evelyn Woulfe - Brian

Joshlyn Gonzalez - Peg

Josie Elko - Scott

Beck Lopez - Jill

Evan Bierscheid - Timmy

Alex Bairaktaris, Diana Callistis, Gwen Lynch - Customers

Newly Dead

Playwright: Sam LaBounty | Directors: Sophie Kogler and Jo LaPalm

Bri Ansera - Jessie

Tyler Vang - Herman

Signe Frethem - Carol

Eli Schally - Glen

Marais Woodward - Daniel

The Death of Ernando Herman

Playwright: Diana Callistis | Director: Dennon LaPalm

Ruby Larsen - Cassandra

Tyler Vang - Ernando Herman

Ellie Brezinka - Matteo

Directing Mentors

Dudley Voigt

Technical Directors

Kaitlen Osburn (RAHS Drama Program Director)

Alex Olsen Mitchell Frazier (RAHS Drama Technical Director)

Student Crew

Amelia Heisel, Anna Engman, Arsenius Stanley, Cassandra Moua, Hadley

LaDouceur, Halle Yonas, Holden DiLaura, Imajah Day, Jacques Anderson, Kalli Montezon, Lahna Hughes, Layla Nerayo, Lily Rendahl, Maddie

Given, Marah Muellner, Mareta Clem, Michelle Lay, Ollie Heuschele, Rachel Pickering, Ruhiyyih Wartchow, Solveig Johnson, Sophia Johnson

Stage Managers

Jacques Anderson, Mareta Clem, Ollie Heuschele

Lighting Operators

Solveig Johnson, Holden DiLaura, Liam Jones

Sound Operators

Anna Engman, Lily Rendahl

Much Gratitude to the RAHS Custodians, Mitchell Frazier, Jarame Berneche, Natalie Crosby, Andrea Schmidt, the Footlights Foundation, and Rosetown Playhouse for supporting us.

STOCK THE SHOP

Every dollar you donate from now until the end of Spring Break will help RAHS Drama Stock the Shop!

A Very Special Thanks to Alex Olsen for helping us build, organize, and stock our shop!

We are tremendously thankful to the many businesses and individuals who generously donate their time and resources to RAHS Drama and its booster club, the Footlights Foundation. We couldn’t do this without your support!

If you would like to advertise in our next program, contact footlightsfoundation@gmail.com

UP NEXT!

Footlights Foundation's third (almost) annual RAHSbaret Fundraiser is Saturday, March 25.

It’s a VARIETY SHOW, it’s a SILENT AUCTION, it’s a LIVE AUCTION! New this year, exclusive BACKSTAGE TOURS of the Thein!

All proceeds support RAHS Drama.

Hosted by Andrew Lindvall, RAHSprov Director, and our fabulous RAHSprov Improv Troupe.