Lost Girl
By Kimberly Belflower Stan Cahill, director
Friday, October 10th at 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, October 11th at 2 p.m. & 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, October 12th at 2 p.m.
Yvonne Theater
Rider University
2083 Lawrenceville Road, Lawrenceville, N.J.
“Lost Girl” is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French, Inc. www.concordtheatricals.com
Rider University gratefully acknowledges the generous support of: The Martinson Family Foundation for its support of theater technology equipment. Michael T. '89 and Susana Santaguida '89 Gummel for their support of our Rider Friend of the Arts patron program.
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Scenes
Lost Girl will be performed without an intermission.
This show’s runtime is approximately 80 minutes start to finish. The concept of time within the play exists presently in Wendy’s youngadulthood and jumps, visually, to her past in Neverland.
SETTING
Wendy's room, the nursery. There is a large window that always remains, no matter where else we go.
Offices of the Detective, Doctor, and Therapist.
The Cast
Wendy Ava Hojnowski
Peter Peyton DiVirgilio
A / Cora Jaiden Shaw
B / Callie Catherine Quirico
C / Krista Dajah McCormick
Mother Charlie Dubendorfer
Nina Cassidy Hagan
Slightly Brandon Semmel
Toodles / Therapist Phillip Schneller
Nibs / Detective Alex Theis
Curly / Doctor Bianca D’Anton
Boy Jaden Blanco
Understudies
Wendy Savannah Fouchi
Peter Jaden Blanco
A / Cora Jade Cox
B / Callie Fran Avendaño
C / Krista Olivia Conti
Nina Kiyomi Okazaki
Slightly Christopher Tighe
Toodles / Therapist Charley Bazz
Nibs / Detective Kristina Pronina
Curly / Doctor Sophia Luna
Artistic Staff and Crew
Director Stan Cahill
Assistant Director Ava Puentes
Intimacy/Movement Coordinator Sean McCarther
Production Stage Manager Oli Hartdegen
Stage Manager Caylee Madison
Assistant Stage Managers Corinne Mickey Durkin, Isabella Lieberman
Technical Director Brandon Rush
Scenic Designer Yoshinori Tanokura
Assistant Scenic Designer ZuZu Long
Lighting Design Mentor Todd Loyd
Lighting Designer Olivia Dostal
Light Board Operator Juliette Belke
Costume Designer Robin I. Shane
Assistant Costume Designer Jordan Perucki
Wardrobe Supervisor Brandi Quigley
Wardrobe Runners Kat Gedmin, Kyra Pichardo
Sound Designer Alyssa Gil-Pujols
Sound Engineer Craig Pincus
Sound Mix Abby Ray
Sound Operator Julian Jackson
Sound Runners Matt Cruz, Mallory Hoelzl
Props Designer Clare Hanrahan
Props Supervisor Isabella Kramb
Props Runners Gabby Breza, Lara Denges
Administrative Staff
Senior Associate Dean, College of Arts and Sciences Jason Vodicka
Director of Production Management Buck Linton
Artistic Producer C. Ryanne Domingues
Director of Performance Management Kristen Rodgers
Associate Director of Performance Management Leandra Acosta
Performing Arts Coordinator Zach Kent
Stage Management Mentor Brandy Lee Hatcher
Costume Shop Supervisor Jim Parks
Props Director Clare Hanrahan
Scene Shop Supervisor Chris Schimpf
About the Cast
FRAN AVENDAÑO, B/ CALLIE UNDERSTUDY, is a Junior Acting major. Rider Student Theatre Company credits include: Please I’m a Star (student number 6), and Steel Magnolias (Clairee).
CHARLEY BAZZ, TOODLES / THERAPIST UNDERSTUDY (they/them), is a junior Acting and Dance Major. Select credits include: Rider Dances (ensemble). Wizard of Oz and White Christmas (Dance Ensemble; Levoy Theatre) Little Woman (Amy; Masquerade Theatre). Wizard of Oz (Choreographer; Kellman Brown Academy) Elysian Fields 29 Hour Read (Ensemble; Pearl Studios)
JADEN BLANCO, BOY/PETER UNDERSTUDY (He/Him), is a sophomore Musical Theatre major. Rider Main Stage credits include: Lost Girl (Boy/ Peter U/S). Additional credits include: Grease (Kenickie), Newsies (Davey), Mamma Mia (Sky), and Monstersongs (Doppelganger).
OLIVIA CONTI, KRISTA/C UNDERSTUDY (she/her), is a sophomore BFA Musical Theatre major and is honored to be a part of her first Rider University Main Stage production. Rider Student Theatre Company credits include: The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals (Charlotte Understudy). Select credits include: Beauty and the Beast (Belle), Chicago (Velma Kelly), The Addams Family (Wednesday), You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown (Sally), Into the Woods (Cinderella)
JADE COX, A/CORA UNDERSTUDY (she/her) is a Sophmore BFA Acting for Film, Television, and Theatre major. Credits include: Senior Capstone Project Circle (Lisa)
PEYTON DIVIRGILIO, PETER, is a senior BFA Musical Theatre major. Previous rider credits include: RENT (ensemble)
CHARLIE DUBENDORFER, MOTHER (she/her) is a sophomore Acting for Film, TV, and Theater major with a minor in Dance. Rider Student Theater Company credits include: Hamlet (Guildenstern, etc.) and Emotional Women (U.S. Freeride). Rider Mainstage credits include the upcoming production of From Up Here (U.S. Grace).
SAVANNAH FOUCHI, WENDY UNDERSTUDY (she/her), is a sophomore Musical Theatre major with a minor in Arts & Entertainment Industries Management. Rider Student Theatre Company credits include: Please, I’m a Star (Swing). Select credits include A Chorus Line (Vicki) and Carousel (Dance Ensemble/Dance Captain) at Summer Lyric Theatre.
CASSIDY HAGAN, NINA, is a junior BFA Acting Major. Rider Main Stage credits include: Asking Strangers the Meaning of Life (U/S Kafka & Bungee) and The Fire (Taylor/ U/S Emma, Jamie, and Bernstein).
AVA HOJNOWSKI, WENDY (she/her), is a senior BFA Acting for Film, Television and Theatre major and Arts and Entertainment Industries Management minor. Rider Mainstage credits include: The Fire (Aubrey Parsons) and A Doll’s House (Anne-Marie). Professional credits include: New Jersey Renaissance Faire 2024 (Evil Stepsister: Tisbe) and New Jersey Renaissance Faire 2025 (Anne Bonny).
SOPHIA LUNA, CURLY / DOCTOR UNDERSTUDY, is a junior BFA Acting Major. Rider Mainstage credits include: Nell Gwynn (Ensemble/U/S Nancy), The Fire (Assistant Stage Manager), and The Prom (Assistant Stage Manager). Rider Student Theatre Company credits include: BIPOC Cabaret and Patti LuPone was an Acting Major.
DAJAH MCCORMICK, C / KRISTA (she/her), is a junior Acting for Film and Tv Major. Rider Main Stage credits include: Asking Strangers the Meaning of Life (Dancer), Lost Girl (C/Krista). Rider Student Theatre Company credits include: Minor Feelings of a Minor Character (swing) and Patti Lapone was an Acting Major.
KIYOMI OKAZAKI, NINA UNDERSTUDY (they/them), is a sophomore Acting for Film, Theatre, and TV major. This is their first production with Rider University, and they are thrilled to be working, learning, and growing with their fellow performers.
PHILLIP SCHNELLER, TOODLES/THERAPIST (He/Him), is a junior acting major. Rider Main Stage credits include: Asking Strangers the Meaning of Life (U/S Genius/U/S Professor), Nell Gwynn (U/S Ned), and an upcoming production of From Up Here (Charlie). Rider Student Theatre Company credits include: Patti Lapone was an Acting Major, Starseeds, and Hamlet (Polonius/Fortinbras).
BRANDON SEMMEL, SLIGHTLY (He/Him), is a Senior BFA Acting for Film, Television, and Theatre major. Rider Mainstage Credits: The Fire (Father Andy), Nell Gwynn (Lord Arlington), Asking Strangers the Meaning of Life (Cardinal). Rider Student Theatre Company credits include: Inside The Spitz Cabaret (Soloist), Sin of Man (Barnabis Jones), and Puffs (Wayne Hopkins).
JAIDEN SHAW, A / CORA, is a senior BFA Acting major. Rider Credits include: The Fire (Maddie, U/S Sydney, Block, Reynolds). This summer, she completed the Princeton University Stage Combat Workshop and traveled to Florence, Italy to participate in the Meeting of European Theatre Academies with other Rider students. She will be Assistant Directing Rider's upcoming production of Romeo and Juliet
ALEX THEIS, NIBS / DETECTIVE, is a junior, Acting for Film Television and Theatre major. Rider credits include: The Fire (Troy/Fire Chief), Inside the Spitz Cabaret (RSTC). Seen on Investigative Discovery: Evil lives here and Saturday Night Light (SNL)
CHRISTOPHER TIGHE, SLIGHTLY UNDERSTUDY (he/him), is a sophomore arts and entertainment management major with a double minor in theater and communication. Rider University credits include: How We Fall (Keith/#7, Senior Capstone by Emily Paruk) & Improv Cabaret (Improviser, Presented by Rider Student Theater Company, Directed by Johnmichael Les and Brandon Semmel).
CATHERINE QUIRICO, B/CALLIE, is a Senior Acting Major. Rider credits: The Fire (Sydney). Off-Broadway credits: Regarding the Disappearance of Amy (Amy), A Little Princess (Jessie), and Madeline's Christmas (Isabelle). Film/TV credits: Your Friends &
Neighbors (Alyssa Resnick), Stop Time (Maya), FBI (Caitlin Thomas), There She Goes (Young Molly), and Ashes of a Dream (Lily).
About the Artistic & Administrative Staff and Crew
LEANDRA ACOSTA, ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT (she/her), is a graduate of Rider University with undergraduate degrees in dance performance and arts administration and a master’s degree in organizational leadership. She currently serves as the Associate Director of Performance Management and adjunct faculty in the Department of Performing Arts. She has worked with a variety of choreographers including Kate Ladenheim, Randy James of 10 Hairy Legs, Angela Cusumano, Merli Guerra of Luminarium Dance Company, Jennifer Gladney, Robson Alves, Lynn Neuman of Artichoke Dance, and Ryan Davis. Leandra has participated in a number of freelance performances and choreographic opportunities but is mostly engrossed in her arts administrative endeavors. In her role as Associate Director, Leandra oversees and manages various aspects of marketing and promotions for the Department of Performing Arts and Westminster Choir College.
STAN CAHILL, DIRECTOR, is a professional actor, director and arts educator. In addition to stage, film and television appearances, he has traveled extensively as a teaching artist and director, including developing and implementing performing arts programs in Haiti and Ethiopia. Currently serving as Director of Arts at Princeton Day School, he has directed numerous university productions, including recent productions at TCNJ and Pepperdine University, as well as Rider University. Professional credits include Stage: NY Off Broadway: As You Like It (New York Shakespeare Festival), Rapture Two-Step (West Bank Theatre). Regional: Romeo and Juliet (Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival), A Few Good Men (Westport Country Playhouse), The Misanthrope (Philadelphia Theatre Guild). Los Angeles: 92 Days, Locked Up Down Shorty’s (Powerhouse Theatre). Film: A Grave Disturbance, The Inner Circle, Goldrush, Close to Danger, Pearl Harbor, Color Me Perfect, Seduced by Madness, A Thousand Acres. Television: NYPD Blue, Judging Amy, Frank Leaves for the Orient, JFK: Reckless Youth, Party of Five, Beverly Hills 90210, NewsRadio, The Practice, Drew Carey Show, 3rd Rock from the Sun. Director: No Other Gods: A Passion (World Premiere, Concord NH); 12 Incompetent Men (UK Premiere, Edinburgh); Passion Fruit (World Premiere, Edinburgh); Markus/Passion (Washington National Cathedral); Kidnap Road (NYU/La Mama); Footprints to Heaven, The Night Before Christmas (BBC Radio). MFA: New York University Graduate Acting Program; BFA: University of Detroit; Certificate: Moscow Art Theatre.
C. RYANNE DOMINGUES, ARTISTIC PRODUCER, teaches acting, directing, and devising as an Assistant Professor at Rider University. From 2017-2024, she was the Artistic Director of Passage Theatre, a professional, regional theatre found in the heart of Trenton, NJ. Prior to her time at Passage, she worked at a variety of theatres on both coasts, with most of her work being for Simpatico Theatre (which she cofounded in 2004) and the Wilma Theatre in Philadelphia. She received her MFA in Directing from the University of California, Irvine and was a participant in the 2008 Lincoln Center Director's Lab. Next up, Ryanne will continue working with Passage Theatre and Princeton University on a new, devised piece that focuses on issues within the U.S. education system.
OLIVIA DOSTAL, LIGHTING DESINGER (she/they) is a Senior Acting Major from Chandler, Arizona. She will be attending the London Academy of Dramatic Arts in the Spring to study Classical Acting. Rider Mainstage credits: The Fire (Jamie Corothers), Lost Girl (Lighting Designer), Rent/Anything Goes/Nice Work If You Can Get It (Asst. Lighting Designer). Rider Student Theater Company credits: The Guy Who Didn’t Like Musicals (Ted/Infected #2), 30 Plays in 60 Minutes (Ensemble), of bodies changed (Daphne/others).
CORINNE MICKEY DURKIN, ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER (They/Them) is a sophomore double-majoring within the BFA Acting for Film, Television, and Theatre and BA Theatre Design and Technology programs. Previous technical credits include: Sound Designer (The First; Fresh Fruit Fellows/ Matilda; The Music Box Dinner Playhouse) Sound Mixer (Nice Work If You Can Get It; Rider University) and Production Stage Manager (Starseeds; Rider Student Theatre Company)
ALYSSA GIL-PUJOLS, SOUND DESIGNER (She/Her) is a Junior Theatre Design and Technology major with a Minor with Music Production. Rider Main stage credits include: Natasha, Pierre, and Great Comet of 1812 (Assistant Sound Engineer), Radium Girls (Sound Mixer), A Doll’s House (Sound Designer) Anything Goes (Sound Mixer), Rent (Sound Mixer), Nell Gwynn (Sound Designer), Into the Woods (Assistant Lighting Designer), Nice Work If You Can Get It (Light Board Operator). Rider Student Theatre Company credits include: Ride the Cyclone (Sound Designer), INSIDE a Bo Burnham Cabaret (Sound Designer), The Guy Who Didn’t Like Musicals (Sound Designer), Steel Magnolias (Lighting Designer), 24 Hour Play (Lighting Designer).
CLARE HANRAHAN, PROPS DESIGNER & PROPS DIRECTOR, graduated from Rider University in 2021 with a degree in Technical Theater and a concentration in Props. She has been working in the props field for 10 years now, and her favorite props include the following: Yorik’s skull in Hamlet, floral designs for Kiss Me Kate, a faux marble bust for Nell Gwynn, fake vegetables for Cinderella, and a library full of fake books for Into The Woods. She also loves when she gets to incorporate her love of photography into her prop work. Clare would like to thank Louise Grafton for sharing her wisdom about the dangers of hot glue guns and for always being her inspiration.
OLI HARTDEGEN, PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER, (they/them) is a Senior Theatre Arts Design and Technology major. They are also the Technical Director for the Rider Student Theatre Company. Their recent Rider credits include: Rider Dances ’25 (Production Stage Manager), Radium Girls (Assistant Stage Manager), Asking Strangers The Meaning of Life (Stage Manager), and RENT (Assistant Costume Designer). Their recent professional credits include Moonlight Amphitheatre: Waitress (Costumes), Anastasia (Costumes), Fiddler on the roof (Costumes), Jingle Terrace Live: The Doo Wop Project (PSM) and Beautiful: The Carole King Musical (Electrics Team + Deck Crew). They also include credits at The California Center for the arts, Escondido: Mannheim Steamrollers Local Crew (Build + Video), and San Diego Symphony (Strike).
BRANDY LEE HATCHER, STAGE MANAGEMENT MENTOR (she/her), is the Faculty Stage Manager, mentoring and advising students focusing on Stage Management within the Design & Technology program. Brandy Lee joined Rider University after 12 years at The Walt Disney Company in California, most recently as a Senior Entertainment Stage Manager. She received her MFA in Stage Management from the University of California, Irvine and her BFA in Stage Management from Stephens College in Columbia, MO.
ISABELLA LIEBERMAN, ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER, is a junior transfer student majoring in Film/Television with a minor in Stage management. Recent professional credits: The Ongoing Plight of the Ferryman (Tilly/Ensemble). As a film major, Isabella will be writing and directing films and hosts a podcast with 107.7 The Bronc Radio Station. This is Isabella's first production at Rider University
BUCK LINTON, DIRECTOR OF PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT. Buck Linton is the Director of Production Management for all academic stage productions within the College of Arts and Sciences. He is an adjunct faculty member within the Design and Technology Department where he teaches Stagecraft and oversees all production tech credits. Since 2002, he has worked on over 150 productions with Rider University and Westminster Choir College. In that time, he worked as a scenic designer, technical director, projection designer, and/or production manager in all the performing arts disciplines that Rider has to offer.
Prior to joining Rider University, Buck was the assistant technical director at McCarter Theatre for more than 50 productions. During his time at McCarter, he had the opportunity to work on numerous co-productions with nationally recognized theaters including La Jolla Playhouse, The Kennedy Center, Steppenwolf, Manhattan Theater Club, and Seattle Repertory to name a few. While at McCarter, he also served as a scenic designer and technical director for their education department. Buck has had the pleasure of working as a scenic designer, technical director and production manager with many other regional companies such as Opera New Jersey, Theater Virginia, Theater IV, Ashlawn Opera, Peach State Summer Theater and Jekyll Island Musical Theater Festival.
Buck earned his Master of Fine Arts degree from Virginia Tech in Scenography and Technical Design. A native of South Carolina, he earned his Bachelor of Arts from Francis Marion University, double majoring in Theater Design and Technology and Fine Arts with a focus in painting and ceramics. He lives in Lawrenceville with his wife and their three children and frequently assistant coaches their various sports.
TODD LOYD, LIGHTING DESIGN MENTOR, is the lighting director for Rider University’s Department of Performing Arts. He supervises the lighting for every performance that the department produces in addition to mentoring several students that assist in designing, hanging, focusing, and programming the lighting for each show. At Rider he has designed over 30 productions including plays, musicals, dance recitals, cabarets, and operas. Some of the highlights include RENT, Nell Gwynn, The Prom, Clean Slate: A World Premiere Musical, Urinetown, Cabaret, Polaroid Stories, Rider Dances: Moving in Our Community, Pippin, Bright Star, Hair, Heathers The Musical, Once On This Island, She Kills Monsters, , A Chorus Line and Metamorphoses. Other selected professional projects include Rock of Ages and Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery at Forestburgh Playhouse, Clean Slate: A World Premiere Musical and The Gun Show at Passage Theatre, and Journey to Oz with the Children’s Theatre of Charlotte and Experiential Theater Company.
CAYLEE MADISON, STAGE MANAGER, (she/they) is a junior Theatre Major concentrating in both Theatre-Making and Design and Technology. She plans to pursue a career in stage management, directing, and set design. Select Credits include: The Guy Who Doesn't Like Musicals (Stage Manager; Rider Student Theatre Company), Please, I'm a Star (Light Operator; Rider Student Theatre Company), Into the Woods (Assistant Stage Manager; Rider University), Steel Magnolias (Production Stage Manager Mentor/Light Operator; Rider Student Theatre Company), Hamlet (Production Stage Manager, Rider Student Theatre Company).
SEAN McCARTHER, INTIMACY/MOVEMENT COORDINATOR, serves as Professor of Musical Theater Voice and Chair of the Department of Performing Arts at Rider University, where he teaches applied voice to classical, musical theater, and music production majors, and movement for the actor. He is an advanced actor combatant with the Society of American Fight Directors and the Academy of Fight Directors Canada and has trained with both Intimacy Directors and Coordinators and Theatrical Intimacy Education. Dr. McCarther’s research interests span the fields of psychology, motor learning, voice pedagogy, and theatre. He focuses on topics such as the intersection of choral and vocal pedagogy, peak performance, the acquisition of expertise, theatrical emotion, and consent-based rehearsal processes. His research appears in several peer-reviewed publications, and he is a frequent lecturer and workshop presenter nationally and internationally. Previous Rider violence/intimacy choreography credits include Nell Gwynn, The Children’s Hour, The One-Act Play That Goes Wrong, Cabaret, Polaroid Stories, These Seven Sicknesses, Oklahoma, Heathers, She Kills Monsters, and Spring Awakening.
JIM PARKS, COSTUME SHOP SUPERVISOR, is currently working as Rider University’s Costume Shop Supervisor. Jim has been a costume designer for the better part of 30 years and has worked on a variety of productions for plays, musicals, operas, festivals, film and television. His most recent work was for both RENT and Grease for Middlesex counties Plays in the Park summer season
JORDAN PERUCKI, ASSISTANT COSTUME DESIGNER (She/Her) is a sophomore Acting major. Rider Student Theatre Company credits include: Steel Magnolias (Annelle) and Hamlet (Barnardo/ Player Dancer). Upcoming Rider Main Stage credits include: Romeo and Juliet (Juliet u/s).
CRAIG PINCUS, SOUND ENGINEER, has worked in professional audio and system design for the past twenty-nine years. He has engineered and produced audio for musical theater performances, national television broadcasts, and live concerts.
Craig holds a bachelor’s degree in communication from Rutgers University and teaches digital audio production at Brookdale Community College in Lincroft, NJ.
Craig also performs and records music, owns a sound and event production service, and directs TheatreCraft Musical Program, a children’s theater company, created with his wife Renee, producing theatrical performances in the central NJ area.
AVA PUENTES, ASSISTANT DIRECTOR (she/her), is a junior Theatre major. Previous credits include Rent (Assistant Stage Manager; Rider University) Steel Magnolias (Assistant Director; Rider Student Theatre Company) Nice Work If You Can Get It (Wardrobe Runner; Rider University) and Patti Lupone was an Acting Major (Rider Student Theatre Company). Select film credits include being an extra in Happy Gilmore 2 (dir. Kyle Newacheck) and Born 2 Lose (dir. Carlos Cardona).
BRANDON RUSH, TECHNICAL DIRECTOR, is a graduate of Rider University and has kept a consistent relationship with Rider’s Theatre Department, where he is returning for his second year as their Technical Director. Some of his celebrated works at Rider include, but are not limited to, Nice Work If You Can Get It, The Fire, Into The Woods, RENT, Anything Goes, Enemies: A Love Story, A Doll’s House, and Radium Girls.
ROBIN I. SHANE, COSTUME DESIGNER, is an Associate Professor of Theatre and serves in both the Theatre-Making and Design and Technology Programs. Some favorite designs at Rider include The Fire, Nell Gwynn, A Doll’s House, Enemies: A Love Story, Last Words, Cabaret, Polaroid Stories, Pippin, Kiss Me, Kate, and many Rider Dance
concerts. Robin has been a professional costume designer for over 30 years; recent professional credits include The Outsider (Act II Productions,) Children of the Sun (PAC), The Pillowman and In The Next Room, or, The Vibrator Play (Hedgerow Theatre) and OK Trenton (Passage Theatre). Regionally and nationally she has designed at The New Victory Theatre, Berkeley Rep, The Yale Rep, The Hedgerow, Theatre Exile, Philadelphia Artist’s Collective, EgoPo, Passage Theater, Shakespeare Theater of NJ, The National Constitution Center, The Revision Theater, the Jean Cocteau Repertory Theater, Soho Rep and The Harrisburg Opera, as well as for film and television. Robin holds a MFA from the Tisch School of the Arts at NYU and a BA in Theater and Psychology from Wesleyan University.
YOSHINORI TANOKURA, SCENIC DESIGNER, originally from Tokyo, is currently teaching scenic design at Rider University in Lawrenceville, NJ. Yoshi holds a M.A. in Scenography from Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design in London and an M.F.A. in Set Design from the University of Connecticut. As a freelance designer, his design credits include Moon Over Buffalo at the People’s Light and Theatre, Clever Little Lies by Joe DiPietro at Westside Theatre, NYC, Exonerated with the Delaware Theatre Company, and Peter and the Starcatcher at the Adrienne Arsht Center. Yoshi assisted John Lee Beatty on a number of Broadway productions, such as Venus in Fur, Doubt, and The Color Purple. Yoshi is a member of the United Scenic Artists, Local 829.
About Rider University and The Department of Performing Arts
Located in Lawrenceville, New Jersey, Rider University is a private co-educational, student-centered university that emphasizes purposeful connections between academic study and real-world learning experience. Rider prepares graduates to thrive professionally, to be lifelong independent learners, and to be responsible citizens who embrace diversity, support the common good, and contribute meaningfully to the changing world in which they live and work.
The College of Arts and Sciences is dedicated to educating students for engaged citizenship, career success, and personal growth in a diverse and complex world. The college cultivates intellectual reflection, artistic creativity, and academic maturity by promoting both broad academic inquiry and in-depth disciplinary study, while nurturing effective and ethical applications of transferable critical skills. The College consists of four schools: the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, the School of Communication, Media, and Performing Arts, the School of Science, Technology, and Mathematics, and Westminster Choir College.
Through its dynamic mix of academic programs, The Department of Performing Arts helps aspiring professional performers, producers, managers, designers, technicians and entrepreneurs find their unique path in an ever-evolving industry. Acknowledged as innovative and contemporary, the Department of Performing Arts aspires to build a more equitable, engaging and sustainable future for the performing arts while exploring the many diverse historical, cultural, social and creative threads that add to our rich tapestry.
Upcoming Performances
WORLD SINGING DAY COMMUNITY SING
Saturday, October 18, 12 p.m.
Bart Luedeke Center Plaza
TWELFTH
NIGHT
Friday, October 24, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, October 25, 2 p.m. & 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, October 26, 2 p.m.
Bart Luedeke Center Theater
WESTMINSTER CHAPEL CHOIR: WHAT GIVES PEACE
Saturday, October 25, 7:30 p.m.
Gill Chapel
POP, ROCK, AND HIP-HOP ENSEMBLE CONCERT
Wednesday, November 5, 7 p.m.
Bart Luedeke Center Theater
WESTMINSTER JUBILEE SINGERS: SOLID ROCK
Saturday, November 8, 7:30 p.m.
Gill Chapel
WESTMINSTER FACULTY RECITAL SERIES: SONGS OF FEMALE COMPOSERS
Friday, November 14, 7 p.m.
Gill Chapel
FALL OPERA: EL GATO CON BOTAS
Friday, November 14, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, November 15, 2 p.m.
Yvonne Theater
FOR MORE INFORMATION ON UPCOMING PERFORMANCES, SUBSCRIPTION AND PATRON PROGRAM OPTIONS, VISIT RIDER.EDU/ARTS.
