NO FEAR, JUST PASSION
THE FIRST AND SECOND YEAR ACTING SHOWCASE
IVAN FULLER
AND ROSS BESCHLER,
co-directors
Friday, April 14 at 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, April 15 at 7:30 p.m.
Y vonne Theate r Rider University
2083 Lawrenceville Road
Lawrenceville, N.J.
Part 1: Second Year Showcase
This showcase of scenes and monologues by Second Year BFA Acting students comes out of work in their Acting IV: Styles course where they have been working on Shakespeare, commedia dell’arte and Absurdism.
Narrator
Aileen Pujols
Waiting for Godot
Javier Santos Benito & Sophia Porter
Jaques from As You Like It
Emily Porter Siegel
Othello
Maggie Coscia & Sophia Porter
Orsino from Twelfth Night
Nick Franki
Taming of the Shrew
Bella Frost, Daniel Menjivar, Emily Paruk
Julia from Two Gentlemen of Verona
Meredith Bishop
A Commedia dell’Arte Lazzi laugh break
Liberty Ashe, Nick Franki, Bella Frost
Vittoria from The White Devil by John Webster
Raquel Mendez Saenz De Miera
Macbeth
Kate Harbison & Javier Santos Benito
Cymbeline
Meredith Bishop & Emily Porter Siegel
Juliet from Romeo and Juliet
Liberty Ashe
Othello
Raquel Mendez Saenz De Miera & Isabelle Oliver
Waiting for Godot
Kylie Flite & Emily Paruk
Epilogue from As You Like It
Isabelle Oliver
• INTERMISSION •
Part 2: First Year Showcase
The first-year students have spent the year in Authentic Instrument developing their bodies, voices, and theatrical imaginations through training in contact improv, Hothouse voice work, Viewpoints, and the methods of the Attis Theatre. Tonight’s presentation was created from études (short exploratory compositions) developed by the ensemble in response to William Shakespeare’s comedy Twelfth Night, a world inhabited by lovers, monsters, fools, and a woman who dresses up as a man to be near the Duke she loves.
Pieces were created, in order of appearance, by:
Kelly Chavez-Menjivar & Raquel Mendez Saenz De Miera
Nate Fleischer & Nicholas Grzywacz
Cierra Lockheart & Skyler O’Kelley
Jaden Misaro & Johnmichael Les
Lauren Feldman & Catherine Quirico
Elise Carey & Ryan Kudless
Chloe Le Breton & Joei Vita
Brandon Semmel, Luke Studley-Roberts & Brock Warren
Ava Hojnowski & Sean McDonald
Sarah Defrates & Olivia Dostal
About Rider University and The Department of Performing Arts
Located in Lawrenceville, New Jersey, Rider University is a private coeducational, 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 indepth 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.
