Invited Productions, 2011
FAT PIG
by Neil Labute
presented by Slippery Rock University, PA
Directed by Laura Smiley
Las Meninas**
by Lynn Nottage
presented by University of Maryland Baltimore County
Directed by Eve Muson
Sorrows and Rejoicings
by Athol Fugard
presented by West Chester University, PA
Directed by Leonard Kelly
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
by Rebecca Feldman, William Finn, Rachel Sheinkin & Jay Reiss
presented by Wilkes University
Directed by Joe Dawon
Eurydice*
by Sarah Ruhl
presented by Albright College
Directed by Jeffrey Lentz
Elephant’s Graveyard
Towson University's Elephant's Graveyard
by George Brant
presented by Towson University
directed by David White
Anon(ymous)
by Naomi Iizuka,
presented by Bloomsburg University
directed by Ingrid DeSanctis
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
by William Shakespeare
presented by College of Staten Island
directed by Lee Papa
Noises Off*
by Michael Frayn
presented by Gallaudet University
directed by James Caverly (student).
** indicates production invited to the National Festival at the Kennedy Center in April 2011
*indicates production held for consideration for the National Festival at the Kennedy Center in April, 2011
Invited Productions January 2010
A Year with Frog and Toad
By Willie and Robert Reale
Presented by Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Directed by Rob Gretta
A Comb and a Prayer Book: A Survivor’s Story
Adapted for the stage by Pamela Handrick
Presented by Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, NPP
Directed by Pamela R. Hendrick
Miss Witherspoon
By Christopher Durang
Presented by Keuka College
Directed by Mark Wenderlich
Home
By Samm-Art Williams
Presented by Arcadia University
Directed by Mark Wade
Love@ 1 st Plight
By Drew Aloe
Presented by Washington and Jefferson College, NPP
Directed by T.S. Frank
The Increased Difficulty of Concentration
By Vaclav Havel
Presented by Muhlenberg College
Directed by James Peck
Shot!
Conceived by Kimmika Williams – Witherspoon, Eugene Martin, and Douglas C. Wagner
Presented by Temple University, NPP
Directed by Douglas C. Wagner
presented at the National Festival at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC April, 2010
Widows
By Ariel Dorfman and Tony Kushner
Presented by Alfred University
Directed by Steve Crosby
Rent
By Jonathan Larson
Presented by Robert Morris University
Directed by Ken Gargaro
Invited Productions January 2009
Honor and the River
By Anton Dudley
SUNY Oswego
Directed by Kevin Hollenbeck
Big Love
By Charles L. Mee
Penn State Altoona
Directed by Robin Reese
Love’s Labours’ Lost
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Julia Matthews
La Bete
By David Hirson
Grove City College
Directed by Betsy Craig
Spring Awakening
By Frank Wedekind
Rowan University
Directed by Lane Savadove
Color Blind
By Tom Flannery
SUNY Brockport
Directed by Maria Scipione
Jesus Hops the A Train
By Steven Adly Guirgis
Queensborough Community College
Directed by Georgia McGill
Violet Sharp
By William Cameron
Indiana University of PA
Directed by Barbara Blackledge
7:32
By KT Peterson
Towson University
Directed by David Gregory
Invited Productions January 2008
In Conflict
By Yvonne Latty
Presented by Temple University
Adapted and Directed by Doug Wager
True West
By Sam Shepard
Presented by Bucknell University
Directed by Gary Grant
American Doll
Adapted from the poems of Denise Duhamel by Becky Prophet
Presented by Alfred University
Directed by Becky Prophet
The Beauty Queen of Leeane
By Martin McDonagh
Presented by Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Directed by Jason Chimonides
Goya – En La Quinta Del Sorado (In The House of the Deaf Man)
Written by Willy Conley and Iosif Schneiderman
Presented by Gallaudet University
Directed by Willy Conley
A Day of Absence
By Douglas Turner Ward
Presented by Howard University
Directed by Denise J. Hart
The Cradle Will Rock
By Marc Blitzstein
Presented by the University of the Arts
Directed by Dr. Patricia Raine
Special Invited Productions
Student Directed Laboratory
This is Our Youth
By Kenneth Lonergan
Presented by Slippery Rock University
Directed by Deanna Brookens
National Playwriting Program
Serpentine
By Brendon J. Votipka
Presented by Mulhenberg College
Directed by Phil Hass
Invited Productions 2007
Lucky Stiff
Books and Lyrics by Lynne Aherns
Music by Stephen Flaherty
Kutztown University
Directed by Roxane Rix
The Oresteia
Based on Aeschylus’ Oresteia
Long Island University – CW Post
Directed by Rick Des Rochers
Waiting for Godot
By Samuel Beckett
Albright College
Directed by Jeffrey Lentz
Dora: A Case of Hysteria
By Kim Morrissey
SUNY Oswego
Directed by Trevor Franklin (student director)
Stop Kiss
By Diana Son
SUNY Brockport
Directed by Dick St George
Venus
By Suzan Lori-Parks
University of the Arts
Directed by Johnny Hobbs
Invited Productions January 2006
American Clock
By Arthur Miller
University of the Arts
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
By Tennessee Williams
Alfred University
Minor Demons
By Bruce Graham
Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Lebensraum
By Israel Horovitz
Muhlenberg College
Borders
Conceived By Sigfrido Aguilar
SUNY Potsdam
Special Invited Productions
Selections from Antigone
By Sophocles
American University
Pockets
By Dennis Bagneris
Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Invited Productions 2005
The Shape of Things
By Neil LaBute
Slippery Rock University
Make Sense Who May
By Samuel Beckett
Clarion University
Night of the Wannabes: An Exorcism
By J.C. Lee
Bloomsburg University
Three Sisters
By Anton Chekov
Syracuse University
What You Need
By Denny Partridge
Barnard College
Zombie Prom
By Dana P. Rowe, John Dempsey, Hugh M. Murphy
CCBC Essex
Comedy of Errors
By Williams Shakespeare
West Virginia Wesleyan College
Hotel Universe
By Philip Barry
Wilkes University
Catholic School Girls
By Casey Kurtti
Muhlenberg College
Poe on Poe
By Domenick Scudera
Ursinus College
Hair
By Galt MacDermot, Gerome Ragni, James Rado
West Chester University of Pennsylvania
Invited Productions 2004
The Second Berlin
By Itta Englander
Goucher College
Maggie Magalita
By Wendy Kesselman
SUNY at Brockport
At the Black Pig’s Dyke
By Vincent Woods
The Catholic University of America
The Cripple of Innishmaan
By Marin McDonagh
Clarion University of PA
Zastrozzi : The Master of Discipline
By George F. Walker
Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Electra
By Sophocles
Muhlenberg College
Heathen Valley
Romulus Linney
Sulffolk County Community College
Bat Boy the Musical
By Keythe Farley, Brian Fleming, Laurence O’Keefe
Montclair State University
Angels in America Part One: Millennium Approaches
By Tony Kushner
Bloomsburg University
Buried
By Colette Searls
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Spirale
Inspired by Alfred Jarry
Created by Jeffrey Lentz
Albright College
Invited Productions 2003
HE
By Leonid Andreyev
Juniata College
The Laramie Project
By Moses Kaufman and the Tectonic Theatre Project
University of Maryland
The Gathering
By Michael Duke
Rowan University
Balm In Gilead
By Lanford Wilson
Montclair State University
Scapin
By Moliere Adapted By Irwin and O’Donnell
Indiana University of Pennsylvania
The Emergence of Gus
By Ryan O’Connell
Goucher College
Unearthing Lillith
By Laura Gerhiser
Long Island University
Shakespeare’s R & J
By Joe Calarco
Student Directed
Towson University
Presented at the National Festival at the Kennedy Center in April 2003
Beirut
By Alan Bowne
Slippery Rock University
What happened: The September 11 Testimony From CUNY
By Amy S. Green
John Jay College
The Greek Project
By Euripedes, Sophocles, and Aeschylus
Kutztown University