COSUMNES RIVER COLLEGE DEPARTMENT OF THEATRE & DANCE-RIVER STAGE
proudly present
URINETOWN THE MUSICAL
Music & Lyrics by MARK HOLLMANN		Book & Lyrics by GREG KOTIS
URINETOWN was produced on Broadway in September, 2001 by the Araca Group and Dodger Theatricals in association with TheaterDreams, Inc., and Lauren Mitchell.
at the Black Box Theatre
2024-25 #THETIMEISNOW Season
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Featuring
ALEC HUDSON AUDREY DI PAOLO AVALON BARTH COOPER HINSHAW EMILY BENNER EMMA ROSE WEHRLI ERIC CHARLTON FAYE CROOK HAYLI CRANDALL IAN CAMPBELL JAELYNN CARR JAYDEN WYNN JIANNA EUGENIO MICHAEL VAUGHN PETER DEMARZIO PURJON BICKHAM RYLEE WALKER SEVRYN MICHAEL
Creative Team
Scenic Design	Lighting, Sound & Projection Design	Costume Deisgn
TRICIA TECSON	CARY BABKA	MARI CARSON
Production Stage Manager
JARED SHIH, MACIE UTILE & NATASHA LARSON-SWENSON
Musical & Vocal Director
GRAHAM SOBELMAN
Assistant Director & Choreographer
AMBRE SHONEFF
Director
RYAN PEREZ ADAME
NOVEMBER 8-24, 2024 Performances Fridays, November 8, 15 & 22 @ 7:30 pm Saturdays, November 9, 16 & 23 @ 7:30 pm Saturday, November 23 @ 2:00 pm Sundays, Novmeber 10, 17 & 24 @ 2:00 pm Thursdays, November 14 & 21 @ 1:00 pm Tickets PAY WHAT YOU CAN Get URINETOWN THE MUSICAL Tickets   SHOW INFORMATION Setting & Time A city, like any city in a musical during times that feel oddly familiar. Run Time 2 hours and 15 minutes including one 15 minute intermission. Electronic Devices Please be courteous to your fellow audience members and to the cast & crew by turning off all electronic devices - phones, tablets, smart watches, etc. - so that you don't interrupt the show. Don't be that person!  Photography & Recording Please take selfies and pictures before the show - and don't forget to tag our Instagram account @seeaplayatCRC! During the show, there is no photography or recording of any kind.
Licensing Information Urinetown is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. www.mtishows.com

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We acknowledge the land currently occupied by Cosumnes River College as the traditional home of the Miwok and Nisenan people. These sovereign people have been caretakers of the area since time immemorial. The state of California is home to more than 110 Federally Recognized Indian Tribes, representing the most diverse set of tribal nations anywhere in the United States. Despite centuries of genocide and occupation, the Miwok and Nisenan people continue as vibrant and resilient federally recognized tribes, bands, and rancherias. The waters of the Sacramento, American, and Cosumnes Rivers have nourished Miwok and Nisenan tribal communities with cultural and dietary sustenance throughout time. ‘Cosumnes’ of Cosumnes River derives from the Plains Miwok language. Stemming from the words "kosumu," meaning salmon and "umne," meaning the place of, it translates as "The Place of the Salmon." Today, we celebrate our Miwok and Nisenan tribal neighbors as the ancestral stewards of this land and honor their sustained existence. It is with their blessing and continued guidance that Cosumnes River College seeks to provide an accessible, equitable, and principled institution of learning.

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About the Show

DIRECTOR'S NOTES: It's the oldest story...

By RYAN PEREZ ADAME

URINETOWN THE MUSICAL is one of my favorite musicals. It's one of the shows I can put on, listen all the way through, and go right back to the beginning again. It's sort of inexplicable: a musical with this premise and which ends - much to Little Sally's chargin - with...well, actually, I probably shouldn't be the one to give you too much exposition.

Styled after the works of Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht (THE THREEPENNY OPERA) and Marc Blitzstein (THE CRADLE WILL ROCK), with a healthy dose of classic musical theatre, and a not-too-subtle hint of melodrama, it's a collage of song and performance styles that begs us to laugh at its silliness in order to give us the medicine we need to take. 

The oppression of the poor, corporate greed, and political corruption: an unholy trinity. URINETOWN would probably be thematically recognizable in just about any era. It can feel as though we never quite learn our lesson. That's precisely where the form of URINETOWN and type of theatre that inspired it comes in. 

Brechtian theatre is famous for its devices and conventions - most especially the breaking of the "fourth wall". That invisible plane that exists between the audience and the world of the play. While breaking that plane wasn't a Brechtian invention - characters from ancient plays to Shakespeare and beyond have taken a moment to speak to us directly - his purpose was novel.

Breaking that fourth wall for Brecht (known roughly as the "alienation effect") was an effort to force the audience to confront the issues of the play, not to get lost in the world. To acknowledge their part in the real world and in the issues treated in the world of the play, not to escape from reality but to face it head on.

While URINETOWN is also a loving spoof of musical theatre itself, this Brechtian approach to greed, corruption, and oppression is what lies at the heart of URINETOWN. Seen as a metaphor for health care, the parallels are clear, for example. But what URINETOWN's silly form and happy music won't let us walk away from is this: what if heroes are wrong, villains sometimes right, and what if there aren't any truly happy endings?

The oldest story indeed...

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

We want to express our gratitude to the following:

• JULIE ZALASKY, Cosumnes River College Business Office

Song List

Act I

• "OVERTURE" (Instrumental)

• "TOO MUCH EXPOSITION" (Instrumental)

• "URINETOWN" (Lockstock, Little Sally, Bobby, Ms. Pennywise, Hope, Ensemble)

• "IT'S A PRIVILEGE TO PEE" (Ms. Pennywise, Bobby, Old Man Strong, The Poor)

• "MR. CLADWELL" (Mr. Cladwell, Hope, Mr. McQueen, Senator Fipp, Dr. Billeaux, Mrs. Millennium, UGC Executives)

• "COP SONG" (Lockstock, Barrel, Cops)

• "FOLLOW YOUR HEART" (Hope, Bobby)

• "LOOK AT THE SKY" (Bobby, Ms. Pennywise, The Poor)

• "DON'T BE THE BUNNY" (Mr. Cladwell, Hope, Mr. McQueen, Senator Kipp, Dr. Billeaux, Mrs. Millennium, UGC Executives)

• "Act One Finale" (Company) 

Act II

• "WHAT IS URINETOWN?" (Company)

• "SNUFF THAT GIRL" (The Poor)

• "RUN, FREEDOM, RUN" (Bobby, The Poor)

• "FOLLOW YOUR HEART (Reprise)" (Hope)

• "WHY DID I LISTEN TO THAT MAN?" (Ms. Pennywise, Senator Fipp, Lockstock, Barrel, Bobby, Hope)

• "TELL HER I LOVE HER" (Little Sally, Bobby, The Poor)

• "WE'RE NOT SORRY" (Hope & her allies, Mr. Cladwell & his allies)

• "WE'RE NOT SORRY (REPRISE)" (Ms. Pennywise, Mr. Cladwell)

• "I SEE A RIVER" (Company)

Cast

Creative Team

Meet the Company

ALEC HUDSON

Officer Lockstock

Alec is thrilled to be breaking the fourth wall in his first production with CRC/River Stage as Officer Lockstock in URINETOWN! This is his second time doing this show, having first played Mr. Cladwell. Some of Alec’s other credits include SpongeBob in SPONGEBOB: THE MUSICAL, Ricky Potts in RIDE THE CYCLONE, and Facebender in AIRNESS. He would like to thank his parents as well as his girlfriend Anela for being his biggest fans. Hail Malthus!

AUDREY DI PAOLO

Officer Barrel

Audrey is in her second year as a theater student here at CRC and is very excited to be in the fall production of URINETOWN. Audrey's previous roles include Clemencia in ELECTRICIDAD, Cecily in THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST, Mother Superior in NUNSENSE, and most recently, Principal Beacher in the CRC staged reading of PLAY IT STRAIGHT. You can see more of Audrey's work in the Student Playfest in December, where students will debut original works created in the CRC Playwriting class taught by Professor Anthony D'Juan.

AVALON BARTH

Mrs. Millennium, Ensemble

Avalon has been involved in theatre for 3 1/2 years, starting in highschool. Her most notable performances would be FLY BY NIGHT, ALMOST, MAINE, and LEGALLY BLONDE where she played Paulette. Avalon takes pride in expressing herself through her acting in theatre but has always been interested in costume design. Her main goal is to broaden her acting range and experiment with more shows and different styles of characters.

COOPER HINSHAW

Tiny Tom, Ensemble

Cooper Hinshaw or as he is known on Twitch "LLCoopJ", is a renowned writer of Gilmore Girls fan fiction. A retired jewel thief, he once stole a two carat emerald ring from the hand of the late great Dame Maggie Smith while she walked the red carpet. He owns 11 cats, 4 hamsters, a chinchilla, and cares for a family of semi-domesticated possums. He invented the phrase "cool story bro" and comic sans font. LLCoopJ is represented by the I DIDN'T SUBMIT A BIO SO MY PROFESSOR WROTE ONE FOR ME agency founded by legendary actor Ryan Perez Adame.

EMILY BENNER

Soupy Sue, Ensemble

Emily has had a passion for the creative arts since she was a child. It wasn't until high school where she was able to be apart of the theater program and her love for acting skyrocketed. She had been part of productions such as 12 ANGRY JURORS for school, did A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, and PUFFS outside of school. Though high school theater left a sour taste in her mouth, being involved in CRC productions has really helped rekindle the passion she has for theater. Emily can't wait to be part of more productions in the future!!!

EMMA ROSE WEHRLI

Josephine “Old Ma” Strong

Emma Rose Wehrli is a 24 year old actress for Sacramento, California. This is her first musical since 2019 after taking a break due to the pandemic, and her first show here at CRC. Emma is a performer who loves to dive into what ever show she is doing. She enjoys playing funny, over the top, and villainous characters. She got her start doing theater all the back in 2009 as milky white in INTO THE WOODS (hilarious right). Her love for this only grew from there, she continued to act, sing, and dance in multiple shows a year. Emma is excited to be back doing what she loves, playing a fun, crazy character as Josephine “Old ma” Strong.

ERIC CHARLTON

Mr. McQueen, Ensemble

Eric is excited to appear in River Stage’s production of URINETOWN. He loves musical theatre and can’t wait to show you what he has worked on. Outside of the theater, he spends his time studying music and playing video games with his friends.

FAYE CROOK

Little Becky Two-Shoes, Ensemble

Faye is excited to perform in another show at River Stage at Cosumnes River College in URINETOWN! She is honored to be able to tell a part of this story along with her cast mates. Faye recently performed as Chrysothemis in ELECTRA and Ifigenia in ELECTRICIDAD. She would like thank the crew of this show for making it so memorable, and for all of the hard work they've done.

HAYLI CRANDALL

Robby the Stockfish, Ensemble

Hayli is a Theatre Major at CRC and auditioned for their first show at Elk Grove High school where they were in the shows FLY BY NIGHT and LEGALLY BLONDE. They attended California State Summer School of the arts theatre program in 2024 were they learned about the creative process of Theatre. They are looking forward to learning more about theatre at CRC and pursue their passion for performing arts.

IAN CAMPBELL

Dr. Billeaux, Ensemble

Ian is a theater enthusiast excited to be returning to the world of the stage. Ian is primarily interested in backstage work but is always open to being on stage, either helping build sets, crew, or on stage he is interested in the theater world more and more each day. Helped build sets for ASSASSINS and THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST while at CRC and continues to work towards a Associates of Arts degree.

JAELYNN CARR

Hope Cladwell

Jaelynn is a dedicated thespian based in Sacramento. With a passion for storytelling, and dedication to their craft, they have appeared in a variety of roles ranging from Lorraine in ALL SHOOK UP to Henrietta in HONK. She is thrilled to return to the stage for URINETOWN after a 7-year hiatus, reigniting her passion for performing. She participated in several theater companies throughout the years and is so excited to continue her acting journey with Cosumnes River College.

JAYDEN WYNN

Joseph "Old Man" Strong, Ensemble

Jayden is an international man of mystery, vegan chef, amateur pilot, and is on the FBI's most wanted list for his criminally radiant personality. He speaks more than a dozen languages and moonlights as a cabaret singer under the stage name "Wynn-ie the Pooh" and is considered the leading interpreter of the music of Andrew Lloyd Webber in the greater Stockton region. His upcoming album "I Forgot to Submit a Bio" from the label MY PROFESSOR WROTE THIS drops November 8th and was produced by Ryan Perez Adame.

JIANNA EUGENIO

Penelope Pennywise

It’s a privilege to be in this show! Jianna is a music student at CRC who loves to paint stories on stage as a vocalist and as an actress. She previously appeared in the PBS program CELEBRATION OF MUSIC. Her acting credits at CRC River Stage include Rona Lisa Peretti (THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE), Clytemnestra (ELECTRA), and The Proprietor (ASSASSINS). In the community, Jianna performed with Light Opera Theatre Sacramento and Rogue Music Project. Many thanks to her family, friends, and teachers for their support!

MICHAEL VAUGHN

Hot Blades Harry, Ensemble

Michael is in his third year at CRC and is so excited to be working on such a spectacular show. Michael has taken part in two shows here at River Stage: ASSASSINS and THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST.

PETER DEMARZIO

Bobby Strong

Peter DeMarzio is thrilled to be returning for his second show with River Stage! He studied theatre at UC Berkeley and has been performing locally in Sacramento for the last year. He is also the founder of backofhouse.art - an anonymous reviews site for actors, theatre students, and crew members to share their experiences. Previous acting credits include: THE GOAT, OR WHO IS SYLVIA? (Billy), three productions of ASSASSINS (Balladeer/Lee Harvey Oswald), AVENUE Q(Princeton), SWEENEY TODD (Tobias Ragg), SAFE AT HOME: THE JACKIE ROBINSON STORY, and FAT MEN IN SKIRTS (Bishop Hogan).

PURJON BICKHAM

Senator Fipp, Ensemble

Purjon Bickham is a current student at Consumnes River College where he formerly appeared as Dr. Chasuble in THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST. Additional past performances include THE BREAKFAST CLUB, THE OUTSIDERS, CLUE, and SURE THING at the Lenaea Festival with Valley High School. He is thankful as well as thrilled to be a part of URINETOWN.

RYLEE WALKER

Little Sally

Rylee Walker is a sophomore at Cosumnes River Community College actively working towards their AA. Rylee has plans to transfer and continue their education, eventually earning their BFA in Theater Arts. Rylee’s goal is to one day be someone’s quirky theater professor. Some of Rylee’s notable roles include Antigone in ANTIGONE, Lucille in JUNIE B. JONES: BATMAN SMELLS , and Cordelia in KING LEAR. From the first moment they stepped on a stage, Rylee knew it’s where they needed to be. Rylee would like to thank everyone for coming, but enough about them. On with the Show!

SEVRYN MICHAEL

Caldwell B. Cladwell

Sevryn Michael is a Sacramento based actor, Who has been performing for most of his life! Sevryn got his start as a performer dancing in a youth Hip-Hop group. His instructor was choreographing for a production of OLIVER TWIST and needed more children to audition to play orphans. Being the little attention seeker he's always been he absolutely had to try out. Since then Sevryn Michael has been in over 20 musical productions. His passion for performing arts knows no bounds. In addition to acting Sevryn Michael has written, produced and stared in his own short films. Sevryn Michael believes that the arts should be a break form the everyday life and enjoys entertaining people and putting smiles on faces! He would like to dedicate this performance to Tony Joseph Javellena.

RYAN PEREZ ADAME

Director, Faculty, Box Office/Marketing Manager

Ryan is a theater and visual artist who has taught and performed in schools and theaters in L.A. and Sacramento for 25 years. Acting credits include: the California premier of THE HOMBRES (Julián) at Capital Stage, DURANGO 66 with Mexico City-based company Teatro Línea de Sombra at REDCAT, DAVID LANG: CROWD OUT at Disney Concert Hall/L.A. Philharmonic, ANTIGONE (Kreon) at the Walt Disney Modular Theater, HEDDA GABLER (Brack) at Studio 407, THE CONFERENCE OF THE BIRDS (Sparrow) at B Street Theatre, THE FANTASTICKS (El Gallo), OKLAHOMA! (Ali Hakim), THE DROWSY CHAPERONE (Aldolpho), THE MUSIC MAN (Harold Hill), and THE PRODUCERS (Roger DeBris). TV: THE MELS. Directorial credits include: the original work CASULATIES OF WAR (Hollywood Fringe Festival), THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE (River Stage), CHICAGO, YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN, THE ADDAMS FAMILY, NUNSENSE, and THE DROWSY CHAPERONE. He is the co-founder of “The Pinkys”, an all-BIPOC performance collective whose work WITNESS THE YELLOW PERIL premiered at the Son of Semele and Hollywood Fringe Festivals in L.A. and was selected for the Edmonton Fringe Festival in Canada. He earned his BA from UC Davis, a Master of Public Administration from the University of Southern California, and his Master of Fine Arts in Acting from the California Institute of the Arts. Ryan is an Affiliate Artist at Emory University as well as an Adjunct Professor of Theatre Arts and the PRIDE Center Faculty Coordinator here at Cosumnes River College. He is a proud member of Actors’ Equity, SAG/AFTRA, and LRCFT.

AMBRE SHONEFF

Assistant Director, Choreographer, Faculty

Ambre has felt so blessed to work with and get to know the CRC students and community members in this her first semester at Cosumnes and show at River Stage! Ambre is a graduate of Pacific Conservatory Theatre (PCPA) and The Ohio State University, with a background in performance, pedagogy, devising and movement. She especially would like to thank Sara Perry, Zack Meyers, Katie Fuchs-Wackowski, Kaitlyn Valencia, Ryan Perez Adame and Jaelynn Carr for their support, artistic guidance and choreographic consultation. It takes a village! If you’d like to see more of her work you can check out Flea in Her Ear, currently running at Falcon’s Eye Theatre in Folsom.

GRAHAM SOBELMAN

Music & Vocal Director, Faculty

Graham Sobelman is a music director, pianist, and composer residing in Northern California. His music direction credits include Forbidden Broadway, I Love You, You’re Perfect, ...Now Change (Broadway Sacramento); 35mm, Songs for an Unmade Bed, Passion, Tell Me On A Sunday, Little Fish, Celebration, It’s Only Life, tick, tick…BOOM!, They’re Playing Our Song, [title of show] (New Helvetia Theatre); Tell Me On A Sunday (Ensemble Theatre Company), Ruthless, A Christmas Carol (Sacramento Theatre Company); Mr. Burns, Pippin, Flora The Red Menace, & The Who’s Tommy (UC Davis); john & jen (Hillbarn Theatre); A New Brain (Cosumnes River College); Pippin, Hair, The Who's Tommy (Folsom Lake College). Graham also conducted Gregg Coffin’s rightnextto me at B Street Theatre and has worked with children’s programs at Music Circus since 2000. He enjoys accompanying master classes and has had the honor of playing for Jonathan Groff, Sutton Foster, Megan Hilty, Laura Bell Bundy, Rachel Bay Jones, Betsy Wolfe, Natalie Weiss, Jessica Phillips, Rory O'Malley, Jared Gertner, Stafford Arima, & many others. He started local cabaret series Graham-A-Rama in 2009 & has released (with Maggie Hollinbeck) Another Shade of Blue (covering the entirety of Joni Mitchell’s 1971 masterpiece, Blue) and Jane Kenyon Sessions: Volumes One, Two, Three, & Four (consisting of poems by Jane Kenyon that Graham musicalized for Maggie). Graham also composed songs with lyricist Emily Melander and released an EP of those five songs called Reach (featuring vocalists Omari Tau, Dani Hansen, & Maggie Hollinbeck). Other recordings include This Is Ain't Betty (featuring original music he co-wrote with Meleva Steiert) and A Sunday Polaroid (featuring Nanci Zoppi and cellist Tim Stanley performing songs from the musical Tell Me on a Sunday). Additionally, as a composer, Graham has written Love Is Eternal (a song-cycle with British lyricist David Kent), a trio of choral pieces premiered by Sacramento choral ensemble RSVP (A Dozen Fires Alight) with lyricist Omari Tau, & many other art songs using the poems of Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, William Shakespeare, and others. He has also written underscoring for A Tale of Two Cities and Orlando for SacImpulse Theatre and the score for short film, Lily. He was commissioned in 2012 to write a piece for the Sacramento Gay Men’s Chorus - "Voices Carry." Songs From Eagle Pond (featuring Graham's compositions using poetry by Jane Kenyon and Donald Hall) had its first concert reading in Andover, NH in October 2022. Graham completed his BA in Cultural Anthropology and an MA in Spanish. He is avid soccer player. He and his husband are raising a Bernese Mountain Dog named Henry.

MARI CARSON

Costume Designer, Faculty

Mari Carson is a costume and sound designer based in the Sacramento area. She received her BA in Architecture from UC Berkeley and her MFA in Dramatic Arts from UC Davis.

TRICIA TECSON

Scenic Designer

Tricia has previously worked with Capital Stage, Music Circus, Teatro Nagual, and Berkeley Playhouse. Tricia has had the privilege of designing shows such as ANTIGONE and DOMESTIC DISTURBANCE here at River Stage, and THE CHINESE LADY and ARCHDUKE at Capital Stage and has assisted in many others. Tricia would like to thank the Cosumnes River College Theatre department for their encouragement and guidance which have been immeasurable.

CARY BABKA

Lighting, Sound & Projection Designer, Faculty

Cary made his stage debut in 1st grade, playing the Wizard in THE WIZARD OF OZ behind a cardboard palace wall. He’s still interested in wizardry, but now it tends to run on A/C current or RF mic packs…. He is an Adjunct here at Cosumnes River College, where he teaches theatre and film, while designing and occasionally still busting out the top hat and handlebar moustache to act in shows around the Sacramento area.

MARTIN FLYNN

Technical Director, Faculty

Martin Flynn, Professor of Technical Theatre, has been teaching at CRC since 2017. Martin has designed scenery for over 150 productions, mainly in Northern California, for theatre companies such as American Conservatory Theater, Broadway at Music Circus, Capital Stage, Berkeley Playhouse, Shotgun Players, Town Hall Theatre, TheatreFIRST, Lorraine Hansberry Theatre, and over 40 shows for Bay Area Children's Theatre where he was the resident scenic designer. In the academic world, Martin has designed for U.C. Berkeley, U.C. Davis, Montclair State University, Chabot College, Napa Valley College and Cosumnes River College. Martin's design for PICASSO AT THE LAPINE AGILE at Town Hall Theatre won a Shellie Award for Outstanding Scenic Design. His work has been nominated 3 times for the Theatre Bay Area Awards, 5 times for the Shellie Awards, and 4 times for Elly Awards. From 2007-2010 Martin was the Scenic Design Associate at American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. Some of his favorite experiences were assisting Tony Award winning director John Doyle on SWEENEY TODD and THE CAUCASIAN CHALK CIRCLE and designing the world premiere of Lauren Gunderson's FIREWORK, directed by the amazing Mina Morita, at TheatreFIRST in Berkeley.

MIKE RUIZ

Theatre Technician

JARED SHIH

Co-Stage Manager

Jared is thrilled to be part of the production team for Urinetown. With a passion for behind-the-scenes work, Jared has stage-managed numerous productions, including Electra,Electricidad,Magascar Jr. the musical. They are excited to help bring this unique and satirical musical to life. From managing rehearsals to ensuring seamless transitions during the show, Jared enjoys collaborating with the cast, crew, and creative team to create a smooth and entertaining experience for the audience. They would like to thank the theatre department at CRC for their support and dedication. Special thanks to friends and family for their constant encouragement.

MACIE UTILE

Co-Stage Manager

Macie Utile is excited to continue participating in theatre through her involvement as a stage manager. Growing up, Macie Utile participated in community theatre and dance. While in high school, she was involved in Sheldon High School's TheatreWorks program. Macie would like to thank her past directors, including her high school teacher, Craig Howard, for spending countless hours helping her explore the art of theatre.

NATASHA LARSON-SWENSON

Co-Stage Manager, Run Crew Chief

CHLOE ESPINOZA

Light Board Operator

NICHOLAS SHARP

Sound Board Operator, Mixer

ELIDA SOUZA

Spotlight Operator

LEE RODRIGUEZ

Spotlight Operator

ALANA MOSLEY

Run Crew, Build Crew/Stagecraft

CAMERON MATTHEWS

Run Crew

KLAUS CURTIS

Run Crew

CODY BEACH

Build Crew/Stagecraft

SAVANNA STUEPFERT

Build Crew/Stagecraft

MICHAEL VAUGHN

Build Crew/Stagecraft

JERRY WEBSTER

Build Crew/Stagecraft

IAN CAMPBELL

Build Crew/Stagecraft

JAKE SANTOS

Build Crew/Stagecraft

Our 2024-25 Season: The Time Is Now

SHORTAGE: AN ANTHOLOGY

READING SERIES: STUDENT ONE ACT PLAYFEST

December 6-7, 2024

Original one act works by the students of our playwriting course get their first public performances!

ORLANDO

March 7-15, 2025

By VIRGINIA WOOLF, Adapted by SARAH RUHL

Orlando’s epic life spans five centuries and crosses class, continents, and gender identity in two-time Pulitzer Prize nominee Ruhl’s adaptation of Woolf’s classic novel.

Playwright Sarah Ruhl is a two-time Pulitzer Prize nominee for Drama for THE CLEAN HOUSE (2004) and IN THE NEXT ROOM, OR THE VIBRATOR PLAY  (2009). ORLANDO recently completed an off-Broadway run in May 2024 at Signature Theatre in New York, with award MacArthur "Genius" Grant Recipient, and Tony and Pulitzer-nominated theatre and performance artist Taylor Mac.

WATER BY THE SPOONFUL

April 25-May 4, 2025

By QUIARA ALEGRÍA HUDES

In the 2012 Pulitzer Prize winner for Drama, the past is always present for a young veteran who comes home to the ghosts of war and his mother’s addiction.

WATER BY THE SPOONFUL is the second part of the ELLIOT TRIOLOGY, a three play collection tracing three generations of a Latino family. The first part, ELLIOT, A SOLDIER'S FUGUE was also a nominee for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2007; the final installment, THE HAPPIEST SONG PLAYS LAST premiered in 2013.

TWELFTH NIGHT

July 18-August 3, 2025

Presented in community with the Cosumnes Community Services District under the stars at Laguna Town Hall in Elk Grove

($10 General Admission)

By WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

A shipwreck, a love triangle, mistaken identity, a Fool (and a whole lot of foolishness) collide in one of Shakespeare’s greatest comedies and most beloved works. 

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