Dogteam Theatre Project

Building Summer 2025, June 9-21

Our company of 29 students, theatre professionals, alumni, faculty, and staff are on the Middlebury campus for 2 weeks of script development, masterclasses, workshops, and training, culminating in TRAILBLAZING, a series of benefit readings June 19, 20 and 21. The readings/showings are presented as a benefit for the company, and while there is a suggested donation price of $20 for the whole series, your presence is more important than your money, so please join us and contribute if you feel so moved.

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

Untitled Owl Play

by Sally Seitz ‘17

Directed by Amanda Whitely ‘19

Thursday, June 19 @ 7pm / Seeler Studio Theatre

​​Emily, Elena, and Becca are three friends in their late twenties who meet every Friday night on a back porch in Austin, TX to drown beers and avoid growing up. Yet their weekly ritual is jeopardized by a lurking, particularly vocal Barn owl, who calls into question the stability of their chosen family. This play exists in that special time at night where reality brushes with myth, magic, fable, and faith.  

Voices

by Gerard Watkins (France)

Translated & Directed by Gerard Watkins

Friday, June 20 @ 7pm / Seeler Studio Theatre

​Voices is a haunting and lyrical exploration of the phenomenon of hearing voices—an experience as ancient as it is misunderstood. In a stark meeting room, Véronique steps into a gathering of young voice-hearers, embarking on a journey through the many voices of her life. As she listens—and speaks—trauma and aspiration, confusion and clarity, begin to intertwine. Voices blends poetic language, lived experience, and a touch of the surreal to examine the fluid boundaries between perception and reality, affliction and insight. At the center of the group is a mysterious figure known only as The Voice, who challenges our assumptions and perceptions. As the meeting unfolds, the play becomes a tribute to the unheard and misunderstood—asking what these voices might reveal about our fractured world, and the deeper empathy we might find if we truly listen.

The Standard

by Emma Dobson ‘27

Directed by Elsa Marrian ‘25

Saturday, June 21 @ 11am / Seeler Studio Theatre 

​It’s 1924, and under the steaming Southern sun, secrets simmer. A husband vanishes, and five women must decide what silence truly costs. Gritty, lyrical, and unflinching, The Standard unearths buried truths of love, rage, and survival in a world that expects women to endure.

The Journey of the Saint 

by César De María (Peru)

Translated by Rose E. Cano

Directed by Olga Sanchez Saltveit

Saturday, June 21 @ 7pm/ Seeler Studio Theatre

​A rollicking adventure filled with deception and mystery, told by a late 18th century Latin American traveling theatre troupe. Juan del Camino, a renowned Spanish actor is in crisis following the death of his wife. Tomaso Malaspina, the Italian master of theatrical special effects fleeing the Spanish Inquisition, arrives at Juan’s door as if by miracle, providing Juan a new purpose for living. Together they embark on an adventure to cross the Atlantic to the New World, traversing into the heart of the Southern Cone bearing the remains of St. Fortunata to Moquegua, a small village in the Viceroyalty of Peru. Their encounters along the way, filled with wonder, mischief, and danger, challenge everything they believe, as they struggle to stay true in an era of revolution.

The 2025 Dogteam company:

Hannah Alberti ‘26

Max Blumenthal ‘27

Todd Canedy

Rose Cano

Joel Cote *

Raquel Davis

Emma Dobson ‘27

Alex Draper ‘88*

Mark Evancho

Pamela Gray *

Qinyi Hua ‘25

Dominick Hutchins ‘27

Elsa Marrian ‘25

Cole Newman ‘26

Olga Sanchez Saltveit

Zeph Santiago ‘26

Jamie Schwartz ‘27

Sally Seitz ‘17

August Siegel ‘25 

Luna Simone-Gonzalez ‘24.5

Courtney Smith

Molly Snow ‘26

Lisandra Tusen ‘26

Zeon Waterhouse ‘28

Gerard Watkins

Amanda Whiteley ‘19

Ryan Ulen ‘26

Fidel Vicioso (AEA)

Ramyn Zhang ‘28

What we do

The Dogteam Theatre Project provides transformative experiences for emerging and professional artists, creating meaningful theatrical engagements for diverse audiences. Among its programs, the Dogteam Theatre Project provides training opportunities for emerging theatre artists in all realms of the field, including but not limited to acting, directing, playwriting, and design disciplines. The Dogteam Theatre Project produces theatrical works, including works in translation, reflecting the stories of our more connected world.

Among our programs, we provide training opportunities for emerging theatre artists in all realms of the field:

• Acting
• Directing
• Playwriting
• Design & Technology

Structure

We operate on a calendar of alternating Building Summers and Producing Summers.

Building Summers

Building summers are dedicated to pre-professional training for student actors, designers, producers, playwrights, stage managers, technicians, and directors; script development workshops for plays in translation in which the students would be joined by 3-5 professional actors; and outreach programs folding in high school students from Middlebury Union High School.

Producing Summers

Producing summers begin with three weeks of rehearsals in Middlebury followed by a 5-week run, during which the company presents two productions in rep at Atlantic Stage 2 in NYC.

The first Building Summer is June 13-24, 2023.

The Team