Theatre

Dad Rock is a collection of scenes and monologues from both theatrical classics and newer plays you’ve yet to fall in love with, and songs from Broadway musicals and classic rock legends. These scenes, songs, and monologues challenge and explore toxic masculinity and the expectations our society places on male-identifying people that exist at the heart of many of the mental health crises affecting people of all ages, sexualities, and genders, as well as the people closest to them. This project is also Beck Barsanti’s senior work in acting.

Dad Rock is a collection of scenes and monologues from both theatrical classics and newer plays you’ve yet to fall in love with, and songs from Broadway musicals and classic rock legends. These scenes, songs, and monologues challenge and explore toxic masculinity and the expectations our society places on male-identifying people that exist at the heart of many of the mental health crises affecting people of all ages, sexualities, and genders, as well as the people closest to them. This project is also Beck Barsanti’s senior work in acting.

The Theatre Department invites ALL STUDENTS to audition for the spring ‘24 faculty directed productions of:
The Found Dog Ribbon Dance by Dominic Finocchiaro directed by Olga Sanchez Saltveit and
Orlando by Sarah Ruhl directed by Claudio Medeiros.

Come to the upper MAC lobby at 5:45pm to sign up for a slot. We will hear people individually in the order they have signed up. All are requested to have a 45 - 60 second monologue. Memorization and preparation are strongly preferred.
Please visit go/auditions for more information. Open to Middlebury College students.

Join the Dia de Muertos Celebration ‘23 for a screening of this modern classic, animated film. Book of Life is a funny, irreverent, touching story of heroes, lovers, life, and after life…

Join us for an intimate, heartfelt and serious conversation about cultural appropriation, specifically as it pertains to Día de los Muertos. The discussion will be guided by Nikolina Dobreva (Film), Roberto Lint-Sagarena (American Studies) & Olga Sanchez Saltveit (Theatre).

First Show: Look, Dream, Begin, is a series of brand new, short plays from around the world interwoven into an inventive, truthful, and life-affirming piece about what it means to dream up a future during climate crisis. Directed by Madison Middleton ’22.5; making their Midd debuts are Max Blumenthal ‘27, Odette Castillo ‘27, Emma Dobson ‘27, Jenny Fede ‘26, Virginia Frau ‘27, Claire Hatch ‘26, Allison Hurd ‘27, Nitya Kaul ‘27, Sean Lovett ‘23.5, Edith Mauch ‘27, Sara McKillip ‘25, and Moriah Thompson ‘25.Cole Newman ‘26 is the Stage Manager, with Jiawen Li ‘27 as Assistant Stage Manager.

First Show: Look, Dream, Begin, is a series of brand new, short plays from around the world interwoven into an inventive, truthful, and life-affirming piece about what it means to dream up a future during climate crisis. Directed by Madison Middleton ’22.5; making their Midd debuts are Max Blumenthal ‘27, Odette Castillo ‘27, Emma Dobson ‘27, Jenny Fede ‘26, Virginia Frau ‘27, Claire Hatch ‘26, Allison Hurd ‘27, Nitya Kaul ‘27, Sean Lovett ‘23.5, Edith Mauch ‘27, Sara McKillip ‘25, and Moriah Thompson ‘25.Cole Newman ‘26 is the Stage Manager, with Jiawen Li ‘27 as Assistant Stage Manager.

First Show: Look, Dream, Begin, is a series of brand new, short plays from around the world interwoven into an inventive, truthful, and life-affirming piece about what it means to dream up a future during climate crisis. Directed by Madison Middleton ’22.5; making their Midd debuts are Max Blumenthal ‘27, Odette Castillo ‘27, Emma Dobson ‘27, Jenny Fede ‘26, Virginia Frau ‘27, Claire Hatch ‘26, Allison Hurd ‘27, Nitya Kaul ‘27, Sean Lovett ‘23.5, Edith Mauch ‘27, Sara McKillip ‘25, and Moriah Thompson ‘25.Cole Newman ‘26 is the Stage Manager, with Jiawen Li ‘27 as Assistant Stage Manager.

First Show: Look, Dream, Begin, is a series of brand new, short plays from around the world interwoven into an inventive, truthful, and life-affirming piece about what it means to dream up a future during climate crisis. Directed by Madison Middleton ’22.5; making their Midd debuts are Max Blumenthal ‘27, Odette Castillo ‘27, Emma Dobson ‘27, Jenny Fede ‘26, Virginia Frau ‘27, Claire Hatch ‘26, Allison Hurd ‘27, Nitya Kaul ‘27, Sean Lovett ‘23.5, Edith Mauch ‘27, Sara McKillip ‘25, and Moriah Thompson ‘25.Cole Newman ‘26 is the Stage Manager, with Jiawen Li ‘27 as Assistant Stage Manager.

Never been in a Theatre Department production?
Join the 28th Annual First Show!
This year the Theatre Department is collaborating with Climate Change Theatre Action to create an inventive, truthful, and life-affirming piece about what it means to dream up a future during climate crisis.
Auditions: Friday, September 15th from 6-9pm | MAC 232
Call Backs: Saturday, September 16th from 10-2pm | MAC 232
Performances: October 5th-7th | Hepburn Zoo Theatre