Each of the following shows displays a rehearsal schedule for actors.

Stage manager & tech crew report dates are highlighted.
Audition dates will be specified by the show’s director.

If you would like to perform, please be prepared to donate eight (8) hours of volunteer crew work for the production in which you are cast or a different show.

If you would like to be considered as a director, plan on a significant investment in advance of the rehearsal schedule to perform dramaturgy; meet with production team to develop set, prop, lighting, sound, and costume plots; present yourexperience to the producer via interview; and a create production plan with the producer.

Crewpositions include:

‍Stage manager, final two weeks of rehearsal. costume & prop readiness. Cue actor off stage and ensure correctness of hand props and costumes. Cue sound and lights if requested by the director. Perform tasks as determined by the director.

Costume master, approx.16-hour commitment early in the rehearsal process. Measuring cast, consulting with director for costume requirements, procuring costume pieces from lending closet or donations, cleaning and preparing costumes for final two weeks of rehearsal.

‍Propmaster, approx.16-hour commitment early in the rehearsal process. Consulting with director for prop requirements, procuring props from lending closet, resale shops or donations, preparing prop table for final two weeks of rehearsal.
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‍Sound/lighting technicians – Final two weeks of rehearsals. Executing sound and music cues or light cues designed by the production team from electronic equipment and computers on-site (we’ll teach you how). Procuring sound and music cues (if you are able).

‍Prompter – Two weeks of rehearsal BEFOREtech/performance week. Follow the action on book and feed lines when requestedby actors.

Production Line-up 2022
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‍Skin Deep by Jon Lonoff
Cast: Maureen Mulligan, Sheila Whiting, Squire Whiting, Jr., Joe Spinelli

‍Synopsis: Large, lovable, lonely-hearted Maureen, gives romance one last shot on a blind-date with sweet awkward Joseph Spinelli; she's learned to pepper her speech with jokes to hide insecurities about her weight and appearance, while he's almost dangerously forthright, saying everything that comes to his mind. They both know they're perfect for each other, and in time they come to admit it. They were set up on the date by Maureen's sister Sheila and her husband Squire, who are having problems of their own: Sheila undergoes a non-stop series of cosmetic surgeries to hang onto the attractive and much-desired Squire, who may or may not have long ago held designs on Maureen, who introduced him to Sheila. With Maureen particularly vulnerable to both hurting and being hurt, the time is ripe for all these unspoken issues to bubble to the surface.

Performance dates: Feb. 11-13
3-per-week Rehearsals dates:            
Jan 3-7 Read Through & Blocking                                                            
Jan. 10-30 RunThroughs/Scene work                                                            
Jan 29 & 30 Set Build at AAV                                                            
Jan 31-Feb. 4 – On stage run-throughs                                                            
Feb 7 – 13 – Tech Week & Performances (nightly) 

Steel Magnolias by Robert Harling (1987)
Cast: Shelby, M'Lynn, Ouiser, Clairee, Truvy, Annelle 

Synopsis: The action is set in Truvy’s beauty salon in Chinquapin, Louisiana, where allthe ladies who are “anybody” come to have their hair done. Helped by her eagernew assistant, Annelle (who is not sure whether she is still married), theoutspoken, wise-cracking Truvy dispenses shampoos and free advice to the town’srich curmudgeon, Ouiser; an eccentric millionaire, Miss Clairee, who has a raging sweet tooth; local social leader, M’Lynn, whose daughter, Shelby (the prettiest girl in town), is about to marry a “good ole boy.” Filled with hilarious repartee and not a few acerbic but humorously revealing verbal collisions, the play moves toward tragedy when, in the second act, the spunky Shelby (who is a diabetic) risks pregnancy and forfeits her life. The sudden realization of their mortality affects the others, but also draws on the underlying strength—and love—which give the play, and its characters, the special quality to make them truly touching, funny and marvelously amiable company in good times and bad. 

Performance dates: May 6 - 8
3-per-week Rehearsals dates:                    
Mar 28- April 1 Read Through& Blocking                                                                               April 4 – 29 Scene work/Run throughs                                                                               April 23 & 24 Set Build atAAV                                                                                
April 25-29 – On stage run-throughs
May 2 - 8 – Tech Week & Performances (nightly)   

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard
Directed by Jomarie Leone 

Cast: ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN –schoolmates and childhood friends
of Hamlet
THE PLAYER – a traveling actor,
‍HAMLET – the Prince of Denmark,
‍TRAGEDIANS – traveling with the Player, including Alfred,
‍KINGCLAUDIUS – the King of Denmark, Hamlet's uncle and stepfather, GERTRUDE –the Queen of Denmark, and Hamlet's mother,
‍POLONIUS – Claudius's chief adviser,
‍OPHELIA – Polonius's daughter,
‍HORATIO –a friend and schoolmate of Hamlet
FORTINBRAS – the nephew of the King of Norway, SOLDIERS,COURTIERS, MUSICIANS 

Synopsis: A modern dramatic masterpiece, the inventive tale of Hamlet as told from the worm's-eye view of the bewildered Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. In Tom Stoppard's best-known work, this Shakespearean Laurel and Hardy finally get a chance to take the lead role, but do so in a world where reality and illusion intermix, and where fate leads to a tragic but inevitable end. 
Performance dates: August 5-7
3-per-week Rehearsals dates:                    
June 27-30 Read Through & Blocking                                                                                July5- 22 Scene work/Run throughs                                                                                July 23 & 24 Set Build at AAV                                                                                
July 25-29 – On stage run-throughs
Aug 1-7 – Tech Week & Performances (nightly) 


Rope by Patrick Hamilton

Directed by Jomarie Leone 
Cast:
‍Wyndham Brandon & Charles Granillo - university students;
‍Sabot - their servant,
‍Kenneth Raglan – a school friend,
‍Leila Arden - aschool friend,
‍Sir Johnstone Kentley – the dead boy’s father,
‍Mrs Debenham – the dead boy’s aunt,
‍Rupert Cadell – their teacher.

Synopsis: For the mere sake of adventure, danger, and the "fun of the thing," Wyndham Brandon persuades his weak-minded friend, Charles Granillo, to assist him in the murder of a fellow undergraduate, a perfectly harmless man named Ronald Kently. They place the body in a wooden chest, and to add spice to their handiwork, invite a few acquaintances, including the dead youth's father, to a party, the chest with its gruesome contents serving as a supper table. The horror and tension are worked up gradually; thunder grows outside, the guests leave, and we see the reactions of the two murderers, watched closely by the suspecting lame poet, Rupert Cadell. Finally they break down under the strain and confess their guilt.

Performance dates: Nov 4-6
3-per-week Rehearsals dates:            
Sept. 26-30 Read Through &Blocking                                                            
Oct 3 - 21 Scene work/Run throughs                                                            
Oct 22 & 23 Set Build at AAV                                                            
Oct. 24-28 – On stage run-throughs
Oct. 31-Nov. 6 – Tech Week &Performances (nightly)