Productions
Faculty in the Theatre Arts Department are active in all areas of performance. Actors, directors, designers and playwrights present their work professionally and on campus. Recent and ongoing production work includes the following:
Regional Theatre
Film / Television / Online
Mainstage Productions at the University of Iowa
Readings & Workshops
Other Productions
Regional Theatre
2019
R. Eric Stone
Scenic Design; A Little Night Music for Madison Opera; The Sound of Music for Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center; The Servant of Two Masters and Macbeth for Great River Shakespeare Festival (Eric has designed scenery for GRSF repertory seasons (currently totaling 23 productions spanning 8 seasons).
Bryon Winn
Lighting Design for Portland Stage Company in Portland, ME: Read to Me (Premiere) directed by Rory Pelsue; Skeleton Crew directed by Jade King Carroll; The Half Light (Premiere) directed by Sally Wood
Lighting Design for Bread Loaf Acting Ensemble/Middlebury College in Middlebury, VT: All’s Well the Ends Well directed by Stephen Thorne
2018
Bryon Winn
Lighting Design for Portland Stage Company in Portland, ME: Red Herring directed by Michael Rafkin
Lighting Design for Bread Loaf Acting Ensemble/Middlebury College in Middlebury, VT: A Tale of Two Cities directed by Brian McEleney
Film / Television / Online
2019
R. Eric Stone
Designer; worked extensively in the Art Department for the Fox Live broadcast of Rent in Los Angeles. The production won the 2019 Emmy award for Outstanding Production Design for a Variety Special.
2018
Mary Coy
Actor in public access sci-fi series Star Crash by Arlington Independent Media (produced by Edie Meyers, Alexandria, VA).
Mainstage Productions at the University of Iowa
2019
University of Iowa New Play Festival
Art Borreca, Producer/Dramaturg (since 1998)
Orlando
R. Eric Stone, Scenic & Media Design
Sweat
Jason Tipsword, Fight Choreographer
Seven Spots on the Sun
John Cameron, Director
Mary Coy, Vocal Coach
Paul Kalina, Fight Director
Sunday in the Park with George
Alan MacVey, Director
Mark Bruckner, Music Director/Arranger of Chromalume
Bryon Winn, Lighting Designer
The Wolves
Mary Beth Easley, Director
Mark Bruckner, Sound Designer
Bryon Winn, Lighting Designer
2018
Iphigenia Point Blank: Story of the First Refugee (Premiere)
Lisa Schlesinger, Playwright
Loyce Arthur, Costume Designer
Art Borreca, Dramaturg
Mary Coy, Vocal Coach
Paul Kalina, Marionette Boat Choreographer
Bryon Winn, Lighting Designer
Northanger Abbey
Carol MacVey, Director
Mark Bruckner, Musical Director and Composer, Sound Designer
Seven Homeless Mammoths Wander New England
Meredith Alexander, Director
Readings & Workshops
2019
Dare Clubb
Robot Theater: Agamemnon/Watchman’s speech by Aeschylus, University of Iowa Department of Theatre Arts, Greek Tragedy seminar, director, with Denise Szecsei, Creative Matches Grant.
Robot Theater: Matsukaze by Zeami, University of Iowa Department of Theatre Arts atelier, director, with Denise Szecsei, Creative Matches Grant.
Bryon Winn
Production Design for Beyond Butler 2019 for Wired Production Group
Artistic Director for University of Iowa Summer Partnership in the Arts production Monument (Four Sisters) written by Samantha Chanse and directed by Jade King Carroll
2018
Art Borreca
Resident Dramaturg. Festival of New Works. Hollins Playwrights Lab/Mill Mountain Theatre, Roanoke, VA
Dramaturg, Anna Karenina on the Acela Express by Ben Jolivet. Directed by Bob Moss. Hollins Playwrights Lab/Mill Mountain Theatre
Bryon Winn
Artistic Director for University of Iowa Summer Partnership in the Arts production We Might Fall Apart created and directed by Vanessa Stalling
Other Productions
2019
Dare Clubb
Director for Krapp Hour by Anne Carson, chamber performance, Bocanegra/Lang Theater, New York
2018
Dare Clubb
Director for A Piece of Monologue by Samuel Beckett, chamber performance, Bocanegra/Lang Theater, New York
Mary Coy
Vocal Coach for Great Society by Robert Schenken and directed by Kyle Donnelly at Arena Stage in Washington D.C. and for Pickle Pea Walks: Three Walking Tours in Washington D.C. (an immersive experience in which guests are presented the opportunity to walk and talk with historical figures (actors portraying real people from the past) who have first-hand knowledge and the inside scoop about our nation’s history).
Alan MacVey
Writer, Director, Team member for new theatre piece, Elevator #7, involving live actors and virtual reality, presented in E.C. Mabie Theatre in December 2018. A new version is in development and will be presented at Ohio State University in February 2020.
Bryon Winn
Lighting Design for School of Music Opera: Grand Night for Singing and Cosi Fan Tutte, both directed by Bill Theisen
Megan Gogerty
Playwright and Actor, Feast
- Event held at Hollins University in Roanoke, VA. In collaboration with Saffron Henke (Director). Week-long developmental residency culminating in a workshop reading.
- Mobile, AL. Sponsored by Company 11 Theatre Company. Further details can be found at company11.org. Developmental reading.
- Event held at Oxford Community Arts Center in Oxford, OH. Sponsored by The Performing Arts Series. In collaboration with Saffron Henke (Director). Further details can be found at http://www.oxarts.org. Workshop production, The Performing Arts Solo Series.
Playwright and Actor, Lady Macbeth and Her Pal, Megan
- Mobile, AL. Sponsored by Company 11 Theatre Company. Further details can be found at company11.org.
- Austin, TX. Sponsored by Shrewd Productions. Playwright. Directed by Shannon Grounds, starring Eva McQuade.
Standup Comedy
- Headlined comedy show entitled Show Some Love Fundraising Dinner, sponsored by TAKO in Coralville, IA.
- Headlined and emceed comedy and burlesque show entitled The Canaries Raise Hell and Dollars, the annual fundraiser for Planned Parenthood of the Heartland in Iowa City, IA. (One of the original event founders)
- Headlined comedy show entitled Comedy Night at Big Grove in Iowa City, IA.