About Theatre at Mount Aloysius
Mount Aloysius College Theatre produces challenging productions each academic year. Genres of productions include comedies, musicals, dramas, classical pieces, student-directed plays and interdisciplinary study involvement. Interested students take part in:
- Acting and musical performance
- Scenery, costume, lighting and sound design
- Scenery and costume construction
- Backstage running crews
- Stage Management
- Public Relations
- Poster and Program Design
- Directing
The program participates in the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival (KCACTF) conference each year and has had many student receive special honors and nominations from recent productions. Students from any major may participate in theatre, and scholarships are available for interested students. For more information please contact Nathan Magee, Assistant Professor of Fine Arts / Director of Theatre at (814) 886-6409 or email nmagee@mtaloy.edu.
Past Productions
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare
- Shrek the Musical by David Lindsay-Abaire and Jeanine Tesori
- Eurydice by Sarah Ruhl
- The Addams Family by Marshall Brickman, Rick Elice, and Andrew Lippa
- Songs for a New World by Jason Robert Brown (Kennedy Center award winner)
- Twelve Angry Jurors by Reginald Rose & Sherman L. Sergel
- Love, Loss and What I Wore by Nora & Delia Ephron
- Children’s Theatre: How the Grinch Stole Christmas adapted from the Dr. Suess book
- Legally Blonde, the Musical Book by Heather Hach, Music & Lyrics by Lawrence O’Keefe and Nell Benjamin
- Somebody/Nobody by Jane Martin
- Student Directed One Act: The Actor’s Nightmare by Christopher Durang
- Student Directed One Act: The Bear by Anton Chekhov
- Honk the Musical, Book & Lyrics by Anthony Drewe, Music by George Stiles
- Student Directed Ten-Minute Plays
- As You Like It by William Shakespeare (Kennedy Center award winner)
- A Night of Improv – A night of sketch-comedy improv performed by faculty, staff and students
- Nickel and Dimed by Joan Holden (based on the book by Barbara Ehrenreich)
- Dr. Suess & Other Mixed Up Fairytales – A Student Directed Fundraising Project
- Godspell by Steven Schwartz (Kennedy Center award winner)
- A Night of Improv– A night of sketch-comedy improv performed by faculty, staff and students
- The Odd Couple (Female Version) by Neil Simon
- Student Directed Ten-Minute Plays (Student Directing course)
- You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown by Clark Gesner
- The Glass Menagerie, by Tennessee Williams
- Almost Maine, by John Cariani
- I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change by Joe DiPietro
- Steel Magnolias by Robert Harling
- Kimberly Akimbo by David Lindsay-Abaire
- Director’s One-Act Festival
- The Last Five Years by Jason Robert Brown
- The Spitfire Grill with music and book by James Valcq and lyrics and book by Fred Alley
- Director’s One-Act Festival
- Love Letters by A.R. Gurney
- The Zoo Story by Edward Albee
Theatre Scholarships
Please contact Nathan Magee, Theatre Director, if you would like to set up an audition time for a theatre scholarship. The Theatre Department rewards scholarships to deserving students based on academic excellence and theatrical merit in the following areas:
- Acting
- Directing
- Design
- Costuming
- Set Construction
- Lighting
- Sound
- Public Relations
- Be a full-time student at Mount Aloysius.
- Complete the application and attach to your personal essay.
- Send three letters of recommendation within two weeks of your application.
- Schedule and complete the interview / audition process
- Be passionate about being an active part of Mount Aloysius College Theatre!
- Participate in two theatrical productions on campus (acting, technical, design) per semester
- Maintain a GPA of 3.0 or higher
- Be registered as a full-time student.
- Attend all strikes (removal of the set following each production)
- Be leaders among the student body with promotion of theatrical events
Please note: Participation will normally require a minimum of 40 hours per semester unless otherwise instructed. If you have an official position, you must complete all assigned tasks (even if it might go over the required hours). The $1,000 theatre scholarship is renewable each year, provided the above criteria is met.
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