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October 1-4, 2008 Thick by Travis Baker Bridal Terrorism by Bill Rosenfield |
The Theatre Faculty
The Theatre Arts Department is dedicated to a broad based study of the history, theory, and practice of theatre and its various disciplines in the context of an overall liberal arts education, together with an extensive production program that centers on student involvement and leadership in all of the theatrical arts.Daniel LaPenta
2006-2007 will be Dan’s 27th year teaching at Drew. He was chair of the department for over 14 of those years, but has happily given up the yoke of administration to be just a plain old professor again. At Drew, Dan primarily teaches directed and has done a wide variety of productions including some Shakespeare as well as plays by Beckett, Pinter, and Euripides. He has also directed several original, student-written scripts, including Odds last fall. Among his favorite productions at Drew have been Charles L. Mee’s Big Love and Jane Anderson’s Defying Gravity. This spring, he will be doing Ellen McLaughlin’s adaptations of three ancient Greek plays called Iphigenia and Other Daughters. Dan has also directed at other universities and professionally. He is a member of the Actors’ Equity Association as a stage manager. Dan will be in London this fall (2006), again running Drew’s London Semester, which he has done twice before.Jim Bazewicz
Rosemary McLaughlin
Rosemary McLaughlin, associate professor, theatre arts dept., is an award-winning playwright and poet whose current work, Paterson Falls, commissioned by Playwrights Theatre of NJ, is part of a trilogy spanning 1913 – 1920. Her paper on this research, From Paterson to P’town: How a Silk Strike in New Jersey Inspired the Provincetown Players, was published in the first issue of Laconics. The Chair, a dark comedy about global politics, recently premiered at the Provincetown Theatre Company.Her plays and poetry can be found in a number of anthologies, including Classroom Scenes and Monologues (Dramatic Publishing); Intimate Acts (Brito Lair); The X-Y Files and Written with a Spoon (Sherman Asher). At Drew, she has directed Beckett’s Waiting for Godot and will direct Bryony Lavery’s Last Easter Fall 2007. Her comedy, Voices Carry, was directed by Joe Patenaude at Drew as well as at New Jersey Repertory Theatre and the Win Atkins Theatre Project.
A member of the Dramatists Guild, she received her M.F.A. in Theater Arts from Rutgers’ Mason Gross School of the Arts.
Andrew Elliott
Prior to joining the Theatre Arts Department at Drew, Andy Elliott worked professionally on the west coast as a theatre technologist and stagehand. He has worked at The Old Globe Theatre, The La Jolla Playhouse, The San Diego Opera. Notable productions include Rent, Harmony, Play On!, and Dogeaters. Andy received his BA in Theatre with an Emphasis in Design from San Diego State University, and his MFA in Theatre Technology from Indiana University.Chris Ceraso
Adjunct Faculty
- Cheryl Clark
- Jamie Richards
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