Spring Theatre Festival
THE ACTING SHOWCASE
IVAN FULLER AND ANGELA TROVATO, co-directors
Saturday, April 27 at 2 p.m.
Sunday, April 28 at 2 p.m.
Yvonne Theate r Rider University
2083 Lawrenceville Road
Lawrenceville, N.J.
Part 1: Acting IV
Scene from Twelfth Night
Johnmichael Les, Jaden Misaro, Joei Vita
Monologue from A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Brandon Semmel
Monologue from Love’s Labor’s Lost
Nate Fleischer
Monologue from Macbeth
Ava Hojnowski
Monologue from Hamlet
Sean McDonald
Monologue from Hamlet
Kelly Chavez-Menjivar
Monologue from Julius Caesar
Brock Warren
Scene from Richard III
Skyler O’Kelley and Ryan Kudless
Scene from Othello
Brock Warren and Olivia Dostal
Scenes from Waiting for Godot
• Joei Vita and Brandon Semmel
• Olivia Dostal and Luke Studley-Roberts
• Chloe Le Breton and Skyler O’Kelley
• Catherine Quirico and Ava Hojnowski
• Sean McDonald, Sarah Defrates and Ryan Kudless
• Kelly Chavez-Menjivar and Jaden Misaro
• Johnmichael Les and Nate Fleischer
Lazzi
Sarah Defrates, Catherine Quirico, and Jaden Misaro
Part 2: Authentic Instrument II
The Cycle of the Four Seasons – Ensemble
An exploration of the four seasons in nature. Set in a forest, we begin with spring and then move through summer, fall, and winter.
Ensemble: Francisca Avendaño Palma, Trinity Babino, Charley Bazzle, Cale Bianchino, Henry Breit, Bianca D’anton, Emily DeMarie, Cassidy Hagan, Elizabeth Holzworth, Sarah Hyman, Grace Mandel, Dajah
Mccormick, Ava Puentes, Sophia Ramos, Ryann Reich, Nancy Roig, Phillip Schneller, Jaiden Shaw, Alex Theis, Brian Tobin, Gavin Yauchzee
Journey to the Moon – Four individual pieces with the same title
A deep dive into using the physical body to create spaces, build characters, and tell stories on stage.
Group One: Francisca Avendaño Palma, Henry Breit, Sophia Ramos, Sarah Hyman, Jaiden Shaw
Group Two: Trinity Babino, Bianca D’anton, Ryann Reich, Alex Theis, Grace Mandel
Group Three: Charley Bazzle, Emily DeMarie, Dajah Mccormick, Nancy Roig, Brian Tobin
Group Four: Cale Bianchino, Elizabeth Holzworth, Ava Puentes, Phillip Schneller, Gavin Yauchzee, Cassidy Hagan
About Rider University and The Department of Performing Arts
Located in Lawrenceville, New Jersey, Rider University is a private co-educational, student-centered university that emphasizes purposeful connections between academic study and real-world learning experience. Rider prepares graduates to thrive professionally, to be lifelong independent learners, and to be responsible citizens who embrace diversity, support the common good, and contribute meaningfully to the changing world in which they live and work.
The College of Arts and Sciences is dedicated to educating students for engaged citizenship, career success, and personal growth in a diverse and complex world. The college cultivates intellectual reflection, artistic creativity, and academic maturity by promoting both broad academic inquiry and in-depth disciplinary study, while nurturing effective and ethical applications of transferable critical skills. The College consists of four schools: the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, the School of Communication, Media, and Performing Arts, the School of Science, Technology, and Mathematics, and Westminster Choir College.
Through its dynamic mix of academic programs, The Department of Performing Arts helps aspiring professional performers, producers, managers, designers, technicians and entrepreneurs find their unique path in an ever-evolving industry. Acknowledged as innovative and contemporary, the Department of Performing Arts aspires to build a more equitable, engaging and sustainable future for the performing arts while exploring the many diverse historical, cultural, social and creative threads that add to our rich tapestry.
