Directing

Set in Tampa’s Ybor City in 1929, this Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Nilo Cruz centers on a family-owned cigar factory, where cigars are still hand-rolled and the immigrant workers’ labor is eased by a lector (Spanish for “reader”). Traditionally, the lec...

The term “Boston Marriage,” taken from a Henry James novel, refers to two women who live together in an intimate relationship. David Mamet’s play has been described as a cross between The Importance of Being Earnest and Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Dang...

This was a truly unique experiment, in which students and I combined and implemented theatre traditions and techniques from several eras and genres in order to generate an improvisationally based, collectively written and enacted comedy. We began with...

Kiss Me Kate is commonly considered to be one of Cole Porter's greatest hits, and one of the more important works of the American musical theatre (book by Sam and Bella Spewack). First run in 1948, the show was revived in 1998 for another Broadway...

Neil Simon's comedy Laughter on the 23rd Floor is based very closely on his experience as a young television writer for Sid Caesar's live television variety shows “Your Show of Shows” and “Caesar's Hour, both live broadcast television sketch comed...

Measure for Measure  is widely judged to be Shakespeare's "problem play" - a problem not only for its mixed genre (is it a comedy, a tragedy, or something else?) but for its contradictions and swift deus ex machina  ending. Some scholars consider th...

This classic absurdist black comedy by Eugene Ionesco presents a world in which human beings are being transformed into rhinoceroses. The reasons behind this transformation are never entirely clear. On one hand, it is presented as a contagion; on the...

This was a world premiere production of an original play by Stetson alumnus Mark Kenneally. Its theme was a kind of 'CSI: Circus', which puts a uniquely funny spin on the formulaic TV cop investigation dramas in the vein of 'CSI', 'Law and Order' and...

This play is Steve Martin's adaptation of the farce by Carl Sternheim. Set in 1910 Dusseldorf, Germany, The Underpants  opens with a scandalous situation: Louise is a young wife whose underpants have accidentally fallen down in public. More concerned a...

Holly Hughes’ The Well of Horniness is a lesbian film-noir fantasia, an erotic dream staged in the style of a 1940s detective radio show, whose protagonist Vicky re-experiences her temptations despite her professed intention to “go straight.” This play ...