Theatre Productions

Theatre Production: Season 2024-25

LYSISTRATA
Adapted by Ellen McLaughlin
Directed by Georgia McGill
Humanities Theater

The women of Greece unite to end the war between Sparta and Athens by holding a sex strike. The armies of Athens and Sparta have a hard choice to make; end the war or lose the affection of their partners. This production contains adult content.

Thursday Nov 14, 7:00pm
Friday Nov 15, 7:00pm
Wednesday Nov 20, 12:15pm
Thursday Nov 21, 7:00pm
Friday Nov 22, 3:00pm

CAST LIST

Stage Manager - Alejandro Allende
Asst. Stage Managers - Matthew Choi & Derek Rey Sepulveda

CH1	Sade Alleyne
CH 2	Jasmin Minor
LYSISTRATA	Diana Hernandez
CALONIKE	Lesly Montana
LAMPITO	Zira Callado
MYRRINE	Emily Fana
DIPAS	Alyssa Colella
ISMENIA	Camilla Cherifati
GEEZER 1	Christopher Cortes
GEEZER 2	Robert Webb
GEEZER 3	Rylee DaBreo
OLD WOMAN 1	Jasmin Minor
OLD WOMAN 2	Aleksia Young Melendez
OLD WOMAN 3	Kaylie Emanuel
MAGISTRATE	Ali Rkein
BELPHRAGIA	Alyssa Colella
FISHERWOMAN	Vixen Gooden
KINESIAS	Tom Sauro
SPARTAN ENVOY	Christopher Cortes
SPARTAN DELEGATE	Edison Rocco

Questions may be directed to Georgia McGill [email protected]

Spring 2025

HIT THE WALL by Ike Holter
Directed by C. Julian Jiménez
Shadowbox Theater

It’s the summer of ’69, and the death of music icon Judy Garland has emboldened her gay followers. A routine police raid on an underground Greenwich Village hotspot erupts into a full-scale riot, the impetus of the modern gay rights movement. That’s the well-known, oft-rehearsed myth of Stonewall, anyhow. Smash that myth against the vivid theatrical imagination of playwright Ike Holter, add a howling live rock ‘n’ roll band, and you get HIT THE WALL. Remixing this historic confrontation reveals ten unlikely revolutionaries, caught in the turmoil and fighting to claim “I was there.”

Questions may be directed to C. Julian Jiménez [email protected]

Our Theaters

Humanities Theater: 797 seat, newly renovated, grand proscenium theater; in the Humanities Building

Shadowbox Theater: 99 seat, intimate studio theater with flexible seating; in the "Z" Building.

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Technical Theatre Experiences

Each semester, we offer work calls for students to assist with painting, set, lights, sound, projections, run crew, & many more technical theatre opportunities. No experience required, we are all here to learn. For information on Backstage Crew & Work; Stage Makeup & Costume Construction; Stage Managers & Ushers contact Professor Rothenberg [email protected]

QCC Theatre Stream

We wish we could share all our work, but cannot due to copyright protections. Please enjoy the following available productions:

The @s written & directed by C. Julian Jimenez (47 min., Spring 2022).

A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen, adapted & directed by Arthur Adair (1 hr. 21 min., Spring 2019).

The Taming! A vaudevillian adaptation of The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare, adapted by C. Julian Jimenez & Jodi Van Der Horn-Gibson, directed by C. Julian Jimenez (1 hr. 59 min., Fall 2018).

Ubu Roi by Alfred Jarry, adapted & directed by Arthur Adair (1 hr. 29 min., Spring 2017).

anOTHER by J. Julian Christopher & the Ensemble, directed by J. Julian Christopher, a.k.a C. Julian Jimenez (1 hr. 28 min., Fall 2016).

Hamlet by William Shakespeare, adapted & directed by Georgia McGill (1 hr. 49 min., Fall 2016).

Fall 2023 & Spring 2024

Fall 2022 & Spring 2023

This is a poster for the fall 2022 production of ‘Small Mouth Sounds’ by Bess Wohl and Directed by Professor Liisa Yonker. The poster displays a pair of lips and a finger making the sssshhhh sound against a backdrop of forest leaves.

This is a poster for the spring 2023 production of ‘Wunderkammer’ by Francesca Pazniokas and Directed by Professor Jimenez. The poster displays a plaque with a human skull with deer antlers protruding from its forehead.

Fall 2021 & Spring 2022

This is a poster for the fall 2021 in-person and online streamed production of ‘The Ghost Moments’ by Randy Wyatt and Directed by Professor Yonker. The poster displays a lone young individual on a swing suspended in a house set against the backdrop of a blue sky and clouds.

This is a poster for the spring 2022 production of ‘The @s’ Written and Directed by Professor C. Julian Jimenez. The poster displays a lone young individual peeking out behind a social media post with a television as a head.

Spring 2021

Fall 2019 & Spring 2020

This is a poster for the fall 2019 production of ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest’ by Ken Kesey and Dale Wasserman, and Directed by Professor Yonker. The poster displays various pills in a birds nest.

This is a poster for the first spring 2020 production of ‘Waiting for Lefty’ by Clifford Odets and Directed by Professor Adair. The poster displays a group of arms holding signs in support of a strike.

Spring 2019

Fall 2018

Spring 2018

Fall 2017

Spring 2017

This is a poster for the past spring 2017 production of ‘Ubu Roi’, written by Alfred Jarry, and adapted and directed by Professor Adair. The poster displays a large clown and a spiral on its belly.

This is a poster for the past spring 2017 production of ‘Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom’, written by Jennifer Haley, and directed by Professor Yonker. The poster displays picture frames against a red velvet wall and a creepy hand coming from behind the armchair.

Fall 2016

This is a poster for the past fall 2016 production of ‘Hamlet’, written by William Shakespeare, and directed by Professor McGill. The poster displays a tie-dyed arm chair and a tie-dyed dove hovering above.

This is a poster for the past fall 2016 production of ‘anOther’, written by J. Julian Christopher and the Ensemble, and directed by J. Julian Christopher (aka C. Julian Jimenez). The poster displays a grand mosaic arch and the head of a goddess.

Spring 2016

This is a poster for the past spring 2016 production of ‘The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940’, written by John Bishop, and directed by Professor Yonker. The poster displays picture frames askew against a red velvet wall and a creepy hand coming from behind the armchair.

This is a poster for the past spring 2016 production of ‘In the Blood’, written by Suzan Lori-Parks, and directed by Professor Adair. The poster displays two large hands grasping the Brooklyn Bridge as if the bridge was a prison.

Fall 2015

This is a poster for the past fall 2015 production of ‘A Funny Thing Happened on the way to the Forum’, book by Burt Shevelove & Larry Gelbart, music by Stephen Sondheim, and directed by Professor Jimenez. The poster displays the Coliseum against a sky blue background and Romans running around.

This is a poster for the past fall 2015 production of ‘Big Love’, written by Charles Mee, and directed by Professor McGill. The poster displays a bride and groom against a sky blue background and a helicopter in the distance.

Spring 15

This is a poster for the past spring 2015 production of ‘Metamorphoses’, written by Mary Zimmerman, and directed by Professor Adair. The poster displays a child floating in the sea and a dark sky above.

This is a poster for the past spring 2015 production of ‘Nothing is the End of the World (except for the end of the World)’, written by Bekah Brunstetter, and directed by Professor Jimenez. The poster displays 5 teenagers walking to school, two of them have a sign that says robot on their backs.

Fall 2014

This is a poster for the past fall 2014 production of ‘Electra’, written by Sophocles, and directed by Professor McGill. The poster displays an ancient Greek vase decorated with the face of a girl crying a tear of blood.

This is a poster for the past fall 2014 production of ‘Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead’, written by Bert V. Royal, and directed by Professor Yonker. The poster displays a dog house against a black sky and a large cloud above.

Spring 2014

This is a poster for the past spring 2014 production of ‘12 Angry Jurors’, original teleplay by Reginald Rose, adapted by Sherman Sergel, and directed by Professor Adair. The poster displays the number twelve and a knife set inside the number one. A large hand pushes up against the first of twelve dominoes.

This is a poster for the past spring 2014 production of ‘Milk Milk Lemonade’, written by Joshua Conkel, and directed by Professor Jimenez. The poster displays a dancing rooster and a farm in the background.

Fall 2013

This is a poster for the past fall 2013 production of ‘Spring Awakening’, books and lyrics by Steven Sater, music by Duncan Sheik, and directed by Professor Jimenez. The poster displays a solo rock singer, singing into a microphone.

This is a poster for the past fall 2013 production of ‘Columbinus’, written by Stephen Karam and PJ Paparelli (and the United States Theater Project), and directed by Professor Yonker. The poster displays two high school teenagers in front of a row of lockers standing above the outlines of three dead bodies.

Spring 2013

This is a poster for the past spring 2013 production of ‘Our Town’, written by Thornton Wilder, and directed by Professor Yonker. The poster displays two large hands holding each, two ladders, and a full moon in the background.

This is a poster for the past spring 2013 production of ‘Marisol: An apocalyptic urban fantasy’, written by Jose Rivera, and directed by Professor Jimenez. The poster displays a large machine gun in a blood red sky and a smog-filled city below.

Fall 2012

This is a poster for the past fall 2012 production of ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’, written by William Shakespeare, and adapted and directed by Professor Adair. The poster displays a river and vines reaching up from the water to the sky.

This is a poster for the past fall 2012 production of ‘Almost, Maine’, written by John Cariani, and directed by Professor McGill. The poster displays trees set against a night sky filled with stars.

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