Take to the Stage!
Connie Canaday Howard, Director
College Theater includes StageWorks, which are fully designed productions, Actors’ Theatre in the Studio, productions using minimal design in order to focus on the acting process as an extension of the classroom, and Freestage, which is an exciting alternative performance arena emphasizing imaginative writing and directing, resourceful acting, and creative use of space. Interested actors are invited. Phone (630) 942-3008 to add your name to the audition mailing list or see the Audition page for more information.Streaming Video: Connie Canaday Howard
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2009-2010 Schedule
Oct. 16 to Nov. 1, College Theater: Dracula
Nov. 12 to 22, College Theater: Plaza Suite
March 4 to 21, College Theater: Agnes of God
April 8 to 18, College Theater: Twelfth Night
June 18 to July 11: College Theater: TBA
Freestage
FREESTAGE offers students as well as faculty members, an opportunity to develop, explore and stretch their creativity and skills in a free environment. Freestage is a forum in which students and faculty can apply knowledge gained in classes and labs by producing a scene, a one act play, several scenes from different plays, or a full length play. Staged readings of original scripts can also be arranged. Freestage operates with a minimal budget and no fixed theatre space. Thus the emphasis is on imaginative writing & directing, resourceful acting, & creative use of space.
KCACTF Acting segments
The following video clips are from the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival's Region III conference held during the second weekend in January, 2005. College of DuPage had four students nominated for an acting competition/scholarship, for which they had four scene partners who joined them as they competed. Of the 1,700 individuals attending the conference, 385 were entered in the Irene Ryan Acting Competition, for which they were nominated in the past year as a result of performances deemed outstanding by the ACTF responders. All of our students performed very well, placing them high in their preliminary rounds. Jennifer Riddle, and partner Nick Bender, moved to semi-finals, which is amazing. It is important to note that the competitors ranged from freshman year to third year MFA acting students. The cut from preliminaries to semi-finals is drastic — 385 to 36. Jennifer and Nick (who'd arrived with everyone else at 8:30 a.m. to start the day of auditions), did their semi-final round near 10 p.m. that night, and were great, though they did not proceed on to finals. In addition, a one-act festival of six original works was auditioned, rehearsed and performed in three days. Of the 80 people who auditioned, 16 were cast, and Monnie Aleahmad of College of DuPage was one of these sixteen.
Both students and faculty participated in many workshops, some of which ranged from Shakespeare, Improv., Adjudication, Combat, Alexander, Post-performance discussions, Auditioning, and Characterization, to name a few. And finally, we had the opportunity of seeing some of the best work in the region by attending full performances nominated by regional ACTF as outstanding, ranging from new works to Othello.Streaming Video
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