A number of UC Davis affiliated creatives are collaborating on Capital Stage’s regional premiere of the Tony Award-winning comedy Eureka Day. 

The show’s design team includes Professor Ethan Hollinger as projections designer, costume shop director Rebecca A. Valentino as costume designer and head electrician Patrick O’Reilly as lighting designer. Hollinger is assisted by alum EJ Agata while O’Reilly works with alum Naomi Wiemken and undergraduate student Ryan McKinney. Alum Hailey Bowland continues her year-long internship at Capital Stage working in support of the production.

The acclaimed comedy is set at The Eureka Day School in Berkeley, California, a bastion of progressive ideals: representation, acceptance, social justice. In weekly meetings Eureka Day’s five board members develop and update policy to preserve this culture of inclusivity, reaching decisions only by consensus. But when a mumps outbreak threatens the Eureka community, facts become subjective and every solution divisive, leaving the school’s leadership to confront the central question of our time: How do you build consensus when no one can agree on truth?

Eureka Day begins performances on Oct. 15 and runs through Nov. 16. For details and tickets, visit capstage.org.