Lisa Quoresimo is Assistant Professor of Musical Theatre at
Southern Utah University. She is an internationally produced
composer and playwright, and an active director and performer.
Her work has been seen at Berkeley Repertory Theatre (West Coast
Premiere of An Octoroon), Shotgun Players, and the Brava
Theatre, and she served as Artistic Director of the Kairos
Theatre in New York City for many years. Her academic
publications include “Charlotte Charke, A Shilling, and a
Shoulder of Mutton: The Risks of Performing Trauma” in
Theatre Topics (Nov 2016), “Joy and Meaning in Theatre
Games” in Analog Game Studies (2015), and a forthcoming
chapter in Hamilton: History, Hip-Hop and Politics: Essays on
the Afterbirth of a Nation. She received her Ph.D. in
Performance Studies from UC Davis in the Spring of 2018, and
holds an M.A. from Carnegie Mellon University. She has also
taught on the faculties of NYU and the Manhattan School of Music.
Master illusionist and showman Harry Houdini and his obsession
with death take center stage in Death and Harry Houdini,
a new musical that will be presented as a workshop by the UC
Davis Department of Theatre and Dance in conjunction with
Catalyst: A Theatre Think Tank.
The work takes the stage on June 2 and 3, 2022, in the Wyatt
Pavilion Theatre at 7 p.m. Performances are free and open to
all.
The UC Davis Department of Theatre and Dance and Catalyst: A
Theatre Think Tank are seeking audition videos for the new
musical comedy Juliet and Romeo.
A comedic spin on Shakespeare’s classic tale, Juliet and
Romeo centers on a second rate author who finds himself in
Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, and his determination to
figure out how to change the ending.
Romeo and Juliet is reinvented as a musical comedy when
the UC Davis Department of Theatre and Dance, Southern Utah
University’s (SUU) Department of Theatre, Dance and Arts
Administration and Catalyst: A Theatre Think Tank premiere
Juliet and Romeo. Co-written by Paul Gordon, a Tony
Award nominee for Jane Eyre, and Curtis Moore, an Emmy
Award nominee for The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, the
production will be accessible virtually June 3 at 6 p.m. PDT
through midnight on June 5, 2021.
Growing sick of the gay dating scene, a man volunteers to go to
Mars in the comedy “Small Steps,” written by Davis native
Briandaniel Oglesby. The play is being presented by Catalyst: A
Theatre Think Tank through the UC Davis Department of Theatre and
Dance in collaboration with Bike City Theatre Company. Free
virtual performances will be streamed on Jan. 21-23 at 6 p.m.
(PST).
The Ground and Field Theatre Festival, the UC Davis-based forum
for new stage works, will launch its fourth year in September
with a new name — Catalyst: A Theatre Think Tank.
GFTF is being re-branded as Catalyst: A Think Tank Theatre, a
unique and powerful theater development festival introducing new
plays and musicals onto the national stage. Produced on the
campus of UC Davis, it is a creative space where world-class
theater artists and student actors meet to create important
narratives in the American Theater.
We are excited to announce a new structure and schedule for
Catalyst this year!
The third annual Ground and Field Theatre Festival (GFTF), ‘Play
on the Brink,’ spotlights new plays and musicals written by
local, national and international playwrights and composers,
including Broadway veterans. The main performances take place
beginning Sept. 26 on the UC Davis campus and in community
venues. All are free.
The UC Davis Theatre and Dance Department and the Theatre and
Dance Ensemble are holding auditions for the second annual Ground
and Field Theatre Festival. An exciting partnership formed to
create and develop new plays and musicals for a sustainable
future, the creative team is looking for actors and technicians
to participate in the 2018 festival.
Directors from New York and Los Angeles, playwrights from across
the nation, world-class scholars and emerging theatre artists
have come together for the inaugural season of the Ground & Field Theatre
Festival (GFTF), an exciting partnership formed to create and
develop new plays and musicals.
