Past Seasons
2023-2024
Speech & Debate
W&L Dancers Create...
Bentley Musical Opera, Dido & Aeneas
W&L Repertory Dance Company
Begets: Fall of A High School Ronin
2022-2023
W&L Dancers Create...
Treasure Island
Bentley Musical, BEEHIVE - THE 60'S MUSICAL
W&L Repertory Dance Company
Lenfest/Dance Master Class: MOMIX
Dance Master Classes-Injury Prevention for Dancers & Movement Based Conditioning for Dancers: Sarah Gosslin; Hip Hop led by Jasmine Shaw
2021-2022
Staged Reading of Heroes of the Fourth Turning
W&L Dancers Create...
The Dramatic Circle
Thumbelina
W&L Repertory Dance Company and University Jazz Ensemble
Bentley Musical, tick, tick...BOOM! Musical
The Moors
TDFS Master Class: Puppetry 101 Master Class by Joshua Holden; Kamishibai Workshop with Natsu Onoda Power
Lenfest/Dance Master Class: Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo
Dance Master Classes-Modern Technique by Eric Rivera; Baroque Master Class by Anne Van Gelder; Dunham Master Class by Kehinde Ishangi
2020-2021
TARTUFFE
W&L Dancers Create...
W&L Repertory Dance Company
Bentley Musical, LITTLE WOMEN the Broadway Musical
BURN
Aerial Dance
2019-2020
A Midsummer Night's Dream
W&L Dancers Create...
Everybody
Bentley Musical, Considering Matthew Shephard
W&L Repertory Dance Company
2018-2019
Bentley Musical, PRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT, the musical
VANYA AND SONIA AND MASHA AND SPIKE
W&L Dancers Create...
The Cherry Orchard (Brustein)
W&L Repertory Dance Company
2017-2018
Bentley Musical, The Addams Family, a New Musical
W&L Dancers Create...
Dancing with Professors<
James and the Giant Peach
The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet
W&L Repertory Dance Company
2016-2017
Theory or Relativity
W&L Dancers Create...
Dancing with Professors
Sense and Sensibility
Dracula
W&L Repertory Dance Concert
2015-2016
Desdemona, a play about a Handkerchief Sessoms’ Fund Guest Artist
Believe None of Us
Love’s Labors Lost
(W&L and BlackFrairs’ Playhouse, Staunton, VA)
Dancing with Professors
W&L Dancers Create…
Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet)
Bentley Musical, Legally Blonde
Dance Concert
Master Classes
A Musical Theater Workshop lead by Todd Hunter
Two Part Improvisation/Performance led by Jonathan Chapman Cook
Shakespearan Residency with cast of Love’s Labors Lost taught by Ben Crystal
The Art and Crafts of Arts Management led by Amanda Nelson
Master Class with cast of Legally Blonde taught by Laura Bell Bundy
The Art of the Business of the Theater led by Mitch Weiss
Lenfest/Theater Residency with Actors From the London Stage
Lenfest/Dance Master Class with Jessica Lang Dance
2014-15
The Night of the Iguana
W&L Dancers Create...>Dancing with the Professors
10-Minute Plays, Faculty Advisor, Jemma Alix Levy
The Scary Question
The Death of the Hired Man
The Individuality of Streetlamps
Bentley Musical, Monty Python’s Spamalot
W&L Repertory Dance Company Concert
Master Classes
Dance: Danah Bella, Sept. 2014; Elizabeth Reynolds, Oct. 2014; Emily Ann Cargill
Theater: Devised Theater Master Class taught by Alex Fthenakis, Oct. 2014; Vivian Majkowski, Voice Workshop Nov. 2014; Joshua Productions, Feb. 2015; Lisa Wolpe, Cross Gender Perf., March 2015.
Lenfest/Theater Master Class: Aquila Theatre Company
Lenfest/Dance Master Class: Alonzo King LINES Ballet
2013-2014
The Nerd
10-Minute Plays, Faculty Advisor Joseph Martinez
The Battle of Bull Run Always Makes Me Cry
Post-Its
T-4-2
Replay
Gloom, Doom, And Soul-Crushing Misery
W&L Dancers Create...
Dancing with the Professors
Departmental Collaborative Project: be [you] ty The Beauty Project
Readings
Really Really
Everything Is Probably Going To Be Okay
The Laramie Project
I Am
Lenfest/Theater/Music Master Class: Ivan Rutherford, Les Miserables
2012-13
Bentley Musical, Bye Bye Birdie
Mrs. Warren’s Profession
Arsenic and Old Lace
W&L Repertory Dance Company Concert
Lenfest/Dance Master Class: Trisha Brown<
2011-2012
A Comedy of Errors
Mask Maker David Knezz (guest)
Guest Flournoy Technical Director Anthony Lawrence
Bentley Musical, Cabaret
W&L Dancers Create…
W&L Repertory Dance Company
Rigging D2 Flying Effects
10-Minute Plays
Two Truths and a Lie
Counting Rita
DUMBO (Down Under Manhattan Bridge Overpass)
Table for Three
The James Baldwin Project
Romeo’s Dream Spring Term Project
W&L Dance Company performance at American College Dance Festival
Sweden Study Abroad Trip led by Shawn Paul Evans
Lenfest/Dance Master Class: River North Dance Chicago
2010-2011
Bentley Musical, Assassins
Eurydice
Flournoy Festival: A Kindly Visitation Musical Biography
contemporary Art in Appalachia, DR Mullins
W&L Repertory Dance Company
Lexington’s Letters to the Editor
Lenfest/Theater Master Class: Walnut Street Theatre
Lenfest/Dance Master Class: Ailey
2009-2010
Lenfest/Dance Master Class: Momix
Lenfest/Theater Master Class: Kevin Sprirtas
Flournoy Playwright Festival: Lucy Thurber
Where We’re Born
Reading of Scarcity
10-Minute Plays
W&L Repertory Dance Company
Bentley Musical, Chicago
Student Showcase Movie
2008-2009
Lenfest/Dance Master Class: Lula Washington
Lenfest/Dance Master Class: the Russian National Ballet
Student showcase 2008
Play It Again, Sam
Flournoy Playwright Festival: Christopher Cartmill ’84
The Apotheosis of Vacla Drda
The Nebraska Dispatches (solo performance)
A Reading of The Robbers of Madderbloom
Dance Concert 2009
One Acts 2009
Bentley Musical, The Secret Garden
2007-2008
Othello
Father Frances
Bentley Musical, Little Shop of Horrors
Student Showcase
One Acts: Directing Advisor: Joseph Martinez
Birth of A Blues
The Interrogation
Mosquito Dirigible Aerosol Deodorant
Perfect
The Rothko Room
Repertory Dance Company Concert
Theater Master Classes
Musical Theater with Matt Bogart and Jessica Boevers
Acting For The Camera with Elaine Bromka
Lenfest/Theater Masterclass: Aquila Theatre Catch-22
Lenfest/theater Master Class: Marvin Hamlisch
Guest Dramaturgs:
Todd Ristau – Hollins College and Mill Mountain Theatre
Michelle Volansky – Washington College
Sarah Endloe – American Shakespeare Center
Dance Master Classes
Contact Improvisation with Brad Stoller
Ideokinesis with Liza Deck
A Conversation with Jack Arnold
Plastic Musik with Jeremy Price
Lenfest/Dance Master Class: Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet
Lenfest/Dance Master Class: Tango Buenos Aries Dance Company performance at American College Dance Festival
Reading Days Trip with students to New York City
2006-2007
tits and blood at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Flournoy Playwright Festival with Paula Vogel
How I Learned To Drive
The Long Christmas Ride Home
Oscar and Felix: A New Look At The Odd Couple
Bentley Musical, Kiss Me, Kate
Student Showcase
W&L Repertory Dance Company Concert
One Acts: Directing Advisor: Joseph Martinez
The G Word
After You
Heights
Mafia on Prozac
A Man In A Cage – Wendy Wasserstein Festival at Hollins College
My Name is Rachel Corrie – Paten Hughes, Science, Society and the Arts at Washington and Lee
Guest Artist (puppet master): Nancy Aldrich
Guest Artist (Costume Design and Make-up Artist): Becky Arnold<
Theater Master Classes:
Unarmed Stage Fighting with Colleen Kelly
Musical Theater with Matt Bogart
A Conversation with Paula Vogel
Dance Master Classes:
Urban Bush Women with Maria Bauman
Afro-Cuban Dance with Sandra Meythaler
Classical Ballet with Unar Gunaajav
Lenfest/Dance Master Class: Koresh Dance Company<
Lenfest/Dance Master Class: Moscow Festival Ballet
Dance Company performance at American College Dance Festival
Reading Days Trip with students to New York City
Spring Term London Study Abroad Theater Program
2005-2006
Flournoy Playwright Festival with playwright Neil LaBute: The Shape of Things
Playwright Readings:
Fat Pig
The Mercy Seat
Student Showcase
No Exit
The House of Bernarda Alba
The Pirates of Penzance
One Acts: Directing Advisor: Joseph Martinez
Recklessness
Portrait of a Madonna
Time Flies
You Can’t Trust The Male
Dance Concert – Winter
Dance Concert – Spring/Ten-Year Anniversary Concert
Lenfest/Dance Master Class: The Richmond Ballet
Reading Days Trip with students to New York City
Lenfest/Theater Master Classes: The Flying Karamazov Brothers
Co-sponsor of the Neil LaBute Film Festival
2004-2005
Flournoy Playwright Festival with playwright Bo Wilson
War Story
My Uncle’s Business
Dreaming and Duelling (dv)
The Tamer Tamed
One Acts: Advisor- J.D. Martinez
Bunnies
The Night No One Died
American Tropical
The Bone Violin
The Intervention
Porcelain and Pink
Robert O. and Elizabeth M. Bentley Ignaural: A Blossoming of the Arts
Dance Concert – Winter
Dance Concert – Spring
Lenfest/Dance Master Class: Pilobolus
Theater Guest : David Bergeron/University of Kansas
Reading Days Trip with students to New York City
2003-2004
Flournoy Playwright Festival: The Notebook
Readings with Playwrights:
Monument Avenue
Reign of Tara
The High Water Mark
Uncommon Women and Others
Metamorphoses
Hair
The Golden Goose
Open Stage: Women in Distress
One Acts:
You Oughta Be in Pictures
The Perm
Broken Bones
Blind Harassment
What She Found There
Dance Concert – Winter
Dance Concert – Spring
Lenfest/Dance Master Class: Ailey II
Lenfest/Theater Master Classes: Capitol Steps and Drummers of West Africa
Reading Days Trip with students to New York City
Spring Term London Study Abroad Theater Program
2002-2003
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Working
Top Girls
One Act Plays
Who made Robert Deniro King of America?
The Most Massive Woman Wins
Black Comedy
Flores de Papel
Zoo Story
2001-2002
The Colored Museum
Spinning into Butter<
Godspell (student production of Mindbending Productions)
Wild Oats
The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse
One Act Plays
Andrea’s Got Two Boyfriends
Pitching to the Star
Wildwood Park
Caution to the Wind
2000-2001
School for Scandal
Oleanna
Greater Tuna
The Elephant Man
Company
One Act Plays
Crime Pays After All
The Bald Soprano
The Original Last Wish Baby
The Author’s Voice
1999-2000
Arms and the Man
Biloxi Blues
Falstaff (Chimes at Midnight)
Servant of Two Masters
One Act Plays
The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre
Foreplay of the Art of the Fugue
Misreadings
Teeth
Molly and James
Reverse Transcription
For Whom the Southern Belle Tolls
1998-1999
Rosencrantz and Guilderstern Are Dead
Secret Service
Eccentricities of a Nightingale
Festivals of One Act Plays
You Belong to Me
The Midlife Crisis of Dionysus
An interview
The Actor’s Nightmare
Nice People Dancing to Good Country Music
1997-1998
Uncle Vanya
The Ninth Step
Crimes of the Heart
Twelfth Night
One Act Plays
Impromptu
Here We Are
Businessman’s Lunch
Gladiator
Raimie
The Philadelphia
The Love Talker
1996-1997
One Act Plays
Cannibal Masque
Bad Habits
You Can't Trust the Male
Am I Blue
Importance of Being Earnest Jeffrey
The Rainmaker
Into The Woods
1995-1996
em>Children of a Lesser God
Pretty Fire
Faust
Noises Off
One Act Plays
Sound of a Voice
Wild Rose Branches
Noon
Dreamer
Stonewater Rapture
Cowboy, Indians and Fervent Feminist
1994-95
Other People's Money
Come Down Burning (staged reading, no poster)
She Stoops to Conquer
One Acts
Self-Torture and Strenuous Exercise
The Other Side
Graceland
Hopscotch
Macbeth
1993-94
The Flies
The Lady's Not for Burning
Blithe Spirit
One Acts
Eleemosynary
Sure Thing
Brilliant Traces
The Valentine Fairy
Marriage of Figaro (opera)
1992-93
The Imaginary Invalid
The Heidi Chronicles
Miss Julie
One Acts
Dreams of Glory
Hidden in this Picture
Talk to me Like the Rain and Let me Listen
Say I Love You, but Whisper
Becca
1991-92
Saint Joan of the Stockyards
Perfect Servants
True West
One Acts
The Monkey’s Paw
Naomi in the Living Room
Riders to the Sea
Penguin Blues
Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (musical)
1990-91
The Skin of our Teeth (Feb.)
On the Verge
Talley's Folly (no poster)
Evita (musical)
1989-90
Aladdin
K2
Graceland
Love's the Best Doctor
Romeo and Juliet
1988-89
Steel Magnolias
No Exit
Arden of Feversham
One Acts
Self Torture
Strenuous Exercise
Wormwood
The Stronger
Little Shop of Horrors
1987-88
Three Sisters
Mass Appeal
Six Characters in Search of an Author
ne Acts - Suicide in B flat, The Frog Prince
L'Histoire du Soldat
Wake of Jamie Foster
Henry Street Playhouse
Torebbeaus Mikado
Of Thee I Sing
1986-87
Roscius
Cabaret
Strange Snow
One Acts
The Lesson
The Tiger
Ballad of the Sad Cafe
Henry Street Playhouse
Charley's Aunt
Babes in Arms
Our Town
1986
Merchant of Venice
Bleacher Bums
Lysistrata
One Acct
Master Harold and the Boys
Sister Mary Ignacious
Fool for Love
God
That Championship Season
Viktor Frankenstein
>Henry Street Playhouse
Gigi
Good News
Harvey
1985
June and the Paycock
Purlie Victorious
Of Mice and Men
Galileo
Two Lovers of Verona
Henry Street Playhouse
Life with Father
Annie Get your Gun
Murder at the Vicarage
1984
Roshamon
Love Poems
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
One Acts
Death Knocks
The Informer
Regan Rex
Fantasticks
Henry Street Playhouse
Streets of New York
Peter Pan
Born Yesterday
1983
Man For All Seasons
American Dream
Life in the Theatre
Tea and Sympathy
Midsummer Nights Dream
Henry Street Playhouse
Mornings at Seven
Kiss Me Kate
Seven Year Itch
1982
Cloud Nine
The Country-Wife<
Man of La Mancha
Scapino
Henry Street Playhouse
Pirates of Penzance
Night Must Fall
You Can't Take it With You
1981
Devil's Disciple
Fulgens and Lucrese
The Ninth Step
Look Homeward Angel Diamond Studs
Henry Street Playhouse
Wonderful Town
Our American Cousin
Blithe Spirit
1980
Hamlet
Weeds
Pippin
The Dark of the Moon Glass Menagerie
Henry Street Playhouse
Anything Goes
Under the Gaslight
Arsenic and Old Lace