Current Festival
Current Festival
May 1-2, 2025
The Spring 2025 Director’s Festival explores the many ways we can uncover nuanced truths about humanity through radical honesty and relentless vulnerability. The veiled layers of characters’ key relationships reveal the human condition and our constant connection with one another. Whether this is through a married couple’s surprise house guest, an art collector’s long-time best friend, or two school teachers’ entanglement, we see the way interpersonal conflict ends up revealing something much bigger about humanity. With works ranging from realistic dramas all the way to absurdist comedies, this festival is sure to leave its audience curious about their own relationships and the way they can implement honesty and vulnerability within them to lead to deeper understanding.
“What if we lived our lives on the scale we actually feel them?,” “Why do we commit ourselves to people who hold us back spiritually?,” and "How does our body carry its memory with us through the rest of our lives?”
Festival Information
Creative
Faculty Advisor: Michael Alvarez (He/Him) and John Langs(He/Him)
Producer: Breylyn Brown (She/Her)
Dramaturgy: Gianna Marullo (She/Her)
Marketing: Lily Afghani (They/Them) and Mina Oelrich (She/Her)
Deck Stage Manager: Gabe Pettener(He/Him)
Sound Operator: Eryn Lemmert(She/Her)
Lighting: Deandra Bromfield (She/They), Jaidyn Lindsey(She/Her), and Anastasia Dillman(She/They)
Photographer: Lily Afghani(They/Them)
"Wanda’s Visit" by Christopher Durang
Directed by Lily Afghani (They/Them)
Wanda — Real Nero (She/Her)
Marsha — Sophia Del Rey (She/Her)
Jim — Eric Feucht (He/Him)
“5 Women on a Hill in Spain” by Claire Chafee
Directed by Mina Oelrich (She/Her)
X, an amnesiac — Amita Devotta (She/Her)
Valentina, an astronaut — Sabrina Majack (She/They)
Ava, a flirt – Estella Boone(She/Her)
Marie, a cook – Zoe Edwards(They/Them)
Hazel, a writer – Rebecca Lembcke(She/Her)
Lucy, a phone sex operator – Raynah Joi Howard(She/Her)
"Breakfast at the Track" by Lanford Wilson
Directed by Breylyn Brown (She/Her)
Husband — Matías Kruse(He/Him)
Wife — Ellie Chickoree(She/Her)
"How I Learned to Drive" by Paula Vogel
Directed by Gianna Marullo (She/Her)
Li’l Bit — Emma Hart (She/Her)
Peck — Julian Mudge-Burns (He/Him)
Male Greek Chorus — Jake Bryant (They/He)
Female Greek Chorus — Hannah Szemereta (She/Her)
Teenage Greek Chorus — Grace Hoy (She/Her)
“Children’s Hour” by Lillian Hellman
Directed by Eryn Lemmert (She/Her)
Karen Wright — Kara Sparks(She/Her)
Martha Dobie — Raquel Lebish(She/Her)
Joe Cardin — Ben O’Brien(He/Him)
"Art" by Yasmina Reza
Directed by Gabe Pettener (He/Him)
Serge — I’zaah Gray-Jones(He/Him)
Marc — Anton Gillis-Andelman(He/Him)
Yvan — Jahleel Johnson(He/Him)
Schedule and Details
Performances
- May 1, 2025 7:30 p.m.
- May 2, 2025 7:30 p.m.
Location
UNCSA Performance Place - Patrons Theatre
1533 South Main Street, Winston-Salem, NC