UMBC Department of Theatre
Production History
1960s and 1970s
1979-80
5/80 Three From Spain
May 1-3, 7-9, 1980
Direction Wendy Salkind
Set Design William T. Brown
Costume Design Janet Neil
Light Design Janet Neil, William T. Brown
Guitarist and Musical Advisor Ronald Pearl
12/79 The Cherry Orchard
by Anton Chekhov
December 5-8, 12-15, 1979
Director Xerxes Mehta
Set Designer Tom Arntsen
Costume Designer Janet Neal
Light Designer Sandy Chen (Student)
Pianist and Composer Nessi Guenschel
Electronic Sound Bill Tudor
Environmental Sound David Thompson
Margaret Gunther
Property Design Anne Burnes
Dance Choreography Jeff Duncan
11/79 The Man Who Came to Dinner
by Kaufman & Hart
November 7-10, 1979
Direction Alice Robinson
Set Design William T. Brown
1978-79
5/79 The Country Wife
by William Wycherley
May 10-12, 17-19, 1979
Direction Jackson J. Phippen
Set Design Thomas S. Arntsen
Costume Design Janet Snyder Neil
Light Design Greg Mason
Make-up Design Thom Ballantine
12/78 Beckett
Play, Act Without Words II, Not I, Footfalls, Breath
by Samuel Beckett
December 6-9,13-16, 1978
Direction Xerxes Mehta
Set Design Tom Arntsen (Breath)
Janet Neil (Footfalls)
Diana Bisser (Play) (Student)
Sandra Chen (Act Without Words)(Student)
Peggy Surgent (Not I) (Student)
**Selected for both regional & national competition,
American College Theatre Festival
1977-78
5/78 Saved
by Edward Bond
May 4-6, 11-13, 18-20, 1978
Direction Jackson Phippen
Design Thomas Arntsen
Janet Neil
12/77 The Caucasian Chalk Circle
by Berbolt Brecht
December 1-3, 8-11, 1977
Direction Xerxes Mehta
Set Design William T. Brown
Costume Design Janet Neil
Light Design Janet Neil, John Russell (Student)
1976-77
5/77 The Marriage of Figaro
by Mozart
May 6, 7, 10, 11, 13, 14, 1977
Direction Xerxes Mehta
Musical Director/Conductor Samuel Gordon
Set/Light Design Thomas Arntsen
Costume Design Janet Neil
Choreography Judith Jacobs
5/77 Lysistrata
by Aristophanes
tranlated by Douglass Parker
May 12-14, 19-21, 1977
Direction Jackson Phippen
Set Design William T. Brown
Costume Design Janel Neil
Light Design Thomas Arntsen
12/76 Woyzeck
by Georg Buchner
Direction Xerxes Mehta
Set/Light Design Thomas Arntsen
Costume/Makeup Design Janet Neil
Music/Technical Supervision Katji Kelly
1975-76
3/76 Servant of Two Masters
by Carlo Goldoni
March 11-13, 17-20, 1976
Direction Evzen Drmola
Set/Costume Design Nancy Potts
Light Design Thomas Arntsen
Music/Lyrics Robert Marvin
Choreography Cynthia Sontag
11/75 Antigone
by Sophocles
An adaptation from Holderlin, Brecht and Fitzgerald
November 13-15, 19-21, 1975
Direction Evzen Drmola
Set Design William T. Brown
Costume Design Nancy Potts
Light Design Thomas Arntsen
Pottery Design Bernard Penner
Original Music Felix Powell
1975 Summer Repertory
8/75 The Children's Hour
by Lillian Hellman
August 6-9, 1975
Direction William T. Brown
Set Design William T. Brown
Light Design Ken Irwin (Student)
7/75 Lovers and Other Strangers
by Renee Taylor & Joseph Bologna
July 9-12, 1975
Direction William T. Brown
Set Design William T. Brown
Light Design Ken Irwin
1974-75
5/75 Hedda Gabler
by Henrik Ibsen
May 1-3, 7-10, 1975
Direction Patricia Montley
Set Design William T. Brown
Costume Design Robert M. Arnold
Light Design Thomas S. Arntsen III
3/75 The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail
by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee
March 13-15 and 19-22, 1975
Direction Alice E. Robinson
Set/Light Design Thomas S. Arntson
Costume Design Robert M. Arnold
11/74 R.U.R.
by Karel Capek
Nov. 7-9, 13-16, 1974
Direction Dr. Anne Reid
Set Design William T. Brown
10/74 The Lesson
by Eugene Ionesco
October 16-19, 1974
Direction Robert M. Arnold
Set Design Thomas Arntsen
Costume Design Robert M. Arnold
Light Design Lynn Hyman
1974 Summer Repertory
7,8/74 You Can't Take It With You
by George Kaufman & Moss Hart
July ,August 12, 15, 1974
Direction Robert M. Arnold
Set Design William Brown
Costumes coordinated Robert M. Arnold
7,8/74 The Secret Affairs of Mildred Wild
by Paul Zindel
July 18-20, August 13,16, 1974
Direction William T. Brown
Set Design William T. Brown
Costumes Robert M. Arnold
7,8/74 You're A Good Man Charlie Brown
By Clark Gesner
July, August 14, 17, 1974
April 14,15, 1975 - ACTF
Direction Craig Montgomery
Set Design William T. Brown
Costume Design Robert M. Arnold
Light Design Judy Holland
**Selected for both regional & national competition, American College
Theatre Festival
1973-74
4/74 Tartuffe
by Molière
April 25-27, May 1-4, 1973
Direction Alice Robinson
Set Design William T. Brown
Costume Design Robert M. Arnold
Light Design Richard E. Snyder, Jr.
3/74 Gallows Humor
by Jack Richardson
March 21-23, 1974
3/74 The Firebugs
by Max Frisch
March 7-9, 13-16, 1973
Direction Robert Arnold
Set Design Peggy Parks
Costume Design Robert Emmet Hegarty
Light Design D. Lynn Hyman
11/73 The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
by Jay Presson Allen
Nov. 28-30, Dec 1, 6-8, 1973
Direction Patricia Montley
Set Design David P. Peter
Costume Design Robert M. Arnold
Light Design Thomas Christopulos
Rick Snyder
10/73 Murder in the Cathedral
by T. S. Eliot
October 10-13, 18-20, 1973
Direction Anne Reid
Set Design William T. Brown
Costume Design Robert M. Arnold
Light Design Lynn Hyman
Music Felix Powell
Choreographer Diane Shaub
* Selected for regional competition, American College Theatre Festival
1973 Summer Repertory
8/73 A Midsummer Night's Dream
by William Shakespeare
August 2, 3, 4, 15, 16, 1973
Direction Will Hicks
Design William T. Brown
Costume Robert Arnold
7,8/73 Strange Bedfellows
by Florence Ryerson & Colin Clements
July 5, 6, 7 and August 13, 16, 1973
Direction Will Hicks
Design William T. Brown
Costumes Robert Arnold
7,8/73 See How They Run
by Philip King
July 19-21, August 14, 17, 1973
Direction William T. Brown
Set Design Pat Barranger
Costumes Robert Arnold
1972-73
5/73 Ali Baba
Children's Theatre
May 9-12, 1973
4/73 John Brown's Body
by Stephen Vincent Benet
April 26,29, 1973
Direction Alice Robinson
Costume Design Robert M. Arnold
Set/Light Design Peggy Parks
4/73 The Skin of Our Teeth
by Thornton Wilder
April 11-14, 1973
Direction Dr. Anne Cook Reid
Set Design William T. Brown
Costume Design Robert M. Arnold
Light Design Rosemary Connelly
3/73 The Physicists
by Frederick Durenmatt
Translated by James Kirkup
March 7-10, 1973
Direction Will Hicks
Set Design William T. Brown
Costume Design Robert M. Arnold
Lighting Designer D. Lynn Hyman
2/73 Dames at Sea
Sage Players
February 7-10, 1973
12/72 The Second Shepherd's Play
Anonymous
Adapted by David Ball
December 7-9, 1972
Direction Patricia Montley
Set Design Eileen Albert
Costume Design Robert M. Arnold
Light Design Peggy Parks
11/72 The Whitehouse Murder Case
by Jules Feiffer
November 2-4, 1972
Direction Will Hicks
Set Design William T. Brown
Light Design Rosemary Connelly
Costumer S. Dell Frank
* Selected for regional competition, American College Theatre Festival
10/72 Royal Gambit
by Hermann Gressieker
October 25-28, 1972
Direction Alice Robinson
Set Design William T. Brown
Costume Design Robert M. Arnold
Light Design James R. Holladay
9/72 Tiger at the Gate
by Jean Girandoux
September 27-30, 1972
Direction Will Hicks
Set Design William T. Brown
Costume Design Robert Arnold
1972 Summer Repertory
7/72 The Matchmaker
by Thornton Wilder
July 13, 14, 15, August 8, 11, 1972
Direction William T. Brown
Set Design William T. Brown
Costume Design Sherry Frank
7/72 The Beggar's Opera
by John Gay
July 27-29, August 9,12, 1972
Direction Will Hicks
Musical Direction John Taylor
Set Design William T. Brown
Costumer Sherry Frank
6/72 The Whitehouse Murder Case
by Jules Feiffer
June 29, 30, July 1, August 7, 10, 1972
Direction Will Hicks
Set Design William T. Brown
Costumer S. Dell Frank
1971-72
5/72 The Singing Shoemaker (Children's Theatre)
May, 1972
Direction Petza
Design Peggy Parks
4/72 Spanish Play
April, 1972
3/72 Vaudeville Review
March, 1972
3/72 The Devil's Disciple
by Bernard Shaw
March 22-25, 1972
Direction Will Hicks
Set Design William T. Brown
Light Design Rosemary Connelly
Costume Design Charlotte Starbird
12/71 Speaking of Murder
by Audrey & William Roos
December , 1971
Direction William T. Brown
Set Design William T. Brown
10/71 The Bacchae
by Euripides
October 13-16, 1971
Direction Will Hicks
Barbara Hicks
Set/Light Design William T. Brown
Costumer Sherry Frank
8/71 Summer Repertory Theatre
You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water's Running
By Robert Anderson
August 9, 12, 1971
Direction Will Hicks
Set Design William T. Brown
Costume Design Sherry Frank
8/71 Blithe Spirit
by Noel Coward
August 10, 13, 1971
Direction William T. Brown
Set Design William T. Brown
Costume Design Sherry Frank
8/71 *The Lark
by Jean Anouilh
(Trans. Lillian Hellman)
August 11, 14, 1971
Direction Will Hicks
Set Design William T. Brown
Costume Design Sherry Frank
* Selected for regional competition, American College Theatre Festival
1970-71
5/71 Othello
by William Shakespeare
May, 1971
Direction Wendy Nelson
Set Design William T. Brown
Costume Design Charlotte Starbird
3/71 I Knock at the Door
by Sean O'Casey
Adapted by Paul Shyre
March 24-27, 1971
Direction AliceRobinson
Set/Light Design William T. Brown
Costume Design Priscilla B. Connors
12/70 The Importance of Being Ernest
by Oscar Wilde
December 9-12, 1970
Direction Wendy Nelson
Set Design William T. Brown
Costume Design Charlotte Starbird
11/70 The Typists
by Murray Schisgal
November, 1970
10/70 The Unknown Soldier and His Wife
by Peter Ustinov
October 14-17, 1970
Direction William Hicks
Set/Light Design William T. Brown
1969-70
5/70 Twelfth Night
by William Shakespeare
May 13-16, 1970
Direction Will Hicks
Set/Light Design Bob Harkum
Costume Design Priscilla Barth
4/70 Three One Acts
April 24, 25, 1970
Icarus's Mother
by Sam Shepard
Director Hicks
The Purification
by Tennessee Williams
Direction Peggy von Briesen
Fumed Oak
by Noel Coward
Direction Robert G. Shedd
Set Design Clyde Blakeley
Light Design Robert Harkum
3/70 Spoon River Anthology
by Edgar Lee Masters
March 18-21, 1970
Direction Alice Robinson
Design Alice Robinson
1968-69
5/69 Stop the World I Want to Get Off
Music by Anthony Newley and Leslie Bricusse
Lyrics by Anthony Newley and Leslie Bricusse
May, 1969
Direction Clyde Rader
3/69 Galileo
by Bertolt Brecht
English Version by Charles Laughton
The UMBC SAGE PLAYERS
March 26-29, 1969
Direction Alice Robinson
Set Design Patrick J. Canavan
3/69 Antigone
by Jean Anouilh
Adapted by Lewis Galantiere
The UMBC SAGE PLAYERS
March 21-23, 1969
Direction Alice Robinson
Design Alice Robinson
11/68 The Crucible
by Arthur Miller
November 13-16, 1968
Direction William Hicks
Set/Light Design Clyde Blakley
1967-68
/68 Bus Stop
by William Inge
Direction Alice Robinson
Design Clyde Rader
1966-67
The Male Animal
by James Thurber
Direction Alice Robinson
Design Alice Robinson