Theatre Performances
All Fall and Spring 2024–25 theatre performances will be in-person. Production information
is listed below.
Montgomery College's College Performing Arts Series productions often contain adult language and situations. Some productions include discussions of sexuality, sexual abuse, and/or cultural and personal violence.
Purchase TicketsTo recommend a play for Department consideration, please complete and submit this MC Theatre Play Suggestion formnew window.
Students interested in supporting the productions as performers or management may email Professor Alby; and as management, technicians, or crew email Professor Hengen for more information.
Theatre Season 2024-25
NOTICE: Auditions for the Fall semester 2024 will be for both shows.
Auditions: Wednesday, September 10 & Thursday, September 12, 6 p.m.–9 p.m.
Callbacks: Friday, September 13, noon–4 p.m.
Location: Theatre Arts Arena (TA)
Audition sign up form can be found here: MC Fall Auditionsnew window. After submitting the form an audition time will be assigned.
Auditionees can prepare a verse monologue (i.e. Shakespeare/Moliere/Ives) and a joke or short physical comedy routine. Sides for the audition can also be found in the Theatre main office.
Two workshops focusing on stylized performance will be offered Friday, September 6, 11 a.m. and Monday, September 9, 11 a.m. in TA 148. Auditionees are advised to attend both.
The Liar
Written by David Ives, adapted from the comedy by Pierre Corneille
Directed by Tyler Herman
Wednesday, October 23 to Saturday, October 26, 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, October 27, 2 p.m.
Theatre Arts Arena, Rockville campus (map)
The Liar is presented by arrangement with Dramatists Play Service new window
“Paris, 1643. Dorante is a charming young man newly arrived in the capital, and he
has but a single flaw: He cannot tell the truth. In quick succession he meets Cliton,
a manservant who cannot tell a lie, and falls in love with Clarice, a charming young
woman whom he unfortunately mistakes for her friend Lucrece. What our hero regrettably
does not know is that Clarice is secretly engaged to his best friend, Alcippe. Nor
is he aware that his father is trying to get him married to Clarice, whom he thinks
is Lucrece, who actually is in love with him. From all these misunderstandings and
a series of breathtakingly intricate lies springs one of the Western world's greatest
comedies, a sparkling urban romance as fresh as the day Pierre Corneille wrote it,
brilliantly adapted for today by All in the Timing's David Ives.”
~ Dramatists Play Servicenew window
TicketsPOTUS, or, Behind Every Great Dumbass are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive
Written by Selina Fillinger
Directed by Irene Alby
Wednesday, November 13 to Saturday, November 16, 7:30 p.m.
and Sunday, November 17, 2 p.m.
Theatre Arts Arena, Rockville campus (map)
POTUS is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricalsnew window
“One four-letter word is about to rock 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. When the President
unwittingly spins a PR nightmare into a global crisis, the seven brilliant and beleaguered
women he relies upon most risk life, liberty, and the pursuit of sanity to keep the
commander-in-chief out of trouble.
Selina Fillinger's brilliant, all-female farce took Broadway by storm in a star-studded production that earned three 2022 Tony nominations.”
~ Concord Theatricalsnew window
TicketsGrease
Book, Music and Lyrics by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey
Directed by Ian Anthony Coleman
Music Direction by Dr. Jay Crowder
Wednesday, February 26 to Saturday, March 1, 7:30 p.m.
and Sunday, March 2, 2 p.m.
Parilla Performing Arts Center, Rockville campus (map)
Grease is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricalsnew window
“Here is Rydell High's senior class of 1959: duck-tailed, hot-rodding "Burger Palace
Boys" and their gum-snapping, hip-shaking "Pink Ladies" in bobby sox and pedal pushers,
evoking the look and sound of the 1950s in this rollicking musical. Head "greaser"
Danny Zuko and new (good) girl Sandy Dumbrowski try to relive the high romance of
their "Summer Nights" as the rest of the gang sings and dances its way through such
songs as "Greased Lightnin'," "It's Raining on Prom Night," "Alone at the Drive-In
Movie" recalling the music of Buddy Holly, Little Richard, and Elvis Presley that
became the soundtrack of a generation. An eight-year run on Broadway and two subsequent
revivals, along with innumerable school and community productions place Grease among
the world's most popular musicals.”
~ Concord Theatricalsnew window
Alumni in the Working World
Join our network of talented alumni who currently work professionally in theatres across the DC Area and nationally.
Awa Sal Secka (AA Performing Arts, Montgomery College)
- Helen Hayes Award nomination for Outstanding Supporting Performer in a Musical for Signature Theatre's Ragtime
- Charles MacArthur Award for Outstanding New Play or Musical Adaptation for co-writing The Joy That Carries You at Olney Theatre Center
- Selected credits: NY/Berkeley Rep: Goddess 2021/2023 Workshop (Zawadi), Grace Workshop (Jackie). Regional: PAPER MILL; SIGNATURE: Ragtime (Sarah), Gun and Powder (Flo), Jesus Christ Superstar (Simon), Broadway in the Park, Signature Vinyl. FORD’S: Into the Woods (Baker’s Wife), The Wiz (Glinda/Dorothy u/s), Christmas Carol (Fred’s Wife). ROUND HOUSE: School Girls (Ama), Caroline, or Change (Dottie). THEATRE J: Intimate Apparel (Mayme), Gloria: A Life (Flo Kennedy). KENNEDY CENTER: Me…Jane (Maisie), Chasing the Wind (Abby).
Helen Garcia-Alton (AA Technical Theatre, Montgomery College), CNN Staff Lighting Director
- Helen Hayes nomination for lighting design: How the Light Gets in (1st Stage)
- M.F.A. Lighting Design University of Tennessee Knoxville
- B.S. Theatre Design and Production Towson University
Lillie Kahkonen-Timlin, Lighting Designer
- M.F.A. Theatrical Lighting Design, University of Florida; B.S. Technical Theatre, Towson
- A Raisin in the Sun Atlas Performing Arts Center (VOCA);Bel Cantanti Opera Company; Digital Lightning
Shaquille Stewart (AA Performing Arts, Montgomery College), Executive Director, Silver Springs Stage
Audra Jacobs (AA Performing Arts, Montgomery College), Connectivity Director, 1st Stage Theatre
- B.S. Theatre-Acting and Directing Bowie State University
Dan Mori (AA Theatre Performance Montgomery College), Theatrical Technical Director, for City of North Glenn, Denver Colorado
Rooster Skylar Sultan (AA in Technical Theatre), DC Based Freelance Props designer and Teaching Artist at Adventure Theatre
- Selected Credits: Woolly Mammoth Theatre; MC Summer Dinner Theatre; Rorschak Theatre; Theatre Prometheus; and many others
David Singleton (AA Theatre Performance, Montgomery College), MD based performer, choreographer, and Drag Superstar
- TOBYS: A Chorus Line (Bobby); The Spongebob Musical (Choreographer) Helen Hayes Nomination Best Choreography) Kinky Boots (Angel/Co Choreographer), Dreamgirls, Young Frankenstein (Ziggy), Newsies, The Bodyguard. OLNEY THEATRE CENTER: Kinky Boots (Angel), Beauty, and the Beast, Elf. Artscentric: RENT (Angel), Sister Act (TJ), Snapshots.
Jonathan Hsu, Dancer/Choreographer
- B.A. in Dance and B.S. in Kinesiology
- Company member of Orange Grove Dance. Danced with: Rennie Harris Puremovement, PEARSONWIDRIG DANCETHEATER, Project Charma, Treehouse, Culture Shock DC, and VF Dance Theater in the past. International tours: Russia, Cuba, Germany, the Kennedy Center Terrace Theatre, Florida, New York, San Diego, as well as many local venues throughout Maryland, DC, and Virginia.
Meredith Rabil Sibley
- B.A. Dance Performance University of North Carolina at Greensboro
- Dance Teacher and Dance Company Director at Northeast High School
- Selected Dance Credits: Deviated Theatre (2009-2012); Deep Vision Dance Company (2013); VF Dance Theater (2013-2015); and Trajectory Dance Project (2016-2020); Kennedy Center; Millennium Stage; Dance Place; American Dance Institute
Tommy Parlon, Associate Professor of Dance at the Community College of Baltimore County.
- M.F.A. in Dance (Choreography and Technology) Arizona State University; B.F.A. in Dance and Choreography,Virginia Commonwealth University.
- Selected Credits: J. Fregalette Janson Dance (NY); Centaur Dance Theatre (NY); Beyondance Inc! (NY); FIASCO (Paris). Worked with: Doug Varone, Stephen Petronio, Alvin Mayes, Laura Dean and Elizabeth Streb. Choreography commissions: Incidents Physical Theater (NY); NEW ARTiculations (Arizona); Lansing Chamber Dance (Michigan).
Jose Abraham, Assistant Technical Director Round House Theatre
Brian McDermott, Technical Director at Catholic University
Matt Nielson, Sound Designer North Carolina
Soloman Parker III, Actor
- Helen Hayes Award nomination for Outstanding Supporting Performer in a Musical for Signature Theatre's The Color Purple
- Kinky Boots at Olney Theatre; Numerous performances at Imagination Stage, Signature Theatre, Toby’s Dinner Theatre, Ford’s Theatre
Gregory Condon, Technical Director, Stephen F. Austin University
- Selected credits: Design Foundry, Rorschach Theatre, Flying V Theatre and Royal Caribbean Cruises
- M.F.A. UNC Chapel Hill; B.S. Theatre, Towson University
Beau Hamilton, Wardrobe Coordinator at the Houston Ballet
Brianna Capps, Stage Manager for Norwegian Cruise Lines
Andrew Griffin, Lighting Designer/Theatre Consultant for Nextstage Design
- M.F.A. in Lighting Design from Yale
- NY Credits: Goldstein (Off-Broadway, Actors Temple) The War Boys (Access Theatre); Lucie Pohl: Hi Hitler! (Cherry Lane) Midsummer (TiltYArd). Selected Regional credits: Folger theatre; Yale Rep; Le Petite Theatre du Vieux Carre; Delaware Theatre Company; Woolly Mammoth; Olney Theatre Center; Theatre J; Signature Theatre; Synetic Theatre; American Conservatory Theatre; Old Globe; Seattle Rep.
Marisa “Za” Johns, Paint Shop foreman at Design Foundry
Ian Jordan, Carpenter/Electrician at Design Foundry
Christopher Gaut, Master Carpenter at Imagination Stage
Juan David Ramirez-Cortes, has mixed sound all over the area, including at Wolftrap