2025-2026 Season
Fall 2025
Hrotsvitha Hremixes
What did those medieval nuns get up to in those cloisters? Hrotsvitha Hremixes presents three new adaptions of 10th Century convent dramas by Hrotsvitha of Gandershiem, overlayed and overlapped with movies like Mean Girls and Pretty Woman. Hrotsvitha Hremixes revolutionizes what you think you know about medieval drama, with plenty of sexy, sadistic, and satirical surprises along the way.
Cast and Creatives
Starring Lucy Curran, Pune Dracker, Kay Healy, Esther Neff, Joel Sedano, Skyi Velasco
Featuring Alison Hyde Pascale as Hrotsvitha and Dr. Lauren Mancia as the Abbess
Playwright: Alison Hyde Pascale
Director and Producer: Philip Wiles
Producer and Stage Manager: Casey Berner
With special thanks to Frank Hentschker and the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center; Patricia Goodson; the Theatre and Performance Program; Crys Pascale; the cast and creative team of Dulcitius: The Mean Girls Play at Villanova Theatre 2023 (Studio Show)
Spring 2026
SHEN DAI IN PARIS
Shen Dai in Paris is a new play by Lun Yang, a rising talent in Chinese playwriting and a current visiting scholar at the Graduate Center, CUNY. The play reevaluates Brecht’s Good Person of Sichuan in light of the most pressing ethical questions of contemporary China, exploring what it means—and what it takes—to be a ‘model citizen.’
Cast and Creatives
Starring Yuchen Ye, Pei Lian Li, Joshua Wu, Anson Chan, Cen Liu, Dorothy Kok, and Jie Ma
Playwright: Lun Yang
Translator: Zhixuan Mia Zhu
Director and Producer: Philip Wiles
Producer and Stage Manager: Casey Berner
With support from: the Sidney E. Cohn Endowed Chair, Graduate Center CUNY; The Theatre and Performance Program, Graduate Center CUNY; the Marvin Carlson Theatre Center, Shanghai Theatre Academy
With special thanks to: Frank Hentschker and the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center; James Wilson; Patricia Goodson; the Theatre and Performance Program.
As I Lay Dying
This reimagining of Faulkner’s Southern Gothic classic incorporates puppetry, bringing new texture and theatricality to a story of family, loss, and the weight of memory. Through inventive staging and embodied storytelling, the production explores how material forms can carry emotion, presence, and perspective in unexpected ways.
Cast and Creatives
Starring Joel Sedano, Alison Hyde Pascale, Souli Boutis, Jae’Bria Robinson-Herbert, Noah Ortega, Stephen Cedars, Brittany Vicars, Joshua Wu, and Pune Dracker
Playwrights: Kay Healy and Nic Bensmiller
Dramaturg: Ashley Malafronte
Director and Producer: Philip Wiles
Producer and Stage Manager: Casey Berner
With support from the Doctoral and Graduate Student Council, Graduate Center CUNY
With special thanks to: Patricia Goodson and the Theatre and Performance Program; Claudia Orenstein; Crys Pascale; Frank Hentschker.
Mopped Stage Productions 