a gender conscious theater company at Stanford University
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2016-2017 Season
HAMLET
(Fall 2017)
Elliot Program Center
November 16-19, 2017
[wit]​​'s Hamlet (Fall 2017) featured an all-female-and-transgender cast, an all-dirt stage, and a truthful retelling of the classic text. It was the senior project for director Ezra Jackson-Smith ('18) and Hamlet actor Tyler Miller ('19).
Director: Ezra Jackson-Smith
Producer: Dan Holland
Stage Manager: Claire Breger-Belsky
Production Stage Manager: Leah Slang
Production Manager: Francesca Watkins
Lighting Designer: Psalm Pineo-Cavanaugh
Set Designer: Charlie Dubach-Reinhold
Graphic Designer: Cortland Bursey-Reese
Cast
Hamlet: Tyler Miller
Claudius: Regan Lavin
Gertrude: Charlie Dubach-Reinhold
Polonius: Eve La Puma
Ophelia: Lili Lim
Laertes: Alexa Luckey
Horatio: Betty Lee
Rosencrantz/Priest: Fiona Hall-Zazueta
Guildenstern/Gravedigger 2:/Ambassador: Claire Lamadrid
Player 1/Gravedigger 1: Claire Breger-Belsky
Fortinbras/Gentlewoman/Marcellus:
Iris Haik
Bernardo/Osric/Lucianus: Katie Fo
Captain/Player Queen: Querida de la Stukes
Ghost: Ezra Jackson-Smith
Doctor Voynich And Her Children (Spring 2018)
Claire Lamadrid ('20) directed Doctor Voynich And Her Children, a new play by Leanna Keyes ('14). This post-Roe v. Wade play about mothers and daughters is poetic, sexy, vulgar, queer, and a little too real.
Director: Claire Lamadrid
Producer: Francesca Watkins
Stage Manager: Charlie O'Donohue
Production Stage Manager: Claire Breger-Belsky
Assistant Stage Manager: Julie Lee
Lighting Designer: [Tyler Miller]
Assistant Lighting Designer: Kaitlyn Khayat
Set Designer: Tyler Miller
Technical Director: Kyler Stanion
Assistant Director: Matt Shimura
Costume Designer: Regan Lavin
Cast
Fade: Lexi Stein
Hannah: Eve La Puma
Jess: Abla Ghaleb
Doctor Voynich/Rue: Lili Lim
Harrison: Kennedy Kidd
Elliot Program
Center
May 3-5, 2018
The second annual New Works Festival featured two short plays by Stanford students, "Prettier than God" by Julianna Yonis and "Fissure" by Spencer Slovic.
"Prettier Than God"
As Amaya embarks on a date with a new girl, Cate, Amaya's roommate is grappling with her own sexuality in the context of her religion. Will Cate's exposure to this new roommate and lifestyle unlike hers push her to embrace parts of her life she didn't know existed?
"Fissure"
Two young women sit on a beach, after the next great West Coast earthquake, and wait for the impending tsunami.