OUR HISTORY
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Middlebury Actors Workshop began in the spring of 2001 when a small group of experienced actors got together to conduct an experiment in a communally run theater company. Two summer seasons consisting of six ten-minute plays each were performed in Middlebury to great acclaim. These early productions were produced at the A.R.T. black box theater at the Patricia Hannaford Career Center, and at the old un-renovated Town Hall Theater building. Founding members included Melissa Lourie, Steve Small, Harry McEnerny, Jeanne Rogow, Shannon Bohler and Stephen O'Dwyer.
In 2003 Lourie became Artistic Director and the company added new members Karen Lefkoe & Cyrus Moore. Since then, many of Vermont's finest actors have participated in M.A.W. productions. In 2008, Middlebury Actors Workshop became a resident company of the newly restored Town Hall Theater, inaugurating the new space with an original adaptation of Cyrano de Bergerac by company member Mike Kiernan. In 2009, M.A.W. began producing two shows per year. In 2017 we inaugurated The Cutting Edge Staged Play Reading Series, curated and directed by Rebecca Strum. The Cutting Edge Series offers three contemporary, relevant, intelligent staged readings featuring top Vermont actors, followed by lively talk-backs each year, and has proven to be very popular with our audiences. In 2020 we changed our name to Middlebury Acting Company. We currently produce 3 full productions each season. |
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Chronology of Plays
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2022 The Niceties
2022 Admissions 2021 Constellations 2021 Outside Mullingar 2021 A Christmas Carol 2019 Ada and the Engine 2019 Every Brilliant Thing 2019 Much Ado About Nothing...*at dinner 2018 The Christians 2018 The Turn of The Screw 2017 American Radical 2017 The Metromaniacs 2016 It's A Wonderful Life: A Radio Play 2016 Macbeth 2016 Seminar 2015 Greater Tuna 2015 The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-In-The-Moon Marigolds 2014 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 2014 Summer Shorts 2013 Cat On A Hot Tin Roof 2013 God of Carnage 2012 Richard III |
2012 Circle Mirror Transformation
2011 Of Mice and Men 2011 Body Awareness 2010 Shirley Valentine 2010 The Fox 2010 Streaks of Theatrical Lightning II 2009 On The Verge, or The Geography of Yearning 2009 Speed-The-Plow 2008 Cyrano! 2007 Beyond Therapy 2006 Krapp's Last Tape 2005 Lone Star & Laundry and Bourbon 2004 Dinner With Friends 2003 The Bald Soprano, Babel's In Arms, Handler 2002 Maelstroms, Misunderstandings & Mischief: Six Comic Plays 2001 Streaks of Theatrical Lightning: Six Ten-Minute Plays |