OUR HISTORY

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.

Chronology of Plays

2025     The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey
2025     Wharton Between the Sheets
2025     Parent On Board, a sketch comedy show
2025     A Christmas Carol
2024     O'Carolan's Farewell to Music
2024     Hundred Days
​2024     The Cherry Orchard
2023     Small Mouth Sounds
2023     Robert Frost: This Verse Business
2023     A Christmas Carol
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
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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