Performances

FALL 2022

Written and Directed by Richard Hoehler

SHOWDOWN: John Jay Fall 2022 Student Proction SHOWDOWN, a transformative evening of theatre where actors go head-to-head and toe to toe to find and bring home the truth, will be presented at the Gerald Lynch Theater at John Jay College for Criminal Justice on Tuesday, November 29 and Wednesday, November 30. Performances are at 1:45PM and 7PM each day. Originally produced at Otisville Correctional Facility, SHOWDOWN is a panoply of scenes mirroring classic plays whose conflicts are relevant to the struggles of today. Some comments from audience members who attended the original production at OCF: At the beginning of the show a character said this is all about truth… and my God that’s what it was… truth. It’s a piece of everybody’s life. Everything that you said, everything that you did … You brought me to tears twice, and I’m not an emotional person… I’m better for having been here. SHOWDOWN is written and directed by Richard Hoehler and the twenty-one-member cast (all John Jay students) features Shak Akhtamov, Raul Cobeo, Bianca Cobos, Ana Contreras, Destiny Dean, Lorielle Diaz, Anthony Garcia, Nevaeh Gibson, Charlie Grosso, Benny Heredia, Justo Hierro, Sarah James, Olga Jiminez, Milton Jones, Philip Kasina, Alex Krojcer, Andrez MendezParis, Edward Ortega, Harry Perez, James Ruiz, and Aziz Sharipov. Lighting Design by Michael Abrams, Costume Design by Lexy Ramos, and Sound Design by Jonathan Lorenzo.

PAST CTA Department PERFORMANCES:

FALL 2021

CONCEIVED BY VERNICE MILLER & THE MEB COMPANY

Miss Evers’ Boys* Explores The Events Surrounding The True Story Of The U.S. Government‘S Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment. It Also Sheds Light On Why Today Many Are Fearful Of Getting The Covid-19 Vaccination. 

SPRING 2020

To Comemorate Women’s History Month
Rehearsing the Wannsee Conference

Written by Steven Fechter
Directed by Vernice Miller 

Frame by Frame

A John Jay Virtual Directing Festival

May, 20th, 2020

“We in the Theater always know how to find the stage. And today our stage is YouTube!” -Raymond Johannes Kraft, Company Manager  

A Laboratory for Actor Training Experimental Theater CompanyDRA-301 is a directing class made up of criminal justices students who are intrigued by either the aspect of directing or acting.  Initially the class was meant to be a live and in person, but due to the quarantine that is no longer a possibility. 

FALL 2019

Rehearsing the Wannsee Conference

Written by Steven Fechter    Directed by Vernice Miller

 Follows a college professor and six students of color rehearse a play about the Wannsee Conference. This Conference was a gathering of top Nazi leaders who met outside Berlin in early 1942 to discuss and plan the Final Solution of the Jewish Question: How to eliminate eleven million Jews in Europe. As the students rehearse, playing German Nazis and Jews, they constantly question their own feelings and each other about an event that took place 75 years ago: Why should they care? By examining and debating these past events the students’ own resentments and biases come to the surface. As they delve deeper inside the play and the characters, their understanding and empathy also deepen.

RHINOCEROS

By Ionesco

Directed by Roxane Revon

& Scenography by Nicolas Saint Gregoire

FALL 2018

ASS PLAYS

Written by Steven Fechter & the ALAT Company

Directed by Vernice Miller & Kevaughn Harvey

 

SPRING 2018

DON JUAN

Play by Molière

Directed by Roxane Revon

LOVE... REVENGE... DEATH...

FALL 2017

A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE

A Play about Immigration, Incest, Cultural Mores & Betrayal

BY ARTHUR MILLER

 DIRECTED BY LORRAINE MOLLER

         

SPRING 2017

THE AFRICAN COMPANY PRESENTS RICHARD III

A PLAY BY CARLYLE BROWN

 DIRECTED BY VERNICE MILLER           CHOREOGRAPHED BY MARGIT EDWARDS

 

FALL 2016

Play By Caryl Churchill

Directed by Roxane Revon 

 

SPRING 2016

Play By Anna Deavere Smith

Directed by Lorraine Moller

PAST EVENTS

FALL 2015

THE  EXECUTION  OF  SAINT LUKE

A New Play by Steven Fechter

Directed by Vernice Miller

"Only the executed know to the day, the hour, the minute that they will die." 

 

SPRING 2015

THE JUST ASSASSINS

A play by Albert Camus

Directed by Roxane Revon

THEATRE PRODUCTION

 

BLACK HISTORY MONTH 2015

Prof. Vernice Miller Presentation

With a talk back moderated

by Sociology Professor Michael Rowan

 

 

FALL 2014

JITNEY

by August Wilson

Directed by: Vernice Miller

 

SPRING 2014

RUINED

by Lynn Nottage

Directed by: Margit Edwards

FALL 2013

 BREATH, BOOM!

By: Kia Corthron

Directed by: Lorraine Moller  

 

YUE MADELEINE YUE

By: Jeton Neziraj

Directed by: Margit  Edwards

SPRING 2013

ANTIGONE

By Sophocles

Directed by Jodi Van Der Horn-Gibson

First John Jay Walk Production

Mirante Faculty Dining Terrace May 2013

 

BLOODY BESS  

Directed by Kathryn Wylie-Marques

Gerald W. Lynch Theater

February 2013

August 2012

The Purple Flower

Play from early Harlem Renaissance

Director Jodi Van Der Horn-Gibson and her Cast

In between

Marita & Lengston

Il Furioso Fall 2009

 

West Side Story dance rehearsal

The cast receiving notes from West Side

Hijabi Monologues

Lorraine Moller as Mary M

Arabian Nights

 

Judas Set

Sweeney Ensemble

Sweeney Todd Cast

 

Another Life, by Karen Malpede

Photos by Ari Mintiz

Christen Clifford, Tess, Abbas Noori Abbood, Abdul

George Bartenieff as Handel, Christen Clifford, Tess