The Domino Players

The Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival has invited Domino Players productions as showcase performances in the following Region II Festivals:

2004: “Spirale”*
2007: “Waiting for Godot”
2009: “Love’s Labour’s Lost”
2011: “Eurydice”
2013: “A Streetcar Named Desire”
2014: “Vortex”*
2015: “Maelstrom”*
2016 “Clybourne Park”
2017: “Make Democracy Great Again!”*
2019: “A Raisin in the Sun”
2020: “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time”
*Denotes an original production

In 2007, the Domino Players production of “Waiting for Godot” was chosen by the national selection committee for performance in April at the Kennedy Center for the National KCACTF Conference, one of only four college productions selected for that honor.

In 2016, the Domino Players production of “Clybourne Park” was named as the “Outstanding Production of a Play” by the National KCACTF Awards Committee, essentially naming it the best college production of the year.

In 2019, Albright won nine national awards, including once again “Outstanding Production of a Play” for their production of “A Raisin in the Sun.”

Given our vibrant artistic community, it’s little wonder that the creative art of the theatre extends far beyond the main stage of The Domino Players. The Domino Players Studio is a student-run producing organization whose mission is to provide support and guidance for Albright’s young theatre artists. DP Studio accomplishes their mission via an ongoing series of pre-professional workshops and seminars in the areas of playwriting and acting (stage combat, dialects, transition into the profession, etc.). Under its auspices, the group also produces the following events:

• 96-Hour Theatre Collaboratory
  Building on our tradition of creating new work, the DP Studio provides creative support once a year to teams of exhilarated young theatre artists who gather together to envision, develop, rehearse, and perform an evening of original theatre pieces that have all been created with the span of 96 hours.
• Short Play Festival
  Every November the DP Studio produces an evening of completely student created work. Student playwrights, directors, designers, actors, and producers put together an evening of original short plays.
• Green and Growing
  At the end of each semester, two evenings in the Wachovia Theatre are set aside to make room for staged readings of original works by student playwrights, as well as ambitious productions of existing works by student directors. These events have also serve, quite often, as the production aspects of numerous Senior Honors Thesis Projects that are offered by our most gifted matriculating students of the Theatre Department. More specifics about some of these projects can be found by visiting our Student Artistry and Scholarship page on our website.
• Shadow Casts
  For several years now, one of the highlights of the Albright theatre season has been DP Studio ‘shadow cast’ simultaneous-performance productions to the classic cult movies “Mean Girls” and “The Rocky Horror Picture Show.”