CSUB Theatrefest Seasons
2023-2024
The Courage to Right a Woman's Wrongs (director: David Melendez)
Theatre for Young Audiences: "Carmela Full of Wishes" (director: Amy Ressler)
The River Bride (director: Mandy Rees)
Theatre of New Voices (student directors)
2022-2023
Little Shop of Horrors (director: Mandy Rees)
Theatre for Young Audiences: "Tomato Plant Girl" (director: Amy Ressler)
Sweat (directors: Judd Johnson, Mandy Rees)
The Last Croissant (director: David Melendez)
2021-2022
The First Degree (director: Mandy Rees)
Theatre for Young Audiences: "Noodle Doodle Box" (director: Amy Ressler)
Shakespeare Unmasked: Celebrating Shakespeare's Women (director: Mendy McMasters)
Theatre of New Voices (student directors)
2020-2021
Tales from the Vault of Fear (director: Zoe Saba)
Thursday Stories Live! (director: Amy Ressler)
She Kills Monsters: Virtual Realms (director: Mandy Rees)
2019-2020
Antigone (director: Dave Peterson)
Theatre for Young Audiences: "The Pickle Patch Bathtub" (director: Amy Ressler)
The Who's Tommy (director: Mandy Rees)
Theatre of New Voices (student directors)
2018-19
Dreamers: Aquí y Allá (director: Mandy Rees)
The Dining Room (director: Zoe Saba)
Harvey (director: Dave Peterson)
Theatre for Young Audiences: "Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse" (director: Amy Ressler)
2017-2018
The Profane (director: Mandy Rees)
Theatre for Young Audiences: "Unsorted" (director: Kamala Boeck)
Theatre of New Voices (student directors)
The Importance of Being Earnest (director: Maria-Tania Becerra)
- 2016-2017
- Love's Labour's Lost (director: Zoe Saba)
- Theatre for Young Audiences: "There’s an Alligator Under My Bed, A Nightmare in My Closet, and Something in My Attic" (director: Kamala Boeck)
- The Eccentricities of a Nightingale (director: Maria-Tania Becerra)
- Pippin (director: Mandy Rees)
- 2015-2016
The Servant of Two Masters (director: Mandy Rees)
- Theatre of New Voices (student directors)
- La Gringa (director: Maria-Tania Becerra)
- Theatre for Young Audiences: "Aladdin" (director: Kamala Boeck)
- 2014-2015
From Dust Thou Art (director: Mandy Rees)
Lorca in a Green Dress (director: Maria-Tania Becerra)
The Gamester (director: Zoe Saba)
Theatre for Young Audiences: "The Water Play" (director: Kamala Kruszka)
- 2013-2014
- Living Out (director: Maria-Tania Becerra)
- Theatre of New Voices (student directors)
- Hairspray (director: Mandy Rees)
- Theatre for Young Audiences: "Dust Bowl Dreams" (director: Kamala Kruszka)
- 2012-2013
- Dracula (director: Mandy Rees)
- The Taming of the Shrew (director: Zoe Saba)
- The Cherry Orchard (director: Maria-Tania Becerra)
- Theatre for Young Audiences: "The Imaginators" (director: Kamala Kruszka)
- 2011-2012
- A Lesson Before Dying (director: Maria-Tania Becerra)
- Theatre of New Voices (student directors)
- Hotel Paradiso (director: Mandy Rees)
- Theatre for Young Audiences: "The Talking Stick" (director: Kamala Kruszka)
- 2010-2011
- Tartuffe (director: Zoe Saba)
- The Marriage of Bette and Boo (director: Maria-Tania Becerra)
- Chicago (director: Mandy Rees)
- Theatre for Young Audiences: "New Kid" (director: Kamala Kruszka)
- 2009-2010
- Scepter in the Sand (director: Mandy Rees)
- Theatre of New Voices (student directors)
- Merry Wives of Windsor (director: Maria-Tania Becerra)
- Theatre for Young Audiences: "Arkansaw Bear" (director: Kamala Kruszka)
- 2008-2009
- Picasso at the Lapin Agile (director: Zoe Saba)
- Everyman (director: Mandy Rees)
- Anna in the Tropics (director: Maria-Tania Becerra)
- Theatre for Young Audiences: "Gold Fever" (director: Kamala Kruszka)
- 2007-2008
- Lend Me a Tenor (director: Zoe Saba)
- Theatre of New Voices (student directors)
- Evita (director: Mandy Rees)
- Theatre for Young Audiences: "Skupper-Duppers" (director: Kamala Kruszka)
- 2006-2007
- Nickel and Dimed (director: Mandy Rees)
- Antigone in New York (director: Maria-Tania Becerra)
- ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore (director: Kenneth Elliott)
- Theatre for Young Audiences: "Wiley and the Hairy Man" (director: Kamala Kruszka)
- 2005-2006
- Electricidad (director: Kenneth Elliott)
- Theatre of New Voices (student directors)
- Twelfth Night (director: Anita DuPratt)
- Theatre for Young Audiences: "The Talking Stick" (director: Kamala Kruszka)
- 2004-2005
- A Doll’s House (director: Anita DuPratt)
- Home (director: Cynthia Martin)
- Proof (director: Kenneth Elliott)
- The Boy Friend (director: Mandy Rees)
- Theatre for Young Audiences: "James and the Giant Peach" (director: Cynthia Martin)
- 2003-2004
- Agnes of God (director: Anita DuPratt)
- Theatre of New Voices (student directors)
- What the Butler Saw (director: Donald LaPlant)
- Theatre for Young Audiences: "Fabulous Fable Factory" (director: Cynthia Martin)
- 2002-2003
- A View from the Bridge (director: Anita DuPratt)
- Absurd Shorts (one-act absurdist plays) (director: Donald LaPlant)
- Comedy of Errors (director: Mandy Rees)
- Theatre for Young Audiences: "Androcles and the Lion" (director: Amy Schaumburg)
- 2001-2002
- Theatre of New Voices (student directors)
- The Misanthrope (director: Donald LaPlant)
- Company (director: Mandy Rees)
- Theatre for Young Audiences: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (director: Amy Schaumburg)
- 2000-2001
- Postmortem (director: Mandy Rees)
- The Children’s Hour (director: Anita DuPratt)
- Romeo and Juliet (director: Jeffrey D. Mason)
- Theatre for Young Audiences: "Only My Imagination" (director: Amy Schaumburg)
- 1999-2000
- Theatre of New Voices (student directors)
- Our Town (director: Anita DuPratt)
- The Real Thing (director: Jeffrey D. Mason)
- Theatre for Young Audiences: "The Trouble With Nick" (director: Amy Schaumburg)
- 1998-1999
- The Heidi Chronicles (director: Anita DuPratt)
- Rhinoceros (director: Amy Schaumburg)
- Doré Theatre 20th Anniversary Gala, May 1999: My Fair Lady (director: Mandy Rees)
- Theatre for Young Audiences: "The Dinosaur Play" (student director)
- 1997-1998
- Blue Window (director: Anita DuPratt)
- Noises Off (director: Mandy Rees)
- Macbeth (director: Jeffrey D. Mason)
- Theatre for Young Audiences: "Dream Weaver" (director: Amy Schaumburg)
- 1996-1997
- Vinegar Tom (director: Anita DuPratt)
- Bedroom Farce (director: Paige Newmark)
- The Secret Garden (director: Mandy Rees)
- Theatre for Young Audiences: "The Lollipop Machine" (director: Mandy Rees)
- 1995-1996
- Chekhov in Yalta (director: Jeffrey D. Mason)
- Medea (director: Mandy Rees)
- The Boys Next Door (director: Anita DuPratt)
- Theatre for Young Audiences: "The Tale of the Dragonhazenfugen Festival"(director: Mandy Rees)
- 1994-1995
- A Bold Strike for a Wife (director: Anita DuPratt)
- Six Characters in Search of an Author (director: Lani Harris)
- Anything Goes (director: Mandy Rees)
- Theatre for Young Audiences: "My Own Fantastic Adventure" (director: Mandy Rees)
- 1993-1994
- Green Card (director: Anita DuPratt)
- Picnic (director: Mandy Rees)
- Taming of the Shrew (director: Jeffrey D. Mason)
- Theatre for Young Audiences: "Three Topsy-Turvy Tales" (director: Mandy Rees)
- 1992-1993
- Our Country’s Good (director: Anita DuPratt)
- Pippin (director: Mandy Rees)
- I Hate Hamlet (director: Heidi Helen Davis)
- Theatre for Young Audiences: "I Sailed with Columbus" (director: Mandy Rees)
- 1991-1992
- All My Sons (director: Anita DuPratt)
- School for Scandal (director: Mandy Rees)
- True West (director: Jeffrey D. Mason)
- Theatre for Young Audiences: "Snow White & the Five D.W.A.R.F.S" (director: Mandy Rees)
- 1990-1991
- HOT L Baltimore (director: Anita DuPratt)
- The Foreigner (director: Mandy Rees)
- U.S.A. (director: Jeffrey D. Mason)
- 1989-1990
- Crimes of the Heart (director: Anita DuPratt)
- The Diviners (director: Bill DeLuca)
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream (director: Jeffrey D. Mason)
- 1988-1989
- Brighton Beach Memoirs (director: Anita DuPratt)
- Camille (director: Jeffrey D. Mason)
- What the Butler Saw (director: Fred Fate)
- 1987-1988
- The Contrast (director: Jeffrey D. Mason)
- Jitters (director: Anita DuPratt)
- Sherlock Holmes: The Legend (director: Jeffrey D. Mason)
- 1986-1987
- No Exit (director: Anita DuPratt)
- The Glass Menagerie (director: Jeffrey D. Mason)
- Top Girls (director: Anita DuPratt)
- 1985-1986
- Measure for Measure (director: Anita DuPratt)
- Candida (director: Jeffrey D. Mason)
- "The Real Inspector Hound"; "The Fifteen Minute Hamlet" (director: Jeffrey D. Mason)
- 1984-1985
- Antigone (director: Anita DuPratt)
- Come back to the 5 & dime Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (director: Jeffrey D. Mason)
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (director: Anita DuPratt)
- 1983-1984
- From Dust Thou Art (revival from the previous season) (director: Peter Grego)
- Getting Out (director: Anita Cowan)
- Shakespeare’s Lovers (director: Anita Cowan)
- 1982-1983
- Ghosts (director: Peter Grego)
- From Dust Thou Art (director: Peter Grego)
- The House of Blue Leaves (director: Anita Cowan)
- 1981-1982
- The Threepenny Opera (director: Peter Grego)
- The Runner Stumbles (director: Anita Cowan)
- An American Sampler: "The Long Christmas Dinner" & "A Voice Through the Door" (director: Peter Grego)
- 1980-1981
- Trial by Jury (director: Peter Grego)
- The Shadow Box (director: Peter Grego)
- Buried Child (director: Peter Grego)
- 1979-1980
- A Flea in Her Ear (director: Peter Grego)
- The Taming of the Shrew (director: Peter Grego)
- One-Act Festival (director: Peter Grego)
- 1978-1979
- Doré Theatre Opening Gala, May 1979: Camelot (director: Peter Grego)
[Pre-Doré: The Rimers of Eldritch, Fall 1978 (director: Peter Grego)]
