If you are a teacher or other working professional seeking advancement in your current environment and beyond without having to leave your current position, the summer residency Theater Production Program is for you!
This Master of Arts program is specifically designed around your professional work schedule with courses offered annually in July and a culminating project at your own venue, using your own resources. As a participant in the program, you will learn new skills to take back to the classroom, make life-long friends and network with other theater artists and educators from across the nation and the world, all while earning a degree that will benefit your career.
This collection features graduate projects from Master of Arts students in the Department of Theater Production Graduate Program at Central Washington University.
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
Diary of Anne Frank: Analysis and Design, Leeann Carol Wheaton Mueller
Direction of the Musical: Chicago (High School Edition), Sharon White
Direction of the Musical Seussical Jr., Amanda Will
Graduate Projects from 2021
Direction of the Play: Another One, Chris Hansen
Direction of the play 'ART', Kathryn Young
Graduate Projects from 2020
Direction of the Play: The Importance of Being Earnest, Sabrina Haesche
Direction and Technical Supervision of "By the Water", Brian McManimon
Graduate Projects from 2019
Direction of the Musical: The Drowsy Chaperone, Jed Broberg
Direction of The Imaginary Invalid by Molière Translated by Charles Heron Wall Adapted by Kimberly Dorman, Kimberly S. Dorman
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Direction of the Musical: A Year with Frog and Toad, Sioux L. Stoeckle
Graduate Student Projects from 2015
Direction of the Play: White Christmas, Shannon Ruiz
Direction of the Musical: Hairspray, Craig Wrotniak
Graduate Student Projects from 2014
Direction of the Play: Twelve Angry Jurors, Frances Hopkins-Maxwell
Direction of the Play: Buried Child, Kevin Wayne Loomer
Direction of the Musical: Seussical, Theresa Margaret Pohlhaus
Direction of the Musical: Mulan, Jr, Juleen Murray Shaw
The One Voice Project, Amanda Rose Hartley Villarreal
Graduate Student Projects from 2013
Direction of the Play: Phantom Tollbooth, Angela Chement
Direction of the Musical: Children of Eden, Mark B. Daniels
Direction of the Play: Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: A Play, Teresa Jean Hansen
Direction of the Play: Alice in Wonderland, Carla E. Parker
Graduate Student Projects from 2012
Direction of the Play: Dracula: The Vampire Play, Nicholas T. Hutchinson
Direction of the Musical: Guys and Dolls Jr, Julia R. Lopresti
Direction of the Musical: Les Misérables School Edition, Mary B. Nickles
Direction of the Musical: Fiddler on the Roof, Dennis J. Queenan
Direction of the Play: The Arabian Nights, Heather Robertson
Direction of the Play: Dead Man Walking, Michelle Willden
Direction of the Play: Dead Man Walking, Patrick Williams
Graduate Student Projects from 2011
Direction of the Play: The Outsiders, Janice Carroll
Direction of the Play: The House of Blue Leaves, Andrew Logan Fisher
Direction of the Play: The Awesome 80's Prom, Shannon Lynna Horn
Direction of the Musical: Beauty and the Beast Jr., Dara Evan Pickren-Davis
Direction of the Play: Doubt: A Parable, Michelle Trembley
Direction of the Play: For Black Boys Who Have Considered Homicide When the Streets Were Too Much, Cynthia Webb-Manly
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
Direction of the Process Drama: Play, Leah Bramley
Direction of the Play: The Revenge of the SPACE PANDAS or Binky Rudich and the Two-Speed Clock, Megan Ann Cozad
Direction of the Play: Epic Proportions, David Franklin Crutcher Jr.
Instruction and Direction of a Process Drama at Valley View Elementary School, Mindy Curtis
Direction of the Play: Sylvia, Zachary Adam Curtis
Direction of the Process Drama: Hats Off!, Mary Hamilton
Direction of the Play: Blithe Spirit, Richard Shultz
Theses/Dissertations from 2009
Direction of the Musical: You're A Good Man Charlie Brown, Megan Ann Ahern
Direction of the Play: Bocon, Christina Burbank
Direction of the Play/Musical: Seven Brides For Seven Brothers, Joshua Robert Johnson
Direction of the Play: Frankenstein, Ryan William Landmann
Direction of the Play: You Can't Take It With You, Lisa Dawn Nelson
Direction of the Musical: Working, Kimberly A. Peaker-Lozano
Direction of the Play: To Kill A Mockingbird, Karen Ann Trivelloni
Direction of the Musical: The Sound of Music, Richard A. Vitanovec
Theses/Dissertations from 2008
Direction of the Play/Musical: The Orphan Train, Tamara E. Burnett
Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man, Richard Hinz
Direction of the Musical: She Loves Me, Sheila McClure
Direction of the Musical: The Fantasticks, Robert Todd Meek
Direction of the Play/Musical: Suessical, Ellicia M. Mertens
Direction of the Play: Miss Saigon, Charles Gregory Pschirrer
Direction of the Play: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Emily Rollie
Direction of the Play: Alicia in Wonder Tierra, Carla Francesca Stanley
Direction of the Process Drama Piece: Making Sense of Our Town, Janice L. Susko
Theses/Dissertations from 2007
Direction of the Play: Antigone by Sophocles, Translation by Ian Johnston, Ronald Darrell Barnett
Direction of the Play: Cyrano, Sharon Deady
Direction of the Play: Bus Stop, Brett Eshelman
Direction of the Play: The Importance of Being Earnest, Dalton Robert Hamilton
Direction of the Play: Treehouses, Darryl Blaine Hovis
Direction of the Play: Bocon, Amber Mae Peoples
Direction of the Play: Turandot, Patricia Sands
Direction of Joseph and The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Debra C. Susi
Graduate Student Projects from 2006
Direction of the Play: Inuk And The Sun, Kari Glass
Direction of the Play: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Jo Strom Lane
Direction of the Play: A Raisin in the Sun, Jesse S. Montes
Direction of the Production Much Ado About Nothing, Julie A. Somers-Gulsvig
Theses/Dissertations from 2005
Direction of the Play: Rememberin' Stuff, Autumn Lee Browne
Direction of the Play: 1984, Jacob Dreiling
Direction of the Play: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Robert George Hunt
Direction of the Play: Noises Off!, Michelle Lynn Morea
Direction of the Play: Rumors, Taunya Lyn Page
Direction of the Play: The Imaginary Invalid, Dawn Gordon Schoepflin
Direction of the Play: Master Harold and the Boys, Linda Moon Thorn
Graduate Student Projects from 2004
Direction of the Play: Catacombs, Aimee Hostetler
Direction of the Play: And Then They Came For Me, Rachel Harry Krummel
Direction of the Play: What I Did Last Summer, Robert Arthur Ramseur
Direction of the Play: Maricela De La Luz Lights The World, Susan Bethany Stratton
Direction of the Play: The Rememberer, Vikki Voss-Shanahan
Direction of the Play: Cinderella: The World's Favorite Fairytale, Linda Morrell Walker
Theses/Dissertations from 2003
Direction of the Play/Musical: Once On This Island, Kathryn C. Baker
Direction of the Play: Into the Woods, Pamela Kay Cressey
Direction of the Play: Macbeth, Hendrea Ferguson
Direction of the Play: Harvey, Don Hendrixson
Direction of the Play: The Effects of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, Anita M. Hoffman
Direction of the Play: Steel Magnolias, Kimberly Anne Starr Mears
Direction and Production of Shakespeare's Comedy Much Ado About Nothing, Lisa Kraus Morford
Theses/Dissertations from 2002
Direction of the Production Fools by Neil Simon, Anna Jane Hudgens
Direction of the Musical Production "Little Shop of Horrors", William Alva Lytle
Direction of the Musical: Quilters, Elizabeth A. Madsen
Direction of the Play: You Can't Take It With You, Diana Lynn Maylett
Direction of the Play: Steel Magnolias, Jana Shea Petersdorf
Direction of the Production: David and Lisa, Meredith Rachael Sylling
Direction of the Play: The Good Doctor, Mark Wavra
Graduate Student Projects from 2001
Direction of the Play: All My Sons, James Murele Fewer
Theses/Dissertations from 2000
A Midsummer Night's Dream--A Creole Creation: Directing Shakespeare in a High School Setting, Laurel Renee Kash
Theses/Dissertations from 1998
Translation of Federico García Lorca's Amor de don Perlimplín con Belisa en su jardín, Jennifer L. Bennett