THE LORAS PLAYERS

The Loras Players
ESTABLISHED 1910

Ryan M. Decker, Director of Theatre 2018-
   assistant professor of theatre

2023-2024

• The One-Day Play 2023
• Ride the Cyclone (The Musical) by Jacob Richmond & Brooke Maxwell
• Romeo & Juliet by William Shakespeare
• 10 Ways to Survive the Zombie Apocalypse by Don Zolidis

2022-2023

• The 39 Steps adapted by Patrick Barlow, from the movie by Alfred Hitchcock and the novel by John Buchan
• Eurydice by Sarah Ruhl
• Tigers Be Still by Kim Rosenstock

2021-2022

• The One-Day Play 2021
• 44th Annual DBQ One-Act Festival (co-produced with the Dubuque Fine Art Players)
• Gremlins: An Unauthorized Audio Play adapted from the screenplay by Chris Columbus
• No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre

2020-2021

• The One-Day (Digital) Play 2020
• The War of the Worlds adapted by Howard E. Koch, from the novel by H.G. Wells
• Miracle on 34th Street adapted by the Lux Radio Theater
• A Midsummer Night' Dream by William Shakespeare

2019-2020

• The One-Day Play 2019
• Loras College: The Musical by Kyle & Stephanie Klapatauskas
• Silent Sky by Lauren Gunderson
• Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
• A Christmas Carol adapted by Joe Landry, from the novel by Charles Dickens
• She Kills Monsters by Qui Nguyen (Cancelled for COVID-19)

2018-2019

• The One-Day Play 2018
• Around the World in 80 Days adapted by Mark Brown, from the novel by Jules Verne
• It's a Wonderful Life adapted by Joe Landry from the film by Frank Capra
• No Mud, No Lotus adapted from the book by Thich Nhat Hahn
• Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen
• The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, music and lyrics by William Finn, book by Rachel Sheinkin, conceived by Rebecca Feldman

Doug Donald, Director of Theatre 2000-2018
   associate professor of communication arts

2017-2018

• 1440 Project
• The Illusion
• For A Blessed Christmas
• Darkness Visible

2016-2017

• Twisted River of Redemption
• One-Day Theatre Project
• A Flea in Her Ear
• Christmas Celebrations
• Public Dilemma

2015-2016

• 24-Hour Theatre Project
• Feiffer's People
• For a Blessed Christmas
• Jesus, Shakespeare & Amelia Earhart Run into a Wall
• Blacklight Shakespeare

2014-2015

• Twisted River of Deception
• Sounds of Christmas
• R.U.R. (guest director Lenore Howard)
• Way Off-Broadway on Loras

2013-2014

• 24-Hour Theatre Project
• Christmas Joy
• Lend Me a Tenor

2012-2013

• Twisted River of Temptation
• 24-Hour Theatre Project
• Adding Machine
• 'Tis the Season
• Murder by Insanity
• The Good Woman of Setzuan
• Blacklight Shakespeare

2011-2012

• 24-Hour Theatre Project
• Tales by Twain
• Magic of Christmas
• The Mousetrap
• Way Off-Broadway on Loras

2010-2011

• The Madwoman of Chaillot
• For a Joyous Christmas
• Roulette
• Working (guest director Erin Horst)
• Way Off-Broadway on Loras

2009-2010

• Urinetown
• Scratch Play
• Noises Off
• Way Off-Broadway on Loras

2008-2009 (100-Year Anniversary)

• Hamlet (co-produced with Fly-By-Night Productions)
• Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead (co-produced with Fly-By-Night Productions)
• The World Goes 'Round (alumni showcase)
• Amazing Adventures of the Marvelous Monkey King
• Way Off-Broadway on Loras

2006-2007

• A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
• All About Jack
• J.B.
• Way Off-Broadway on Loras

2005-2006

• Company
• The Miser
• The Jeweler's Shop
• Way Off-Broadway on Loras

2004-2005

• Early One Evening at the Rainbow Bar and Grille
• Captain Rounding and the Ring Raiders
• Rutherford B. Hayes
• Tom Foolery
• Way Off-Broadway on Loras

2003-2004

• The Dead
• Lysistrata
• Waiting for Godot
• Way Off-Broadway on Loras

2002-2003

• The Cotton Patch Gospel
• Nick Tickle: Fairy Tale Detective
• Spring into Easter
• Bullshot Cummond
• Way Off-Broadway on Loras

2001-2002

• Forever Plaid
• Conversations with an Absurdist
• Quilters

2000-2001

• Clue
• Fabulous Fable Factory
• I Never Saw Another Butterfly
• Way Off-Broadway on Loras