Upcoming Spring 2024 Production
STUPID F##KING BIRD by Aaron Posner
Directed by Professor Liisa Yonker
Shadowbox Theater
An aspiring young director rampages against the art created by his mother’s generation. A nubile young actress wrestles with an aging Hollywood star for the affections of a renowned novelist. And everyone discovers just how disappointing love, art, and growing up can be. In this irreverent, contemporary, and very funny remix of Chekhov’s The Seagull, Aaron Posner stages a timeless battle between young and old, past, and present, in search of the true meaning of it all. Original songs composed by James Sugg draw the famously subtextual inner thoughts of Chekhov’s characters explicitly to the surface. STUPID F##KING BIRD will tickle, tantalize, and incite you to consider how art, love, and revolution fuel your own pursuit of happiness.
Wednesday, April 17, 12:15pm (Special $1 Matinee) & 7:00pm
Thursday, April 18, 7:00pm
Friday, April 19, 7:00pm
Saturday, April 20, 2:00pm
TICKETS: QCC Box Office: 718-631-6311, LibraryBldg. Ground Floor Level
TICKET PRICES: General Admission: $10; Seniors, Students & Veterans: $5; QCC Students & Alumni, Faculty and Staff: $3
Content Transparency: This production includes moments mentioning/dealing with: Swearing, Blasphemy, Identity, Suicide, and Sexual Situations. Patrons will not be seated after the start of the play. No children under the age of six will be admitted.
CAST LIST:
DEV: Jaheim Kelly & Derek Rey
SORN: Rodrigo Carpio & Robert Webb
NINA: Hana Boachie
CON: Tavion Hamilton
EMMA: Jessi Larios & Christina Liberus
TRIGORIN: Omar Pichardo
MASH: Celeste Bermudez & Lesly Montano
Email Professor Yonker with any questions at LYonker@qcc.cuny.edu
Our Theaters
Humanities Theater: 797 seat, newly renovated, grand proscenium theater; in the Humanities Building
Shadowbox Theater: 99 seat, intimate studio theater with flexible seating; in the "Z" Building.
Technical Theatre Experiences
Each semester, we offer work calls for students to assist with painting, set, lights, sound, projections, run crew, & many more technical theatre opportunities. No experience required, we are all here to learn.
For information on Backstage Crew & Work; Stage Makeup & Costume Construction; Stage Managers & Ushers contact Professor Rothenberg JARothenberg@qcc.cuny.edu
Ushers see productions for FREE. Arrive 45 minutes before the play begins and check in with the house manager who will give you duties to assist the audience in finding their seats, receiving their programs, finding the restroom, etc. Ushers may also guard areas that the audience should not access, such as backstage space. Ushers must be dressed in our department dress code of white top, black bottoms. You are representing our department. A friendly and welcoming demeanor is important for the audience to feel invited into the world of the play.
Usher sign-up list is posted outside the Theatre Department office during Tech Week.
All "work calls" announced via the Student Listserv, to your QCC Student Email account.
QCC Theatre Stream
We wish we could share all our past work, but cannot due to copyright protections. Please enjoy the following available productions:
The @s written & directed by C. Julian Jimenez (47 min., Spring 2022).
A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen, adapted & directed by Arthur Adair (1 hr. 21 min., Spring 2019).
The Taming! A vaudevillian adaptation of The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare, adapted by C. Julian Jimenez & Jodi Van Der Horn-Gibson, directed by C. Julian Jimenez (1 hr. 59 min., Fall 2018).
Ubu Roi by Alfred Jarry, adapted & directed by Arthur Adair (1 hr. 29 min., Spring 2017).
anOTHER by J. Julian Christopher & the Ensemble, directed by J. Julian Christopher, a.k.a C. Julian Jimenez (1 hr. 28 min., Fall 2016).
Hamlet by William Shakespeare, adapted & directed by Georgia McGill (1 hr. 49 min., Fall 2016).
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Spring 2018
Fall 2017