2009-10
season

• • A Doll House
• • I Am My Own Wife
• • Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
• • You Never Can Tell
• • Bus Stop
• • She Stoops to Conquer
• • Two Gentlemen of Verona
• • Cymbeline
• • Death of a Salesman
• • Dancing at Lughnasa
• • The Resistable Rise of Arturo Ui

The Resident Ensemble Players/Professional Theatre Training Program is a powerful and unique marriage of a conservatory training program and a resident professional acting company. Operating like two sides of a single coin, the PTTP and the REP are each distinctive aspects of one artistic mission that manifests itself in a theatre organization that is greater than the sum of its parts.

With the establishment of the REP, the University of Delaware joins the many universities that have resident professional theatre companies, including Yale, Harvard, Brown and the University of California, San Diego among many others.

The Resident Ensemble Players is composed of a core group of 10 professional actors, including two PTTP faculty members and one professional Actors Equity Association stage manager.

Beginning in the fourth semester of the MFA training in February 2010, the MFA actors join the Resident Ensemble Players and all productions from that point will be cast with a mix of MFA and professional actors, with performances in both the Roselle Center for the Arts and in Hartshorn Theatre.

One of the most exciting elements of this unique alliance of a resident professional acting company and a conservatory training program is that it allows us to offer frequent productions of the world's best plays to the University and the tri-state area - great theatre right in our own community. With the price of travel continuing to increase, you can find quality, extraordinarily affordable, and engaging entertainment just right down the road.

We'll see you at the theatre!