Presented by the Lewis Center for the Arts’ Program in Theater & Music Theater
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
by William Shakespeare
Run Time
90 minutes, with no intermission.
Content Advisory
The production contains loud noises, depicts drug use, and incorporates sexual/violence language and sexual references.
Program Note
A queer exploration of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream by the students in the spring course, “Topics in Ensemble Performing,” directed by Lecturer in Theater Chesney Snow.
Special Notes
Please silence all electronic devices including cellular phones and watches, and refrain from text messaging for the duration of the performance.
Accessibility
The Drapkin Studio is an accessible venue with an assistive listening system. Visit our Venues and Studios section for accessibility information about our various locations.
Cast
Oberon: Kristin Nagy ’27
Titania: Madeline Paxson GS
Puck: Sophie Raes ’28* (Cast A), Lucy Grunden ’27* (Cast B)
Hermia: Lucy Shea ’27* (Cast A), Didi Vekri ’27 (Cast B)
Lysander: Ren Dzyuba ’28 (Cast A), Matthew Cooperberg ’26* (Cast B)
Helena: John Venegas Juarez ’25* (Cast A), Jack Musser ’27 (Cast B)
Demetrius: Violet Demos ’27 (Cast A), Orion Lopez-Ramirez ’26* (Cast B)
Nick Bottom: Pixley Marquardt ’27* (Cast A), Teddy Feig ’25 (Cast B)
Peter Quince: Alanna Yeugelowitz ’28
Francis Flute: Rubi Larancuent ’27
Tom Snout: Lucy Grunden ’27* (Cast A), Sophie Raes ’28* (Cast B)
Robin Starveling: Leila Dahmouh ’27
Snug: Kaitlyn Donato ’27
Egeus: Teddy Feig ’25 (Cast A), John Venegas Juarez ’25* (Cast B)
Theseus: Destine Harrison Williams ’26*
Hippolyta: Emily Boyd ’28
1st Fairy: Tess Weinreich ’25
Fairies: Leila Dahmouh ’27, Didi Vekri ’27 (Cast A); Leila Dahmouh ’27, Pixley Marquardt ’27*, Lucy Shea ’27* (Cast B)
Musicians
Pianist / Composer: A.J. Khaw
Musical Compositions: Kate Havnevik
Production Team
Project Proposer: John Venegas Juarez ’25*
Director: Chesney Snow
Costume Consultant: Miriam Patterson
Co-Lighting Design: Le’Naya Wilkerson ’25*, Precious Opaola ’28*
Sound Design: Orion Lopez-Ramirez ’26*
Stage Manager: James-Allen Leyba ’28
Associate Director: Ava Kronman ’26*
Assistant Stage Managers: Olivia Kasule ’26*, Destine Harrison-Williams ’26*
Run Crew: Pippa LaMacchia ’26, Braeh Simon ’26
Fight and Intimacy Director: Jacquelyn Holloway
*denotes a student minoring in the Program in Theater & Music Theater
Faculty Advisor
Chesney Snow, Faculty Project Mentor
Land Acknowledgement
An estimated 10 million Native Americans lived in North America before the arrival of European colonizers. Many thousands lived in Lenapehoking, the vast homeland of the Lenni-Lenape, who were the first inhabitants of what is now called eastern Pennsylvania and parts of New York, New Jersey, Maryland, and Delaware.
Princeton stands on part of the ancient homeland and traditional territory of the Lenape people. In 1756, the College of New Jersey erected Nassau Hall with no recorded consultation with the Lenni-Lenape peoples.
Treaties and forced relocation dispersed Lenape-Delaware to Ohio, Kansas, and Oklahoma. We acknowledge the violence of settler colonialism and pay respect to Lenape peoples past, present, and future and their continuing presence in the homeland and throughout the Lenape diaspora.
For more information about ways you can engage with and support the Indigenous community on campus please visit the website of Native American and Indigenous studies (NAI), Natives at Princeton and Princeton Indigenous Advocacy Coalition.
Lewis Center for the Arts
Chair: Judith Hamera
Executive Director: Marion Friedman Young
Director of Program in Theater and Music Theater: Jane Cox
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The programs of the Peter B. Lewis Center for the Arts are made possible through the generous support of many alumni and other donors. View a list of LCA Supporters
