By Alice Childress
LEHIGH UNIVERSITY · College of Arts and Sciences
DEPARTMENT OF
THEATRE
DEPARTMENT OF
THEATRE
2024/2025
Season
Stories of Courage & Connection
Trouble in Mind
Oct 2-14, 2024
Wolf Play
By Hansol Jung
Nov 15-22, 2024
Proof
By David Auburn
A Virginia M. & Bernard R. Hale '30 Production
Feb - Mar 1,2025
The Bookstore
By Adam Szymkowicz
Apr 11-19,2025
New Faculty
Jessie Dean
(she/her)
2024-25 Horger Artist-in-Residence for the Performing Arts
Jessie Dean, the Horger Artist in Residence for Visual and Performing Arts, brings over 20 years of professional theatre experience to Lehigh. Originally from Atlanta, Jessie spent nine years in NYC as an actor, director, producer, and writer, and served as the associate artistic director of Moliere in the Park. She joins us from Muhlenberg College, where she was a Visiting Assistant Professor. Jessie holds an MFA in Classical Acting from Illinois State University and a B.A. in Theatre from Oglethorpe University. This year, she will direct Wolf Play and teach performance courses in both the fall and spring semesters.
Upcoming Auditions
Proof
Audition Dates & Time
November 18 & 19, Time TBA
Location
Fowler Black Box Theater, Zoellner Arts Center
Callback
Callbacks will be by appointment only. Actors will only be called as needed.
About the Play
"On the eve of her twenty-fifth birthday, Catherine, a troubled young woman, has spent years caring for her brilliant but unstable father, a famous mathematician. Now, following his death, she must deal with her own volatile emotions; the arrival of her estranged sister, Claire; and the attentions of Hal, a former student of her father’s who hopes to find valuable work in the 103 notebooks that her father left behind. Over the long weekend that follows, a burgeoning romance and the discovery of a mysterious notebook draw Catherine into the most difficult problem of all: How much of her father’s madness—or genius—will she inherit?"
