Many thanks to Shannon Leigh Wittenberger, Juli Del Prete, and Robbie Iraburo-Cochran for their hard work in compiling this list.
2023 – 2024
Student Directed One Act Plays:
Cindy and Julie (directed by Anastasija Rahmanova)
The Scary Question (directed by Marissa St.Clair)
After the Ball Drop (directed by Max Dunlap)
Fight Dreams (directed by Grace DeMilio)
Voilà (directed by Stephanie Aquino)
Dream, Dream, Dream (directed by Taylor Gates)
There Shall Be No Bottom (directed by Zoë Van Krey)
The Sure Thing (directed by Leandro Ocampo)
Miss Kentucky (directed by Julia Myrant)
Lost Girl
Chicago Shakespeare Slam (Finalist & Runner-Up)
Becoming Juliet (New Faces)
Middletown
Chicago (Group Interpretation)
Guys and Dolls
2022 – 2023
Student Directed One Act Plays:
Waiting (directed by Josh Jaffe)
Blind Date (directed by Andy Lacroix)
Ferris Wheel (directed by Gianna Horcher)
Surprise (directed by Madeline Demuth)
By the Way (directed by Abbey McFarland)
Limbo (directed by Will Gonzalez)
Metamorphoses
Chicago Shakespeare Slam (finalist)
Spy School (New Faces)
The Miracle Worker
The Old Man and the Old Moon (Group Interpretation)
In the Heights
The Lion in Winter (Mundelein Summer Theatre)
2021 – 2022
Student Directed One Act Plays:
How to Ruin Your Life in 15 Minutes (directed by Chris Nacion)
The Typist (directed by Eli Walter)
Godfrey (directed by Lance Evans)
Life’s Hidden Gifts (written and directed by Christopher Moyer)
Cain Town (directed by Saedy Kugler)
Earlybird (written and directed by Meghan Matthys)
In-Decision (written and directed by Grace Sciortino)
Post-Its (directed by Tori Collins)
Loons (directed by Katie Myrant)
A Blooming of Ivy (directed by Kessler Young)
Clyde’s Conscience (directed by Addison Salski)
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
A Wicked Christmas Carol (New Faces)
Chicago Shakespeare Slam (virtual performance)
The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940
Big Fish (Group Interpretation)
The Addams Family
2020 – 2021
Much Ado About Nothing (performed outdoors on the MHS football field)
Chicago Shakespeare Slam (virtual performance)
New Faces/Student Directed One Acts (virtual performance):
Hey Good Lookin’ (Directed by Matthew Callas)
Something in Common (Directed by Rosy Castro)
Objectum Sexuality (Directed by Zoe Trahan)
The Lucky Girl (Written and Directed by Mary McMurray)
A Funeral Home in Brooklyn (Directed by Amari Liebe)
Pandemic Therapy (Directed by Joslyn Gange)
Best Lei’d Plans (Directed by Alexis Lee)
The Door (Directed by Megan Saunders)
Mom’s Kids (Directed by Marley Wilkins)
The Phoenix (Directed by Mira Guiritan)
Church of Satan (Directed by Dean Hahn)
Collateral Damage (Directed by Bella Buono)
Love/Sick (virtual performance)
The Further Adventures of Nick Danger – Third Eye (Group Interpretation, virtual competition, Sectional Second Place/State Qualifier)
Working (virtual and live performances)
2019 – 2020
Student Directed One Act Plays:
The First Fireworks (Directed by Bella Marotti
Test Fate (Written and Directed by Colin Nacion)
Within the Shadows (Directed by Colby Willis)
Drugs are Bad (Directed by Steven Weiss)
Light (Directed by Katie Staroszczyk)
Spaghetti Overture (Directed by Elias Photopoulos)
Julia (Directed by Marta Sikora)
Beauty (Directed by Miriam Mitry)
Heads (Directed by Ellie Mellen)
On the Porch One Crisp Fine Morning (Directed by Becca Panos)
The End of the World with Prom to Follow (New Faces production)
The Elephant Man (Illinois High School Theatre Festival)
Chicago Shakespeare Slam (Finalist & Runner-Up)
Love Letters (Benefit Performance)
The Curious Savage
Chicago (Group Interpretation, competition cancelled due to COVID 19)
Guys and Dolls (cancelled due to COVID 19)
2018-2019
Student Directed One Act Plays:
A Second of Pleasure (directed by Rachel Larson)
Awkward Silence (directed by Abby Smith)
Driver’s Test (directed by Kimberly Barr)
Find Me a Primitive Man (directed by Jake Cumberland)
Please Have a Set and Someone Will Be With You Shortly (directed by Natalie Williams)
Say Nothing (directed by Sydney Litka)
The A Word (directed by Josie Hutson)
Diamondbacks and Diamonds in the Sky (New Faces production)
Chicago Shakespeare Slam (Finalist & Runner-Up)
The Diviners
John Lennon & Me
I Kill Giants (Group Interpretation)
Sister Act
2017-2018
Student Directed One Act Plays:
After the Ball Drops (directed by Ginny Zundel)
Frozen Fish Sticks (directed by Kayla Raye)
In the Meantime (directed by Brianna Moderhack)
Stay (directed by Robbie Iraburo-Cochran)
Sorry (directed by Maddie Martorana)
The Wedding Story (directed by Henry Dumblauskas)
The West Wing (directed by Dan Haller)
To Date or Not to Date (directed by Joshua Saunders)
Walls (directed by Mackenzie Haith)
Cinderstein (New Faces production)
Chicago Shakespeare Slam (Slam Champions)
The Arabian Nights
Figments
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Group Interpretation - Sectional 2nd Place, State Qualifier)
Les Miserables
2016-2017
Student Directed One-Act Plays:
Happy No-Lidays (directed by Payton Cousins)
A Midnight Clear (directed by Thomas Ferro)
The Road to Nineveh (directed by Alex Frumkin)
Tainted Love (directed by Sheridan Hurtig)
Cindy and Julie (directed by Annie McGrath)
The Unknown Part of the Ocean (directed by Jenna Panos)
The Uprising (directed by Emily Parduhn)
Double Date (directed by Brenden Paul)
Raincheck (directed by Hannah Weiss)
Blind Date (directed by David West)
Completely Hollywood - Abridged (New Faces production)
Battle of the Bard Shakespeare Slam (Finalist)
The Best Man
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Stranger Than Fiction (Group Interpretation - Sectional 2nd Place, State Qualifyer)
City of Angels
2015-2016
Student Directed One-Act Plays:
The Concorde Fallacy (directed by Angela Peterson)
The Beauty Inside (directed by Patricia Roques
Family Names (directed by Karsen Sample)
Bar Mitzvah Boy (directed by Marisa Nuzzo)
Cloudy (directed by Kaila Saunders)
Believe (directed by Josie David)
Hitting on Women 101 (directed by Zach Levy)
The Election (New Faces production)
Tartuffe
Picnic
Ready Player One (Group Interpretation)
Thoroughly Modern Millie
2014-2015
Student Directed One-Act Plays:
The Drunken Sisters (directed by Maya St. Clair)
Supressed Desires (directed by Natalie Lawrence)
The Blueberry Hil Accord (directed by Stephen Ferro)
The Scary Question (directed by Rache David)
The Chocolate Affair (directed by Emma Morton)
TRUST (World High School Premier, Illinois High School Theatre Festival)
The Odd Couple & The Odd Couple Female Version
10 Things I Hate About You (Group Interpretation)
Shrek the Musical
2013-2014
Student Directed One-Act Plays:
Post Its (directed by Renee Fox)
Relative Strangers (directed by Liz Grein)
Dissonance - (directed by Walter Kasmer)
Daniel on a Thursday (directed by Haggai Simon)
The A-Word (directed by Rylee Freeman)
You Can't Take it With You
Our Town
The Secret Garden
2012-2013
Student Directed One-Act Plays:
A Second of Pleasure (directed by Nicole Hernandez)
Nothing in the World Like It (directed by Shannon Doering)
Miracles (directed by Troy Peterson)
Tainted Love (directed by Nicole Schaen)
Mary Just Broke Up With This Guy (directed by Evan Saunders)
Romeo & Juliet
Radium Girls
The Drowsy Chaperone
2011-2012
Student Directed One-Act Plays
Heights (directed by Tim Trinka)
Three Tables (directed by Zac Traughber)
Early Morning (directed by Tyler Saunders)
Almost, Maine
David and Lisa (co-produced with Kirk Players)
The Music Man
Fifth of July (Mundelein Summer Theatre)
2010-2011
Student Directed One Act Plays
An Evening of Lanford Wilson
Talley's Folly (Illinois High School Theatre Festival, directed by Luke Cianciotto and Ben Fenton)
Thymus Vulgaris (directed by Lisa Capasso)
Home Free (directed by Arika Egan)
Sabrina Fair
And Then They Came For Me
Once On This Island
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Mundelein Summer Theatre)
2009-2010
Student Directed One Act Plays
An Evening of Israel Horovitz
It's Called the Sugar Plum (directed by Megan Henricks)
Faith (directed by Sam Hernandez)
Hopscotch (directed by Juli Del Prete)
The Crucible
Picasso at the Lapin Agile
Footloose
Prelude to a Kiss (Mundelein Summer Theatre)
2008-2009
Twelfth Night
Up the Down Staircase (co-produced with The Kirk Players)
Fiddler on the Roof
Beyond a Doubt (original script by Lee Delehoy, Mundelein Summer Theatre)
2007-2008
Student Directed One Act Plays
Dancing at Lughnasa (Illinois High School Theatre Festival)
Love Letters (Benefit Performance)
An Evening of John Patrick Shanley
Sailor's Song (directed by Michael Fehr)
Savage in Limbo (directed by Michael Gielczyk)
Where's My Money? (directed by Michael Swager)
The Pajama Game
Biloxi Blues (Mundelein Summer Theatre)
2006-2007
A Few Good Men
An Evening of Christopher Durang
Beyond Therapy (directed by Theo Meyer)
The Actor's Nightmare (directed by Matt Santeler)
Into The Woods
A Ten Minute Play Festival (Mundelein Summer Theatre)
2005-2006
Charley's Aunt
Crimes of the Heart
Chicago
Proof (Mundelein Summer Theatre)
Bang, Bang, You're Dead (Mundelein Summer Theatre)
2004-2005
The Laramie Project
Marvin's Room
Working
Dignity (written and directed by Hayley Lerner)
2003-2004
…And They Dance Real Slow in Jackson (Illinois High School Theatre Festival)
Little Shop of Horrors
Black Comedy and Fur Better or Worse (one-acts)
Alice in Wonderland
2002-2003
Anything Goes
Finis and The Empty Chair (one-acts)
Our Town
2001-2002
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Moon in the Middle
Scapino!
2000-2001
Guys and Dolls
High Tide (one-act) and To Gillian on her 37th Birthday
Arsenic and Old Lace
A Piece of My Heart (Illinois High School Theatre Festival)
Coffee Shop Memoirs (student written one-act)
1999-2000
Romeo and Juliet
Crazy for You
Love, Death, and the Prom
Watermelon Boats (Illinois High School Theatre Festival)
1998-1999
The Crucible
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
Unseen Stages:
Mrs. Sorken
Nina in the Morning
The Actor’s Nightmare
Loveliest Day of the Year
Something I’ll Tell You Tuesday
1997-1998
Once in a Lifetime
Once on This Island
All in the Timing:
Sure Thing
Phillip Glass Boys
Words, Words, Words
English Made Simple
Philadelphia
Variations on the Death of Trotsky
1996-1997
Our Town
The Music Man
7 x 10 x 16
1995-1996
The Dining Room
Out the Seven Story Window
Bye-Bye Birdie
1994-1995
Matchmaker
The Boyfriend
1993-1994
Blithe Spirit
The Trial of Goldilocks
You Can’t Take It With You
1992-1993
Spoon River Anthology
Charlotte’s Web
The Sound of Music
1991-1992
Up the Down Staircase (Illinois High School Theatre Festival)
Fiddler on the Roof
1990-1991
The Skin of Our Teeth
Cinderella
Babes in Arms
1989-1990
Comedy Tonight (Illinois High School Theatre Festival)
The Clown Prince of Wanderlust
Man of La Mancha
1988-1989
Passion of Dracula
Fairy Tales and Fables
Guys and Dolls
1987-1988
Brighton Beach Memoirs
Richard Harding Bush, or the Rococo Coco Bean
Bye Bye Birdie
1986-1987
Romeo and Juliet
Pippin
1985-1986
The Autograph Hound and The Interview (one-acts)
The Phantom Tollbooth
The Wiz
1984-1985
Feiffer’s People (Illinois High School Theatre Festival)
Oklahoma!
1983-1984
Dark of the Moon
Story Book Theatre
Anything Goes
1982-1983
Out of the Frying Pan
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Grease
1981-1982
Our Town
The Hobbit
1980-1981
Dames at Sea
Once Upon a Mattress
1979-1980
Dirty Work at the Crossroads
South Pacific
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
1978-1979
Bye Bye Birdie
The Crucible
Charley’s Aunt
1977-1978
Li’l Abner
Lovers and The Brick and The Rose (one-acts)
Black Comedy and The Heiress (one-acts)
1976-1977
Alice in Wonderland
Peter Pan
1975-1976
The American Dame
The Importance of Being Ernest
1974-1975
Ten Little Indians
The Lottery
The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds
1973-1974
The Man Who Came to Dinner
The Playroom
A Thurber Carnival
1972-1973
John Brown’s Body
Because Their Hearts Were Pure
1971-1972
Picnic
Harvey
1970-1971
The Night is My Enemy
Annie Get Your Gun
1969-1970
The Best of Broadway
Take Her, She’s Mine
Antigone
1968-1969
Exit the Body
Finian’s Rainbow
1967-1968
Arsenic and Old Lace
The Skin of our Teeth
1966-1967
Our Town
Plain and Fancy
1965-1966
Sabrina Fair
The Imaginary Invalid
1964-1965
Carousel
Stalag 17
The Desperate Hours
1963-1964
Oklahoma!
Heaven Can Wait
Dirty Work at the Crossroads
1962-1963
Road Show ’63 (student written)
You Can’t Take It With You
The Diary of Anne Frank