Trailblazing 2025
June 19-21 2025
From June 19-21, the company will share a series of benefit readings and showings that are the culmination of our work together this summer. The readings/showings are presented as a benefit for the company, and while there is a suggested donation price of $20 for the whole series, your presence is more important than your money, so please join us if you would like to and contribute if you feel so moved.
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
Untitled Owl Play
by Sally Seitz '17
Directed by Amanda Whitely '19
Thursday, June 19 @ 7pm / Seeler Studio Theatre
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Emily, Elena, and Becca are three friends in their late twenties who meet every Friday night on a back porch in Austin, TX to drown beers and avoid growing up. Yet their weekly ritual is jeopardized by a lurking, particularly vocal Barn owl, who calls into question the stability of their chosen family. This play exists in that special time at night where reality brushes with myth, magic, fable, and faith.
Voices
by Gerard Watkins (France)
Translated & Directed by Gerard Watkins
Friday, June 20 @ 7pm / Seeler Studio Theatre
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Voices is a haunting and lyrical exploration of the phenomenon of hearing voices—an experience as ancient as it is misunderstood. In a stark meeting room, Véronique steps into a gathering of young voice-hearers, embarking on a journey through the many voices of her life. As she listens—and speaks—trauma and aspiration, confusion and clarity, begin to intertwine. Voices blends poetic language, lived experience, and a touch of the surreal to examine the fluid boundaries between perception and reality, affliction and insight. At the center of the group is a mysterious figure known only as The Voice, who challenges our assumptions and perceptions. As the meeting unfolds, the play becomes a tribute to the unheard and misunderstood—asking what these voices might reveal about our fractured world, and the deeper empathy we might find if we truly listen.
The Standard
by Emma Dobson '27
Directed by Elsa Marrian '25
Saturday, June 21 @ 11am / Seeler Studio Theatre
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It’s 1924, and under the steaming Southern sun, secrets simmer. A husband vanishes, and five women must decide what silence truly costs. Gritty, lyrical, and unflinching, The Standard unearths buried truths of love, rage, and survival in a world that expects women to endure.
The Journey of the Saint by César De María (Peru)
Translated by Rose E. Cano
Directed by Olga Sanchez Saltveit
Saturday, June 21 @ 7pm/ Seeler Studio Theatre
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A rollicking adventure filled with deception and mystery, told by a late 18th century Latin American traveling theatre troupe. Juan del Camino, a renowned Spanish actor is in crisis following the death of his wife. Tomaso Malaspina, the Italian master of theatrical special effects fleeing the Spanish Inquisition, arrives at Juan’s door as if by miracle, providing Juan a new purpose for living. Together they embark on an adventure to cross the Atlantic to the New World, traversing into the heart of the Southern Cone bearing the remains of St. Fortunata to Moquegua, a small village in the Viceroyalty of Peru. Their encounters along the way, filled with wonder, mischief, and danger, challenge everything they believe, as they struggle to stay true in an era of revolution.