Directed by Dennis Oliveira
Columbia University School of the Arts presents Measure for Measure, a directing thesis production by current student Dennis Oliveira.
Inspired by the modern-day nightclubs of Berlin and Brooklyn, Measure for Measure asks us to confront our own definition of morality and what values we choose to uphold, especially when everything we stand for is threatened to be taken away by an authoritarian leader.
Showtimes
Thursday, October 2, 8 PM
Friday, October 3, 8 PM
Saturday, October 4, 2 PM
Saturday, October 4, 8 PM
Sunday, October 5, 2 PM
Run Time
2 hours 30 minutes, which includes a 15-minute intermission
Content Warning
This show contains depictions of sexual assault and harassment, sexual themes/imagery, violence towards women, and self-harm. The lighting design of the show will also feature strobing effects and lights shining directly into the audience.
Featuring
THE DUKE - James Kay
ANGELO - Ethan Williams
ISABELLA - Diana Maldonado
CLAUDIO - J.T. Thorne
LUCIO - Seth Retzlaff
ESCALUS - Natasha Conti
PROVOST - Louis Bose
POMPEY - Cameron Schmitt
MARIANA - Isabel Sheehan
BARNARDINE - Desmond Jackson
FIRST GENTLEMAN, ANGELO’S MAN, u/s CLAUDIO & PROVOST - Miles Segura
MISTRESS OVERDONE (BAWD), FRANCISCA, u/s ESCALUS - Shaena Kate
FRIAR PETER, ABHORSON, FROTH, u/s ANGELO - Joshua Ryan Vetter
JUSTICE, SECOND GENTLEMAN, JULIET, u/s ISABELLA - Heather Alzapiedi
ELBOW, u/s FRIAR PETER, JULIET - Alice McCracken Knight
Production Team & Crew
Director - Dennis Oliveira (current student)
Producers - Anna Rui Dou (current student), Alana Roberts (current student)
Scenic Design - Noah Hull
Costume Design - Bex Jones
Sound Design - Andrew Yoder
Lighting Design - Yiyuan Li
Media and Projections Design - Chazz Padilla
Intimacy and Fight Director - Willow Funkhouser
Dramaturg and Choreographer- Zihe Tian (current student)
Assistant Director - Trent Greenwell
Production Stage Manager - Emily Nacrissa Griffith (current student)
Stage Manager - Hang Yin (current student), James Davis (current student)
Company Manager - Victoria Provost (current student)
About the Director
Dennis Oliveira is a Brazilian-American director of Theatre and Opera with a penchant for classical stories and their lasting truths.
His work has been praised as "intelligent,” “carefully thought-through," and "elegantly simple" by The Wagner Journal. He is earning his MFA in Directing at Columbia University and is an alumnus of Montclair State University where he earned his BFA in Acting, as well as Florida State University’s Graduate Opera Directing program, the Institute for American Musical Theatre, and the Stella Adler Studio.
Other directing credits include Oresteia (Columbia University), Venus in Fur (LIU Brooklyn) Die Walküre (New Jersey Opera Theatre), Drought (New York Theatre Festival), The Magic Flute (Florida State Opera), and The Wild Party (Old Library Theatre).