Ozark Actors Theatre is an Equity theater company in Rolla, Missouri, founded in 1987.
History Ozark Actors Theatre was founded in 1987 by pianist Gail Andrews-Hintz and founding artistic director F. Reed Brown, with the help of actress Cindy Beger and her friend Kathy Pukas.Eddie O'Neill, "The little theater that could ... and still does 26 seasons later", The Rolla Daily News, July 25, 2013.
In 1993, the Cedar Street Playhouse became the home of Ozark Actors Theatre. Ozark Actors Theatre quickly gained a reputation for doing quality theatrical productions, and drew acclaim in Missouri and nationwide. In 2010 Jason Cannon became the artistic director,Judith Newmark, " Jason Cannon will head Ozark Actors Theatre", St. Louis Post-Dispatch, October 10, 2010. and Pamela Reckamp took the position in 2015.
Description The company is based in Rolla, Missouri, and is the only Equity theatre in the area. They are affiliated with the Missouri Arts Council.
Productions
1988 Godspell The Diviners Greater Tuna Magic to Do
1989 Bernstein: Music of the Maestro I Do! I Do! Voices The Boys Next Door The Foreigner
1990 Broadway: The Last 10 Years The Duck Variations Graceland Litko Savage Love Talley's Folly The House of Blue Leaves Lou Gehrig Did Not Die of Cancer Quilters A Christmas Carol The Actor's Nightmare
1991 A Christmas Carol The Fantasticks Barefoot in the Park The Elephant Man The Songs of Stephen Sondheim The Voice of the Prairie
1992 Nunsense The Golden Age of Broadway I Hate Hamlet Jazz at Castleman A Scent of Honeysuckle The Actor's Nightmare
1993 Love Letters Nunsense II: The Second Coming
1994 Dames at Sea The Gifts of the Magi Marvin's Room Sea Horse Lend Me a Tenor
1995 Abundance Smoke on the Mountain
1996 In White America On the Air Cotton Patch Gospel The Golden Age of Entertainment The Nerd
1997 A Command Performance Happy Birthday, You're Dead! Bye Bye Birdie Steel Magnolias
1998 Big River All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten Wedding Bell Blues
1999 Aunt Tilly's Funeral The Music Man Driving Miss Daisy Little Shop of Horrors
2000 Once Upon a Mattress Grace and Glorie To Kill a Mockingbird
2001 Annie Art Arsenic and Old Lace The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
2002 Oklahoma! You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown
2003 Oliver! Always... Patsy Cline
2004 Route 66: A Celebration of America's Mainstreet Fiddler on the Roof Wait Until Dark Nuncrackers
2005 The Sound of Music Forever Plaid The Odd Couple A Christmas Survival Guide
2006 Gypsy Musical Comedy Murders of 1940 Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
2007 Godspell Anything Goes Moon Over Buffalo Big: the musical White Christmas
2008 Pump Boys and Dinettes The Music Man Altar Boyz It's a Wonderful Life
2009 Daddy's Dyin': Who's Got the Will? Clue A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum Scrooge
2010 The Mousetrap Annie The Fantasticks Babes in Toyland
2011 Lend Me a Tenor The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee The Crucible White Christmas
2012 25th Anniversary Gala The Wizard of Oz Noises Off The Diviners Follies Little Women
2013 Peter Pan Fools Into the Woods Follies The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
2014 The Comedy of Errors Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat The Drowsy Chaperone Follies Cabaret 1: Hannah Bagnall & Brittany Proia Cabaret 2: Blane Pressler & Maglione and Ruiz Cabaret 3: Alyssa Flowers & Jake Mills A Fairy Tale Christmas Carol
2015 Meet Me in St. Louis The Importance of Being Earnest Lucky Stiff The Story of Velveteen Rabbit
External links
References