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1/21/24 New Swan cast offers are rolling out as design meetings begin. Here we go! 1/14/24 A very full day of callbacks for New Swan’s 2024 season. 11/8/23 New Swan auditions open up for the 2024 season: Twelfth Night directed by Eli Simon and Measure for Measure directed by Beth. And, for the first time, auditions are open to actors from outside of the UCI community. Exciting times! 9/1/23 As You Like It! closes after a sold-out season! 7/29/23 Opening night of As You Like It! 7/23/23 A wonderful review of As You Like It from the lovely Eric Marchese: “As with so many of the classics reimagined by Lopes, this “As You Like It” has a lot more up its sleeve than simply inducing laughs. Its gender-bending characterizations will prompt you to think about the nature of identity and its impact upon that most stunning and unpredictable of identity-revealing emotions, love.” Click here to read the whole review. 7/15/23 After a successful tech, an exciting first preview for As You Like It! 6/29/23 Designer run complete for As You Like It. Heading towards tech! 6/3/23 Another season of New Swan begins! Couldn’t be more excited to be working with this stellar team
on As You Like It. 5/17/23 Troilus and Cressida opens at the Art of Acting Studio. So proud of the work of these terrific
students! 4/3/23 An Improbable Fiction at A Noise Within. Such a delight to work with all of the incredible ANW
Resident Artists! 3/27/23 Troilus and Cressida rehearsals begin! 3/18/23 The company for New Swan is complete! 2/27/23 Beth is hired to direct a reading of James DeVita’s An Improbable Fiction at A Noise Within. Delighted to work with all of the incredible ANW Resident Artists! 2/24/23 Auditions for Troilus and Cressida at the Art of Acting Studio. This cast is going to be tremendous! 1/08/23 Callbacks are done and offers will be rolling out soon. Thrilled to be putting the company together for Swan’s 2023 season. 12/15/22 First round of auditions for New Swan are complete! 10/28/22 New Swan’s 2023 season is announced with a whopping THREE shows! Artistic Director Eli Simon will be directing The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged), guest director Andrew Borba will be directing Julius Caesar, and Beth will be digging into the melancholy and beautiful As You Like It. 9/3/22 With the raucously fun Comedy of Errors, New Swan finishes its first full season back from COVID. Grateful for the magical summer! 9/2/22 New Swan’s Pericles has a beautiful and heartfelt closing. A truly special evening! 8/9/22 “Pericles is one of the most remarkable Shakespeare works theatergoers have never seen – and New Swan’s version makes it one of the most satisfying things you’ll ever see on any stage, anywhere.” To read the rest of Eric Marchese’s terrific review, click here! 8/4/22 Beth signs on to direct Troilus and Cressida at the Art of Acting Studio. Excited to tackle this challenging piece! 7/16/22 And just like that, New Swan Shakespeare Festival is dark no more! Pericles, Prince of Tyre opens
to joyful and loving response after two long, dark summers for New Swan. Thrilled to be back in this
beautiful and unique space! 6/4/22 Our Town closes and Pericles at New Swan Shakespeare Festival begins! 5/20/22 Our Town is getting great reviews. Check them out here! 5/13/22 After the emotional rollercoaster of producing theater in the time of COVID, Our Town opens to a
joyful and supportive audience. So proud of this beautiful show! 5/7/22 First preview for Our Town! 4/12/22 Rehearsals begin for Our Town at South Coast Repertory. Look for us in early May! 3/23/22 Our Town is cast! 3/14/22 Offers go out for New Swan. Excited to be building such a special company! 12/15/21 Casting begins for another season at New Swan Shakespeare Festival. Can’t wait to get back in our one-of-a-kind theater space! 11/18/21 House of Desires opens to vibrant and supportive audience. Ecstatic to be experiencing live theater once again! 11/17/21 New Swan Shakespeare Festival announces their 10th anniversary season with Comedy of Errors and Beth directing Pericles, Prince of Tyre. 11/16/21 Design meetings begin with the extraordinary design team for Our Town at South Coast Repertory. Look for the show in Spring of 2022! 10/11/21 First rehearsal for House of Desires. Everyone is masked but delighted to be in the same room! 9/11/21 Casting commences for House of Desires! 8/21/21 The Pericles Project premieres on Zoom and YouTube with an enthusiastic talkback following. This film/theater hybrid is introducing New Swan’s audiences to this rarely produced gem! 8/5/21 Beth is hired to direct House of Desires for Pomona College. Thrilled to be envisioning an in-person production! 8/4/21 South Coast Repertory announces their 2021/2022 season including Our Town. Beth is beyond excited to return to working on this beautiful and timely play. 5/12/21 Beth begins design meetings for The Pericles Project with New Swan Shakespeare Festival. The
project will be released during Swan’s Shakespeare Weekend in August. 3/9/21 UC Trial 2021: Et tu Brute plays to an audience of over 750 screens! The collaboration between
New Swan Shakespeare Center and the UC Law Schools was a giant success. Look for us next year with another Shakespeare character on trial! 2/1/21 Beth begins work on UC Trial 2021: Et tu Brute a mock trial charging Brutus from Julius Caesar with murder and treason. Beth will be directing scenes for the partnership between UCI Drama and the UCI law school. 12/5/20 She Kills Monsters: Virtual Realms live streams to a supportive 175 screens! This production takes place with members in 12 different locations, over 3 different time zones, coming together to create one live performance. So proud of this very challenging and very rewarding production. 11/30/20 Long tech days for this innovative, remote production of She Kills Monsters: Virtual Realms. See the fruits of our labor starting December 5th.
10/19/20 Remote rehearsals begin for She Kills Monsters: Virtual Realms. Grateful to be working on this
lovely play! 7/21/20 She Kills Monsters is cast and deep into design meetings! 5/19/20 Beth is hired to direct a production of She Kills Monsters: Virtual Realms as a part of UC Irvine’s
20/21 season. 5/1/20 Our Town is pushed back due to COVID-19. The virus continues to be devastating to our industry, but the hope is that we will return stronger! 3/16/20 Beth couldn’t be more excited to be a part of South Coast Repertory’s 20/21 season, directing Our Town in early 2021. To read about the entire fantastic season, check this article from Voice of OC. 3/12/20 A sad day. Due to COVID-19, New Swan cancels its 2020 season in the morning and then, in the evening, a bittersweet closing to Outside Mullingar. Very grateful for the four great audiences that saw this lovely show live and for the support of the Orange County communities on behalf of both New Swan and South Coast Rep. 3/5/20 New Swan 2020 season is cast! 2/10/20 Beth begins assisting Founding Artistic Director Martin Benson on Outside Mullingar at SCR. 1/12/20 New Swan Shakespeare Festival holds auditions for its 2020 season: Comedy of Errors and Julius Caesar. 11/16/19 After a packed run, Romeo and Juliet: Hard Way Home closes to an enthusiastic and loving 11/14/19 A great review for Romeo and Juliet: Hard Way Home 11/8/19 Romeo and Juliet: Hard Way Home has a thrilling opening at Cal Rep! 10/19/19 Beth takes a break from Hard Way Home to direct Kimberly Belflower's John Proctor is the Villain for South Coast Rep's NewSCRipts series. 9/23/19 Rehearsal begins for Romeo and Juliet: Hard Way Home at Cal Rep. 9/21/19 Beth directs Meghan Brown's What Happened While Hero Was Dead for the MadLAB series at Moving Arts. 8/19/19 Excited to begin workshop rehearsals for Romeo and Juliet: Hard Way Home! 7/11/19 An enthusiastic opening for The Two Gentlemen of Verona at New Swan Shakespeare Festival 6/27/19 Tech begins forThe Two Gentlemen of Verona. Check us out starting with previews on July 3rd! 6/1/19 Rehearsals begin for The Two Gentlemen of Verona at New Swan Shakespeare Festival. Excited for another season at the Swan! 5/28/19 The Velveteen Rabbit opens at SCR! Check out the June 3rd review in the LA Times. 5/16/19 Casting is finalized for Romeo and Juliet: Hard Way Home! 5/7/19 Rehearsals begin at South Coast Repertory for The Velveteen Rabbit. 4/2/19 Beth gets the green light for a dream project! This fall CSU Long Beach and Brandi Carlile are offering her the opportunity to workshop her Romeo and Juliet adaptation using Ms. Carlile's music. The title is Romeo and Juliet: Hard Way Home and it has been in the works for years. Thrilled to get the chance to realize it come October! 3/17/19 Casting is finalized for The Two Gentlemen of Verona at New Swan Shakespeare Festival. 3/12/19 Workshop rehearsals begin for The Velveteen Rabbit at South Coast Repertory. 1/26/19 In talks for an exciting new show at CSU Long Beach. More details to come! 11/5/18 Beth directs a reading of the new Ryan Welsh play Last of the Wild Buffalo at Road Theatre. 9/1/18 New Swan closes their season at 98% sold! 7/14/18 The Winter's Tale opens at New Swan Shakespeare Festival and runs through Labor Day! 6/7/18 Beth is absolutely delighted to be asked back to South Coast Rep to direct The Velveteen Rabbit in 6/2/18 Rehearsals for the 2018 season of New Swan begin! 4/27/18 End Days opens at CSU Long Beach and Beth dives into pre-production for The Winter's Tale at 3/15/18 Beth is brought on to aid with casting for two workshops with Oregon Shakespeare Festival's Play 3/12/18 Beth begins rehearsals for End Days at CSU Long Beach. 3/9/18 Julius Caesar opens to a packed crowd and great reviews. 2/4/18 Beth heads to Las Vegas to start rehearsals for Julius Caesar at UNLV. 2/3/18 Junie B. Jones is Not a Crook is open! 1/14/18 Callbacks for Winter's Tale at New Swan Shakespeare Festival. 1/9/18 A new play for the new year. First rehearsal of Junie B. with the lovely people at South Coast Rep! 12/18/17 First production meeting for Junie B. Jones is Not a Crook at South Coast Rep. This one is going to be a blast! 12/11/17 Auditions for End Days at CSU Long Beach! 12/8/17 Beth travels to Las Vegas to cast Julius Caesar at UNLV. 12/3/17 Auditions are underway for New Swan Shakespeare Festival 2018! 12/1/17 Trojan Barbie opens at UCLA, including a post-show talkback with the playwright, Christine Evans! 11/10/17 Beth signs on to direct an all-female Julius Caesar at UNLV in early 2018. 10/19/17 New Swan Shakespeare Festival is named Best Theater/Playhouse by OC Weekly! 10/11/17 StageSceneLA announces their Scenie Awards, honoring Beth with OUTSTANDING DIRECTION (MULTIPLE PRODUCTIONS) for Atlas Pit and Nicky. 10/6/17 Trojan Barbie is all cast and we're ready for our first rehearsal on the 9 th . 9/6/17 Design meetings begin for Trojan Barbie at UCLA. 9/1/17 Taming of the Shrew at New Swan closes with a bang! 8/15-8/18/17 Beth gets a head start on Junie B. Jones is Not a Crook during a four-day long workshop at 8/8/17 And production meetings are already underway for Trojan Barbie! 8/1/17 Taming gets a great review from OC Weekly 7/26/17 Beth is hired to direct Trojan Barbie at UCLA. Look for the show in early December. 7/22/17 Tira Palmquist's This Floating World is read as a part of Boston Court's New Play Festival. A wonderful festival filled with inspiring and thought-provoking work! 7/14/17 Shrew opens to a packed, raucous crowd. A great night! 7/7/17 First preview for Taming of the Shrew at New Swan Shakespeare Festival! 7/1/17 Nicky closes out a fantastic run with another sold out crowd. Meanwhile, Taming of the Shrew heads into tech. 6/30/17 Beth is hired to direct Junie B. Jones is Not a Crook for South Coast Repertory's TYA season! 6/19/17 Beth signs on to direct a reading of Tira Palmquist's new play This Floating World for Boston Court's New Play Festival. 6/3/17 First read-through for Taming of the Shrew at New Swan Shakespeare Festival and a packed crowd for the opening of Coeurage Theatre's Nicky. A full day! 5/1/17 Beth begins rehearsal for the world premiere of Nicky by Boni B. Alvarez with Coeurage Theatre Company! 4/28/17 Stockton Civic Theatre's Calendar Girls opens to an enthusiastic crowd! 4/22/17 Calendar Girls tech begins. Four days until we have an audience! 3/30/17 Full acting companies are assembled for Nicky and for Taming of the Shrew. So thrilled to be working with these extremely talented actors! 3/21/17 First rehearsal for Calendar Girls at Stockton Civic Theatre! 3/13/17 General auditions for Nicky with Coeurage Theatre Company. 2/24/17 Beth heads to Stockton to hold auditions for her next project, Calendar Girls. 2/20/17 Beth begins casting with Coeurage Theatre Company for Nicky, Boni B. Alvarez's World Premiere adaptation of Chekhov's Ivanov. Look for the show in June! 2/12/17 Final auditions are held for New Swan Shakespeare Festival's 2017 season. 2/8/17 Grand Concourse opens to a great crowd including a reviewer from DC Metro Theater Arts. 1/15/17 Beth heads to Philadelphia to start work on Grand Concourse at Theatre Horizon. 1/8/17 More auditions for New Swan Shakespeare Festival! 12/2/16 Beth travels north for a meet and greet with the wonderful Stockton Civic Theatre community. She'll be directing SCT's production of Calendar Girls this Spring. 11/14/16 Initial auditions begin for Beth's production of Taming of the Shrew at New Swan Shakespeare Festival. 11/3/16 Design meetings begin for Grand Concourse. 9/30/16 LA New Court Theatre's Atlas Pit or the Garbage Man's Son opens at the Working Stage Theater in Hollywood! 9/17/16 Moving Arts' MADlab First Look Reading for Overburden! 8/28/16 New Swan's season closes with a packed house for Hamlet. Look for The Tempest and The Taming of the Shrew in 2017! 8/24/16 Exciting first read-through for Atlas Pit! Tickets available now on Brown Paper Tickets. 7/26/16 MADlab rehearsals kick off for Tira Palmquist's Overburden at Moving Arts. 7/23/16 Beth begins casting for LA New Court Theatre's production of Atlas Pit or The Garbage Man's Son. 7/16/16 Hamlet opens to a sold out crowd at the New Swan Shakespeare Festival! 7/7/16 First preview for Hamlet. A great night! 6/6/16 Rehearsals begin for Hamlet at the New Swan Shakespeare Festival in Orange County. 5/19/16 Grand Concourse is cast! 5/11/16 Excited to collaborate this summer with the amazing Tira Palmquist on her new play, Overburden, with Moving Art's play development program MADlab. 4/18/16 Beth is thrilled to accept an offer from Theatre Horizon to direct the Philadelphia premiere of Heidi Schreck's Grand Concourse. 4/14/16 Beth is hired to direct the world premiere of Alex Burkart's fantastic new play, Atlas Pit or The Garbage Man's Son, for LA New Court Theatre. 4/2/16 Beth directs a reading of Migdalia Cruz's Fur for Hero Theatre's Festival Irene! 3/22/16 Beth and Loose Canon are back in the lab for a week long workshop of Romeo and Juliet. 3/8/16 Virginia Grise's translation of All's Well That Ends Well gets its first read for OSF's Play on! 2/15/16 A workshop is scheduled for Loose Canon Collective's next project: Romeo and Juliet. 2/1/16 Beth is asked to produce a reading of Virginia Grise's translation of All's Well That Ends Well for Oregon Shakespeare Festival's exciting Play On! Program. 1/31/16 General auditions begin for Hamlet at New Swan Shakespeare Festival. 1/23/16 Beth is thrilled to be directing a reading for Hero Theatre's Festival Irene. Keep an eye out for this spectacular festival in late March and early April. 12/8/15 Call it Clover performs to a packed house at the MOTH Theatre in Hollywood. 11/17/15 Preliminary casting begins for Hamlet at the New Swan Shakespeare Festival. 10/30/15 Beth starts work on Call it Clover with the incredible Coeurage Theatre Company! 10/14/15 Beth is asked to direct Call it Clover for the Coeurage Theatre's CoLAB series. 10/10/15 Beth is excited to return to the New Swan Shakespeare Festival to direct Hamlet as an Associate Artistic Director. 9/8/15 Beth returns home to Los Angeles! 9/6/15 The Winter's Tale is called a "pitch-perfect marvel" and San Antonio Shakespeare in the Park: Renaissance on the River closes its inaugural weekend with an estimated 27,000 people having attended! 9/3/15 The Winter's Tale opens to a packed crowd at San Antonio Shakespeare in the Park. 8/30/15 Much Ado About Nothing closes at New Swan Shakespeare Festival after a sold-out run. 8/2/15 Rehearsals begin for The Winter's Tale! 7/31/15 Beth and her husband, Randolph Thompson, travel to Texas to work on The Winter's Tale for San Antonio Shakespeare in the Park. 7/17/15 Much Ado opens to a wonderful crowd! 7/11/15 Sold out first preview to Much Ado About Nothing at New Swan Shakespeare Festival. The show opens on Friday, July 17th and runs through the end of August! 7/10/15 A fantastic closing night to end a very successful run of Jason & (Medea). 6/27/15 Jason & (Medea) receives a Hollywood Fringe encore performance for July 10th! 6/12/15 Jason & (Medea) opens at Theatre Asylum as a part of the Hollywood Fringe Festival. The show runs through the end of the month! 6/8/15 Much Ado About Nothing rehearsals begin in Orange County. So excited to be back at New Swan Shakespeare Festival! 5/6/15 Design meetings begin for The Winter's Tale at San Antonio Shakespeare in the Park. Looking forward to working on this beautiful show! 4/29/15 Rehearsals begin for Jason & (Medea) begin. Look for us in early June as a part of the Hollywood Fringe Festival! 4/18/15 The first workshop reading of The Merry Lives of Windsor High is a great success at UC Irvine! 4/7/15 Rehearsals begin for The Merry Lives of Windsor High at UC Irvine: a moment 18 months in the making! 4/5/15 Design meetings for Jason & (Medea) begin. 3/20/15 Loose Canon company meeting is held to talk next steps! 3/7/15 Auditions for The Merry Lives of Windsor High at UC Irvine. 3/5/15 With record audience numbers, Loose Canon Collective's The Hamlet Project closes a very successful run! 2/25/15 The design process begins for New Swan Shakespeare Festival's Much Ado About Nothing. 2/22/15 Beth is hired by the LA New Court Theatre to direct Jason & (Medea) for the Hollywood Fringe Festival. 2/19/15 The Hamlet Project Round 7 opens to a great crowd at the Legendary Park Plaza Hotel! 1/30/15 Auditions for the New Swan Shakespeare Festival are underway! 1/23/15 Beth travels to Texas to cast The Winter's Tale for San Antonio Shakespeare in the Park with the lovely people of the Magik Theatre! 1/19/15 The Hamlet Project is featured on Broadway World. Come check us out starting February 19th 1/6/15 And, just like that, Hamlet Project rehearsals are in full swing! 12/23/14 Beth is thrilled to announce she will be directing the workshop of a musical adaptation she's been collaborating on for the past year, The Merry Lives of Windsor High, at UC Irvine this spring. 12/22/14 Teaser trailer for the HAMLET project Round 7 is released! See the Star Wars parody here. 11/12/14 Beth is hired to direct again at San Antonio Shakespeare in the Park! Look for The Winter's Tale at the end of May in San Antonio. 10/13/14 Beth is returning to the New Swan Shakespeare Festival in 2015! 9/28/14 First read-through of the next round of the HAMLET project. Look for us in February at a brand new space! 9/21/14 Marjorie Prime opens at the Mark Taper. A wonderful evening! 9/10/14 First preview for Marjorie Prime. Excited to share this beautiful play. 8/12/14 Rehearsals begin for Marjorie Prime at CTG. 7/14/14 Summer of 2015 is already starting to shape up. Look for exciting news soon! 6/30/14 Beth is hired to assist Les Waters on the world premiere of Jordan Harrison's Marjorie Prime at Mark Taper Forum. 6/2/14 After a successful run, Beth heads home to Los Angeles. 5/29/14 Hamlet gets a great review! 5/29/14 Hamlet, presented by the Magik Theatre is getting some buzz! Check out articles from San Antonio Magazine, San Antonio Express-News, and the play featured on the morning show, Great Day San Antonio! 5/28/14 Hamlet opens to a crowd of 800 people at the San Antonio Botanical Gardens! Theater critic, Deborah Martin's First Impression is: "The Magik Theatre crew, led by director Beth Lopes, pulled together a completely captivating staging of 'Hamlet.'" 4/27/14 Rehearsals begin for Hamlet. Look for us May 28th at the San Antonio Botanical Garden! 4/26/14 Beth travels to San Antonio for five weeks to work with the wonderful people of the Magik Theatre. 4/11/14 Beth spends the weekend in San Antonio casting Hamlet with the Magik Theatre. 3/10/14 Beth is hired to direct Hamlet for San Antonio Shakespeare in the Park. 10/14/13 Smokefall opens at the Goodman Theatre to a wonderful crowd and a great review the next morning. 9/30/13 Theater worlds collide when the playwright and director of Smokefall, Noah Haidle and Anne Kauffman respectively, attend the final night of The Hamlet Project: Chicago Round 3! 9/29/13 Round 3 of The Hamlet Project: Chicago has a packed house for their first night! 9/9/13 Rehearsals begin for Round 3 of The Hamlet Project: Chicago, 9/3/13 Rehearsals begin for Smokefall. 9/1/13 Beth heads to Chicago for a month and a half to assist Anne Kauffman on Smokefall at the Goodman Theatre and direct Round 3 of The Hamlet Project: Chicago. 8/18/13 Or What You Will performs for hundreds of patrons on the Green Show stage of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival! 8/17/13 The Hamlet Project: New York is reviewed by the Post, the Times, and Time Out! 8/5/13 Rehearsals pick back up for Or What You Will preparing for our August 16 Oregon Shakespeare Festival. 8/1/13 A Midsummer Night's Dream opens to a sold out crowd at the New Swan Shakespeare Festival! 6/25/13 Rehearsals begin for A Midsummer Night's Dream, which opens August 1st at The New Swan Shakespeare Festival in Irvine. 5/6/13 Or What You Will rehearsals begin in Los Angeles! 5/1/13 Beth joins the Smokefall team at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago. 4/19/13 A Midsummer Night's Dream at The New Swan Shakespeare Festival is fully cast and heads into design meetings! 4/8/13 Reading of And Then They Fell at the Road Theatre. 4/5/13 Smokefall opens at South Coast Repertory! 3/27/13 Round One of The Hamlet Project: New York opens in Williamsburg! 3/24/13 Round Two of The Hamlet Project: Chicago opens at Beer on Clark! 3/5/13 Rehearsals for Smokefall begin! 2/20/13 Beth is asked to direct a reading of Tira Palmquist's new play, And Then They Fell, at The Road Theatre in North Hollywood on April 8th. 2/13/13 Or What You Will, Beth and Matt Roi Berger’s rock opera adaptation of Twelfth Night, is offered two Green Show slots at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Look for us in August! 1/24/13 Beth is hired to assist Anne Kauffman on the world premiere of Noah Haidle’s Smokefall at South Coast Repertory in March. 12/6/12 Beth is asked back to the New Swan Shakespeare Festival to direct A Midsummer Night's Dream in August of 2013. 11/1/12 The Hamlet Project: Round Six is back at St. Nick's Pub! We're expecting another successful round with exciting new prospects for the future. Keep your eyes open Spring of 2013! 10/7/12 Back from Thailand and immediately starting a special election-themed Hamlet Project. Look for it at St. Nick's Pub the first weekend in November. 8/26/12 Closing night of Comedy of Errors and Beth takes a break to get married and go to Thailand. See you in October! 8/9/12 The New Swan Theater Festival and Comedy of Errors opens to a sold out run! 7/29/12 The New Swan Theater and Festival are getting incredible buzz! Check it out: here and here! 7/2/12 Rehearsals get underway for The Comedy of Errors, the inaugural show of the New Swan Shakespeare Festival. 6/20/12 Beth makes her way back to Los Angeles to get prepared for Comedy of Errors! 6/17/12 As You Like It opens and gets fantastic reviews! 6/11/12 Beth directs a 40-minute version of David Largman Murray's Robots Vs. Fake Robots for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival's FAIR Expressions. 4/2/12 Rehearsals start for As You Like It 3/31/12 Beth heads up to Ashland, OR to assist at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival! 3/22/12 Beth workshops movement vocabulary for Or What You Will. 3/10/12 The Vagina Monologues opens at the Lyric Hyperion Theatre in Silverlake. 3/9/12 Voiced opens at the Lyric Hyperion Theatre in Silverlake. 3/4/12 Beth auditions at UC Irvine for Comedy of Errors. 3/1/12 Round Four, Tyler Parry's, The Hamlet Project opens at St. Nick's Pub! 2/5/12 The new ensemble piece being developed by Beth and the cast of The Vagina Monologues has a title! Voiced. Look for it at the Lyric Hyperion Theatre in early March. 2/4/12 Beth is asked to direct Comedy of Errors as the opening show of the new Swan Theater Festival at UC Irvine. 1/26/12 Beth's final round of directing The Hamlet Project begins and first rehearsals for The Vagina Monologues! 1/25/12 Beth starts development on Or What You Will, a 35 minute rock opera based on Twelfth Night for the OSF Green Show. The project is a collaboration with her long time friend, composer Matt Roi Berger. 1/23/12 Beth is asked to be a creative consultant on an untitled new work being developed in Los Angeles. More info to come! 1/7/12 Auditions for The Vagina Monologues and a brand new ensemble piece at the Lyric Hyperion Theatre in Silverlake. 1/6/12 Beth is informed that she will be directing a Green Show at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival as a part of her FAIR internship. 1/5/12 Bringing in the New Year with The Hamlet Project: Girls Gone Wild at St. Nick's Pub. 12/8/11 Beth is asked to direct The Vagina Monologues as part of an International Women's Month Festival at the Lyric Hyperion Theatre. 12/5/11 Round Three of The Hamlet Project, featuring our first female Hamlet, starts rehearsals. 12/3/11 In spite of Hamlet losing his voice completely, two actors performing roles they hadn't rehearsed in a month, and having two hours to prepare the second night of The Hamlet Project is still a huge success! 11/28/11 Round Two of the Hamlet Project, Occupy Elsinore, performs this Thursday and Friday at St. Nick's Pub! 11/8/11 The Hamlet Project is a success! Look for Round Two on December 1st and 2nd at 7:45pm, located at St. Nick's Pub! 10/31/11 The Hamlet Project opens this Friday! 10/15/11 A photo from Beth's production of The Crucible is featured as the advertisement for UC Irvine in American Theatre Magazine's October issue. 10/3/11 One month away from the premiere of The Hamlet Project. Look for it on November 3rd and 4th at St. Nick's Pub! 9/17 Beth is awarded an Assistantship at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival to work with Jessica Thebus on As You Like It. 9/12 Rehearsals begin for The Hamlet Project. 9/1 Beth travels to Northern California to work on a production of A Midsummer Night's Dream with the Davis Shakespeare Ensemble. 8/25 Initial read-through for The Hamlet Project. 8/12 LIVEworks featuring Wonder Woman vs Reality opens tonight at the Lyric Hyperion Theater! 7/31 Rehearsals begin for Wonder Woman vs Reality. 7/15 Preliminary work begins on The Hamlet Project: a new adaptation being developed by Beth and a colleague from UCI. 7/6, Beth is asked to direct Wonder Woman vs Reality by Jeffrey Addiss, a short play for Acorn Pictures' LIVEworks. Look for it in August! 6/29 through 7/4, Beth and her family travel to Ashland, OR to see eight plays at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Another amazing season! 6/23/11 through 6/26/11, Moving to Silverlake! 6/11/11 through 6/18/11, Director's Lab West in Pasadena! Beth spends an amazing week getting to know theater artists from all over the country. 6/4/11, Beth participates in UCI's 2011 Graduate Commencement Ceremony and officially receives her MFA. 5/27/11, Beth turns in her thesis and is on her way to graduation. 4/11/11, Beth is accepted into the 2011 Director's Lab West, hosted by the Pasadena Playhouse. 3/8/11, Two Gentlemen of Verona opens this weekend in UCI's Outdoor Amphitheater! Saturday, March 12th and Sunday, March 13th at 1pm and 3pm. 2/25/11, The Crucible team visits Jackie Robinson High School and helps the students with their production of the show. A successful and inspiring trip! 2/2/11, Beth and team of actors have been asked by UCI outreach to visit a group of students from Jackie Robinson High School and speak about producing The Crucible. 1/29/11, Beth auditions and casts her next project, an outdoor production of The Two Gentlemen of Verona. 1/22/11, The Crucible closes and Beth gets engaged, all in one night! 1/20/11, Theatre Guild night for The Crucible followed by a talk back after the show! 1/18/11, Karen Zhou reviews The Crucible for UCI's "New University." Read the review here: http://www.newuniversity.org/2011/01/entertainment/the-crucible-bewitches/ 1/15/11, Beth and dramaturges Lauren McCue and Patrice Amon lead a question and answer session about The Crucible with the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. 1/14/11, The Crucible opens in UCI's Claire Trevor Theatre. 12/13/10, The Director of Outreach Programs at UCI contacts Beth about groups of high school students coming to see The Crucible! 11/29/10, Beth debuts her final directing scene, The Dreamer Examines His Pillow in the style of Siti Company, and later that night begins rehearsal for The Crucible. 9/19/10, Casting and design meetings begin for Beth's thesis show, The Crucible. 7/11/10, Great Expectations, a New Musical opens at Utah Shakes. 7/7/10, Macbeth opens and Beth celebrates her 26th birthday! 5/16/10, Beth leaves Irvine to spend the summer assistant directing Macbeth with Joseph Hanreddy and Great Expectations, a New Musical with Jules Aaron at the Utah Shakespearean Festival. 4/17/10, Beth and dramaturg, Dan Keegan, give a lecture to the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute about Cymbeline. 4/9/10, Cymbeline opens in UCI's Studio Theatre. 3/4/10, Rehearsals finally begin for Beth's main stage production of Cymbeline. 2/24/10, Beth is given UCI's Claire Trevor Theatre to produce The Crucible as her thesis production in 2011. 2/6/10, Humble Boy opens in the Nixon Theatre at UCI. 1/8/10, Beth's winter workshop production, Humble Boy by Charlotte Jones, is cast and starts rehearsals immediately! 11/13/09, The Threepenny Opera opens in UCI's Claire Trevor Theatre. 10/5/09, Rehearsals for The Threepenny Opera begin. 9/21/09, Auditions for The Threepenny Opera and Cymbeline! 5/14/09, Lorca in a Green Dress opens in rep with House of Bernarda Alba in UCI's Little Theatre. 4/16/09, Beth is selected to be Keith Fowler's Assistant Director on a production of The Threepenny Opera in the fall. 4/12/09, Beth starts rehearsals for Lorca in a Green Dress! 2/20/09, The Bacchae Trilogy opens in the Claire Trevor Theatre at UCI. 2/18/09, Cymbeline is chosen as Beth's second year, main stage project 1/20/09, Beth starts rehearsals assisting Mihai Maniutiu on his Bacchae Trilogy at UCI. 1/12/09, Auditions for Beth's spring project, Lorca in a Green Dress by Nilo Cruz. 11/1/08, Beth's first UCI production, Pinter's One for the Road opens in Nixon Theatre. 9/6/08, Beth leaves New York to move to Irvine, California for Grad School. 6/19/08, New York Neo-Classical's, Pericles, Prince of Tyre, opens its run at Tisch School of the Arts. 4/7/08, Beth is one of two directors to be accepted into UC Irvine's MFA Directing Program! 2/1/08, Interview for Carnegie Mellon's directing program. 1/26/08, Completes U/RTA interviews with UCLA and UC Irvine. October, 2007, Applications are out for graduate directing programs. February 2007, Researching graduate directing programs! 11/2/2006, Fuddy Meers opens at the Gene Frankel Theatre in Soho Summer 2006, God's Country opens at the Manhattan Children's Theatre in Tribeca. Summer 2006, Beth helps to form the New York Neo-Classical Ensemble, a company devoted to producing Shakespeare. 5/16/06, Beth graduates from NYU and immediately starts work on Thirsty Turtle's production of God's Country by Steven Dietz. 4/24/04, Thirsty Turtle Production's first show, The Seagull, opens at the Sanford Meisner Theatre in Chelsea. February 2004, Beth helps to form the company Thirsty Turtle Productions. |