Developmental Theatre through five decades
The Grand Timeline, 1971–present
Fifty years of Developmental Theatre productions, personnel, and milestones — filterable by organization.
Pre-release — canonical version pending
The Grand Timeline gathers every notable Developmental Theatre production, personnel change, and institutional milestone from 1971 to the present. Filter by organization above to trace the arc of any one company — the URL updates so you can share the filtered view.
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1970s
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1971
Writes Title III Ed. Grant (ESEA), and then BOCES
Participants: Dick Knaub – writing grants Benedetti Lear C Wilcox as Kent. Wilcoxes move to Boulder to do CSF, then promised "CU touring company"
Presentation: Goal: Employ CSF Actors; not rep: schools! No employment for fall, but promised for spring. Work on concepts, Lola on grants, booking. Edgar Reynolds assigns Chuck the Children's Play. Chuck and Lola develop Magic Lantern.
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Summer 1971
Colorado Shakespeare Festival
Participants: Allen Nause, Chuck Wilcox, Paul Oertel, Rob Hirshboeck, Anne Sandoe, Judith Marx
Presentation: King Lear, Henry VIII, Love's Labour's Lost
Benedetti's Lear
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1972
CC Launch
Participants: Knaub Program Director; Reynolds directing Shsp show; Wilcox directing Children's
L Wilcox
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Spring 1972
Magic Lantern first tour
Participants: Magic Lantern: Wives: Judith Marx, Pat Boyette, Boatman: Alan Nause Father: Ron Woods Sons: Jim Donadio, Stephen Finestein Forest Spirit: Chuck Wilcox
Presentation: Battle of Sexes; Magic Lantern, Jr. High
Actors need relationship to CU: become TAs
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Summer 1972
Colorado Shakespeare Festival
Participants: Ron Woods, Paul Oertel
Presentation: Volpone, Winter's Tale, Antony & Cleopatra
First departure from all-Shakespeare
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Fall 1972
Second tour
Participants: Same folks; one note indicates Craig La Plount
Presentation: ML: 35,000 pictures of Lake/"boat": foundational understanding for Developmental Theatre MA. Ruler and Ruled American Chronicle 1492-1776
News Articles By Betti Slack, in Focus 12/3/72; By Robert Dinerstein, Denver Post, Feb 11, 1973
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Spring 1973
Colorado Caravan tour
Participants: Jim Donadio, Judith Marx, Craig La Plount, Chuck Wilcox, Patricia Boyette, Alan Nause
News Articles By Betti Slack, Focus, Camera; By Robert Dinerstein, Denver Post, Feb 11, 1973
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Summer 1973
Colorado Shakespeare Festival
Participants: Dan Yang 1st time directing 12th Night, Annie Springer as Viola, James Donadio
Presentation: Twelfth Night, Hamlet (Gordon Wikstrom), Pericles
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Summer 1973
Jackson Hole Opera House
Participants: Roger Holzberg, Chuck Wilcox, Barbara MacCameron, Ron Woods, Melissa Gray, Alan Kreitzenbeck, Terry Gunnison, Terry Adrian, Kent Hall, Susan Senkier
Presentation: 3FD, Davy Crockett, Shoot-out
Jackson Opera House Programs
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Fall 1973
Colorado Caravan
Participants: Ron Woods, Patricia Boyette, Alan Nause, Chuck Wilcox, Barbara MacCameron, Robert Kallus
Presentation: One Inch Fellow
11/10/73 Daily Camera School Page By Sarah Hoover, photos Bill Hobbs
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1974
CU Theatre — Knaub, Nadeau
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Spring 1974
Caravan
Participants: Roger Holzberg, Nader Farman, Kent Hall, Barbara MacCameron, Carolyn Kruse, Ron Woods
Presentation: Rogues and Villains
Article Vail Trail, 4/26/74
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Summer 1974
Colorado Shakespeare Festival
Participants: Frank Georgiana (Macbeth), Robert Barton (Macduff), Pat Boyette (Titania), Ron Woods, Marilyn Jones, Fredye Jo Shattinger, Alan Nause, Terry Dodd, J. Carter Poust, Ed Sampson, Sue Doyle, Claudia Casserly, Peter Giffen, Jackie Trump
Presentation: Timon of Athens, Macbeth, Midsummer Night's Dream
Timon of Athens was Ricky Weiser's directorial debut, the first female director in the CSF.
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Summer 1974
1st Tour: Crown and Clown
Participants: Chuck Wilcox, Mary Olson, Annie Springer, Jackie Pualani Johnson, Steve Stannard, Roger Holzberg, James Nance, David Wells, Ross and Ginny-Lynn Safford, Darwyn Carson
Presentation: Antigone, Servant of Two Masters, Man/Maze/Minotaur (Theseus) & OIF. Also noon "Fairy Tale Hour" – a box of fabrics and improv with kids
Town 'n Country Review 6/12/74; Denver Post 6/12/74; Colo. Daily 6/14/74; Daily Camera 6/17/74
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Summer 1974
The Pioneer Village Playhouse, Cody, Wyoming
Participants: Alan Kreizenbeck, Director; Anthony Taccone, Bill McLaughlin, Jan Brannen, Barbara MacCameron, Randy Blair, Anne Bouricius, Elizabeth Martinson, Fletcher Diamond, Tim Halligan
Presentation: The Lion of the West (Melodrama)
Program
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Summer 1974
Colorado Capers
Participants: C Wilcox, A Springer, Ginny Safford, Linda (Nenno?), Roger, Mary O, Jackie Pualani Johnson
Presentation: A burlesque of Antigone in the Western manner
Mimeograph program
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Fall 1974
Colorado Caravan fall tour
Participants: Sue Doyle, John Murphy, Barb MacCameron, Randy Blair, Mary Olson, Thom Beers (Reality Productions Hollywood)
Presentation: Two Swallows/Japanese Kyogen, Shsp: Othello, R&J
1974 date on original of Two Swallows
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Spring 1975
Colorado Caravan
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Summer 1975
Colorado Shakespeare Festival
Participants: James Donadio (Touchstone), Peter Giffin (Amiens), Kent Hall (Benvolio), Marilyn Jones (Celia, Helene), Barbara MacCameron (Lady Capulet, Queen), Ed Sampson, Tony Amendola, Rob Hirshboeck, Paula Preston, Carl Rahal (Orlando), David Wells, David Walker, Robert Kallus
Presentation: Cymbeline (Crouch), As You Like It (Wikstrom), Romeo & Juliet (Yang)
Canon complete with Cymbeline.
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Summer 1975
2nd Season: Crown and Clown
Participants: Linda Nenno, Jan Brannen, Mark Jackson, Mary Olson, Dan Nolan, Ginny-Lynn and Ross Stafford, Roger Holzberg, Mark Campbell, Gregor Paslawski
Presentation: Dr. Faustus, Dr. In Spite of Himself, Two Swallows, Lessons of Ushiwaka Maru
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Fall 1975
Colorado Caravan
Participants: Carl Rahal, Gigi Benson, John Murphy
Presentation: Imaginary Invalid
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Spring 1976
Colorado Caravan
Presentation: Innuit, Magic and Supernatural
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1976
Stage Door Theater invention at Estes Park
Participants: Directed by Frank Georgianna; David Wells, Margo Gruber
Presentation: Jacques Brel
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Summer 1976
Colorado Shakespeare Festival
Participants: C. Wilcox, Mary O, Roger Holzberg, Laurie O'Brien, Barbara MacCameron, Gigi Benson, Peter Giffin, Brian Fitzsimmons, Ed Sampson, Steve Smith, Shirley Grubb
Presentation: Comedy of Errors (Benedetti), Tempest (Potts), King John (Ricky Weiser)
Program; Camera 8/1/76
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Fall 1976
Colorado Caravan
Participants: Tom Williams (Road Manager), Laurie O'Brien, Annie McEnroe, Brian Fitzsimmons, Leslee Moskowitz
Presentation: Innuit, Magic and Supernatural
Daily RMN
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Spring 1977
Colorado Caravan
Participants: Steve Smith (Road Mgr); Marc Peck, Cherie Karo (Schwartz), David Johnston, Karin Farwell, Jackie Pualani Johnson
Presentation: Conquering the Sun (Elem), Don Quixote (Middle School), Fools and Buffoons, Town Show: Chekhov — The Bear/The Proposal
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Summer 1977
Colorado Shakespeare Festival
Participants: Shirley Carnahan, Peter Giffin, Brad Gordon, Aubrey Wilson, Greg Sullivan, William Johnson, Margot Gruber, Larry Lott, Jackie Maddux, Mary Olson, Cathy Schaeffer, Annie Springer, Carl Rahal, Ricky Weiser
Presentation: Merchant of Venice (R. Mitchell), Much Ado (E. Reynolds), RII (Crouch)
Program
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Summer 1977
Developmental Theatre: The Pretenders (scene list)
Presentation: Scenes Around a Theme montage. Scanned typescript in client Drive archive (pending hosting permission).
See the Pretenders 1977 archival scan on the Shakespeare Themes page.
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Fall 1977
Colorado Caravan — Institutions Tour
Participants: Shirley Grubb, Marci Auerbach, Bunny Richmond, Kevin, Brad Gordon, Steve Smith booker and Road Manager
Presentation: Chekhov Marriage Proposal and The Bear; Maui and the Sun Goddess
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Spring 1978
Overland Stage Company — 1st Tour to Wyoming
Participants: Cathy Shaeffer, Mary Olson, Roger Holzberg, Steve Smith, Barbara MacCameron
Presentation: Battle of the Sexes; Julie of the Wolves; The Golden Land
Saratoga Sun 4/20/78
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Summer 1978
Colorado Shakespeare Festival
Participants: C. Wilcox (Sir Toby Belch; Fightmaster), Jim Finnegan, Phil Sneed, Sharon Ammen, Allan Trautman, David Wells, Peter Giffin, Brad Gordon, Shirley Carnahan, Cathy Schaeffer (Viola)
Presentation: Twelfth Night, Othello, Henry IV Part 1. Crouch as Falstaff.
Program
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Summer 1978
Kalakaua Park, Hilo, Hawaii — Shakespeare in the Park
Participants: Jackie Pualani Johnson Debus, director & founder; Paul Mark Clark, Pres. of Hilo Community Players
Presentation: A Midsummer Night's Dream
Premier Shakespeare in the Park — Hilo Community Players
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Spring 1979
Touring Hawaii Island
Participants: Jackie Pualani Johnson Debus, director & actor; Scott Evans, JoAnne Brown, Linda Mather, Denise Evans, Gary McGowen
Presentation: Conquering the Sun: a Legend of Maui (a Colorado Caravan script)
Hilo Community Players' Hawaii Theatre Huaka'i
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Spring 1979
Overland Stage tour
Participants: G. Paslawsky, Gigi Benson, Steve Smith, Katherine Sullivan, John Schmidt
Presentation: Faire Chain of Love; Stone Who Told Us Stories; Magic and the Supernatural; Art of Melodrama
Pinedale Roundup 3/15/79
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Summer 1979
Colorado Shakespeare Festival
Participants: C. Wilcox (Bottom, Chief Justice, Combat Master), James Finnegan (Flute, Bardolph), Mary Olson, Chris Rock, Sam Sandoe, Phil Sneed, David Wells, Shirley Carnahan
Presentation: MSND (R. Mitchell); Lear (Glover); Henry IV, Part 2 (Tom Markus)
Program, multiple articles
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Fall 1979 and Spring 1980
Overland Stage Company
Participants: Mary Olson (Mother), Randy Blair (Darrow), Christopher Rock, John Loder, Stacey Carroll, John Murphy, David Wells
Presentation: The Trial of Mother Jones; Walsh Commission (John Murphy); Golden Land (Gigi Benson); Julia and the Wolves
Co. Daily 1/30/80
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1980s
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Summer 1980
Colorado Shakespeare Festival
Participants: Chris Boozer, Shirley Carnahan, James Finnegan, Chris Rock, Phil Sneed
Presentation: 23rd Season: LLL (Yang), Hamlet (Jack Clay), Henry V (Gavin Cameron-Webb)
Program
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1980
Cheyenne Little Theatre
Participants: Chuck Directing
Presentation: Midsummer Night's Dream
Program (Oct)
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1980
Touring production, Hawaii Island
Participants: Jackie Pualani Johnson Debus, director & actor; Kavin Higa, Jim Thompson, Denise Evans
Presentation: The Boy and the Mountain God, Caravan-Style production
Hilo Community Players' Theatre Huaka'i
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1980
Shakespeare in the Park, Hilo
Participants: Jackie Pualani Johnson Debus, director
Presentation: The Tempest
Hilo Community Players
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Spring 1981
Overland Stage Company
Participants: C. Wilcox, Shirley Grubb, Marilyn Hetzel
Presentation: Letters Home; Demeter Mourning (Elem); The Girl I Left Behind by C. Wilcox
Saratoga Sun 2/26/81; Casper Journal 2/18/81
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1981
Shakespeare in the Park, Hilo — Taming of the Shrew
Participants: Jackie Pualani Johnson Debus, role of Kate
Presentation: Taming of the Shrew
Hilo Community Players
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Spring 1982
Overland Stage Company, Casper
Participants: C. Wilcox, Mary Olson, Kathy Jo Books, Christopher Rock, Gordon Early, Peter Giffin
Presentation: Shujin: a Hero of Japan; Merry Wives of Windsor for Ren Fair, Casper
Casper Star Tribune 1/21/82, 1/27-28/82; Casper Journal; Daily Camera 1/27/82
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1983
UH Hilo — ONE INCH FELLOW
Participants: Jackie Pualani Johnson (jpj)
Presentation: One Inch Fellow
Touring theatre
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1983
Overland Stage Company
Participants: Phil Sneed
Presentation: Dear Walden (Thoreau)
Flyer 83/84
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1983
Chuck's brain tumor operation/stroke/rehab
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1985
Overland Stage Company
Participants: Shirley Carnahan
Presentation: 2nd Shepherd's Play, The Towneley Cycle, Toronto
Program
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1985-86
Storyteller
Participants: Chuck Wilcox
Presentation: Teaching St. John's Acad.; Performing: Arts Conf., Rky Mtn Games, St. Thomas "Marketplace 29 AD"
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1986
Storyteller/Playmaker
Participants: Cherie Karo Schwartz
Presentation: Tour and Very Important Women article
Intermountain Jewish News 1/24/86
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1986
Theatre of Enchanted Forest
Participants: Christopher Rock, Mary Olson, Ian Wilcox, Dee Pelletier
Presentation: Ivanna and the Rainbow Serpent; Shujinko: A Hero of Japan
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1987
Overland Stage Company
Participants: C. Wilcox
Presentation: Cyrano
Program, Wilcox Christmas Letter
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1987
Theatre of Enchanted Forest
Presentation: Tales of Trickery, Charlotte's Web, Six Impossible Things, Shujinko: Hero of Japan
Program
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1987
Colorado Shakespeare Festival (Season 30)
Participants: Chuck (Gonzalo, Porter), David Wells (Ariel, Lancelot Gobbo), Melinda Scott (Juno); Martin Cobin (Tubal)
Presentation: Tempest (Crouch), Macbeth (Benedetti), Merchant (Yang)
Program
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1988
Overland Stage Company & Definitive Productions — Dance of Ocean Going Away
Presentation: Dance of Ocean Going Away
Flyer 12/20/1988
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1989
Overland Stage Company
Participants: Craig Osterberg, Sam Sandoe, Joe Marshall, Craig "Rich" Howard, Stacie Keogh, C. Wilcox
Presentation: Casper Find; Ivanna and Rainbow Serpent sequel Magical Journey of Ivanna; Fools and Fooling
Program, letter
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1989
OSC at Denver U — Birnam Wood: The Witches' Macbeth
Participants: C. Wilcox (Artistic Director), Tom Freeland, Marta Barnard (Lady M)
Presentation: Birnam Wood – The Witches' Macbeth
Program; Denver Post 3/13/89; RMN 3/16/89
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1989
Theatre of Enchanted Forest
Participants: David Wells, M. Olson
Presentation: Trial of Mother Jones
Note in 1990 TEF Program
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1990s
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1990
Overland Stage Company
Presentation: The Foreigner
Letter 3/9/90
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1990
Theatre of Enchanted Forest
Participants: Artistic Dir: Christopher Rock; Producer: Sandra Zuk Cyrus; Director: David Wells, Wendy Chapin
Presentation: Ivanna and the Rainbow Serpent; Balder the Good (Wilcoxes); Elsewhere and Back (Wells)
Program
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1990
Colorado Shakespeare Festival
Participants: Jackie Pualani Johnson Debus, Asst. Director
Presentation: As You Like It
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1991
Overland Stage Company
Participants: C. Wilcox, Marta Barnard
Presentation: The Enchanted Rainbow (rename of Ivanna & Rainbow Serpent)
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1993
Colorado Shakespeare Festival
Participants: C. Wilcox (Shallow)
Presentation: Also Impersonation; Living Shakespeare Program (Judith Bock, director)
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1995
Colorado Shakespeare Festival
Participants: C. Wilcox, Ethelyn Friend, Janna Goodwin
Presentation: Living Shakespeare and Will Power (Boulder Arts Council, CU's Outreach Council, Arts & Humanities Assembly of Boulder/Neodata)
C.Daily 5/6/95; 12/2/95
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1996
Boulder Mall Tabor Pipe
Participants: C. Wilcox
Presentation: Boulder Mall Tabor Pipe
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1997
Overland Stage Company
Participants: C. Wilcox, Ian Wilcox, Kate Richardson, Maggie Ebert and musician Orfeo C. Wilcox
Presentation: Shsp Improve; Six Impossible Things, Hunting of the Snark; City of Boulder Mall impersonation
Casper Star–Tribune, 2/7/97
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1997
Colorado Shakespeare Festival
Participants: C. Wilcox
Presentation: Troilus and Cressida (Civil War version – Nestor); Will Power; The Sentencing of Marcus Brutus — CSF and Colorado Lawyers for the Arts
Program
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1998
Kalakaua Park, Hilo, Hawaii — Shakespeare in the Park
Participants: Jackie Pualani Johnson, director
Presentation: Macbeth (stage in front of East Hawaii Cultural Center)
Hilo Community Players
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1999
Colorado Shakespeare Festival
Participants: C. Wilcox
Presentation: Half-time grew to full-time over next 11 years
Teaching Reviews
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2000s
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2000
Colorado Shakespeare Festival
Participants: C. Wilcox, Ethelyn Friend, Brian Thomas, Dawn Beck, Michael Gunst; Chuck given Colorado University Medal Dec. Graduation
Presentation: Living Shakespeare; Will Power Festival; Shsp on Green
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2001
OSC & Toadstone Theatre
Participants: C. Rock and company
Presentation: The Turtle Wife (Olson)
Casper 2001 Tour mention in Muse of Fire Program, 11/15/03
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2002
Colorado Shakespeare Festival
Participants: C. Wilcox
Presentation: Living Shsp; Will Power; Camp Shsp; Shsp on Green
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2002
Kalakaua Park, Hilo, Hawaii
Participants: Jackie Pualani Johnson Debus, director
Presentation: ONE UDDAH MID'SUMMAH — Pidgin adaptation of A Midsummer Night's Dream
Shakespeare in the Park — Hilo Community Players
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2003
Muse of Fire
Participants: C. Wilcox, Bill Countryman, M. Olson
Presentation: Muse of Fire
Artcore, Helena; Program 11/15/03; Indep. Record, 8/22/03
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2003
Colorado Shakespeare Festival
Presentation: Living Shsp; Will Power; Camp Shsp; Shsp on Green
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2005
Colorado Shakespeare Festival
Participants: C. Wilcox, M. Barnard, Dawn R. Beck, Melinda Scott (Ed. Dir)
Presentation: Living Shsp; Will Power; Camp Shsp; Shsp on Green
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2006
Chuck's tumor: Radiation Treatment
Presentation: St. Mary's; Living Shsp; Will Power; Camp Shsp; Shsp on Green
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2007
Colorado Shakespeare Festival
Presentation: Living Shsp; Will Power; Camp Shsp; Shsp on Green
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2008
Colorado Shakespeare Festival
Presentation: Living Shsp; Will Power; Camp Shsp; Shsp on Green
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2009
Colorado Shakespeare Festival
Presentation: Living Shsp; Will Power; Camp Shsp; Shsp on Green
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2010s
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2010
Colorado Shakespeare Festival
Participants: C. Wilcox
Presentation: Living Shsp; Will Power; Camp Shsp; Shsp on Green (laid off of CSF Green); Lola laid off City
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2011
Colorado Shakespeare Festival
Participants: C. Wilcox
Presentation: CSF fans fund raise for Brass Plaque on Globe Theatre, London
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2011
Overland Stage Company — Fall Leaves Tour
Participants: C. Wilcox
Presentation: Fall Leaves Tour (New England) – King James, Shsp.
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2012-2018
Shakespeare Impersonation
Participants: C. Wilcox
Presentation: Shsp Impersonation CS Gardens
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2012
Kalakaua Park, Hilo, Hawaii — Shakespeare in the Park
Participants: Jackie Pualani Johnson, director
Presentation: Richard III
Hilo Community Players
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2014
UH Hilo — Conquering the Sun
Participants: Kimo Apaka, UH Hilo director (jpj)
Presentation: Conquering the Sun
Caravan script from 1970s
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2014
Kalakaua Park, Hilo, Hawaii — Kid Shakes
Participants: Jackie Pualani Johnson, director
Presentation: This is Hamlet, by Tim Brownell
1st KidShakes — Hilo Community Players
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2015
Shakespeare Impersonation Denver Botanic Gardens
Participants: C. Wilcox
Presentation: Shsp Impersonation Denver Botanic Gardens
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2015
Shakespeare Pacifica Summer Initiative, Hilo
Participants: Chuck & Lola Wilcox, Steve Smith, Jackie Pualani Johnson, Randal McEndree, Rob Hunt, Brian Furer, assorted workshop participants
Presentation: Shakespeare Pacifica Summer Initiative, sponsored by UH Hilo, Hilo Community Players
Workshops in stage combat, acting Shakespeare, playwriting; Performance in Measure for Measure
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2016
KidShakes Hilo — Romeo to Go
Participants: Leah Wilson, director
Presentation: Romeo to Go by Jonathan Rand
3rd KidShakes — Hilo Community Players
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2017
KidShakes Hilo — MmmmBeth
Participants: Mimi Tincher, director
Presentation: MmmmBeth, by Allison Williams
4th KidShakes — Hilo Community Players
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2018
KidShakes Hilo — Lions in Illyria
Participants: Alston Albarado, director; Bernard-Benjamin Villa, asst director
Presentation: Lions in Illyria, by Robert Kauzlaric, an adaptation of 12th Night
5th KidShakes — Hilo Community Players
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2018
KidShakes Hilo — I Hate Shakespeare
Participants: Alston Albarado, director
Presentation: I Hate Shakespeare
2nd KidShakes — Hilo Community Players
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