Twelve Angry Jurors is originally written by Reginald Rose and was directed by Professor Jared Saltzman on Friday February 25th, 2022 taken place in the Ender Hall Theatre Lab at the main Bergen Community College campus. It is a play that contemplates the huge responsibility of twelve ordinary people as they consider the guilt or innocence of a young man accused of murder.  The twelve jurors bring their own histories, prejudices, and biases to the jury room as they work through this life or death decision.  In the year of George Floyd and countless others, this play works through the issues at hand in a very human way. 

Here's the link of my post on photography page in Instagram where I took the rest of the shoots of the play:

https://www.instagram.com/p/CaauNkluGi2/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

Rumors is an original comedy farcical story written by Neil Simon back in September 22nd, 1998 and was directed by Dr. Thomas O'Neill on Saturday December 3rd, 2022 at the Anne Maria Ciccone Theatre. The play is focuses about four couples arriving at the townhouse of a deputy New York City mayor (Ken Gorman) and his wife (Christine Gorman), along with Lenny Ganz and Claire Ganz to attend a party celebrating their tenth wedding anniversary. However, the four couples soon discover that there are no servants, the hostess is missing, and the deputy mayor has shot himself in the head (but it's only showed as a flesh wound). Comic complications arise when, given everyone's upper-class status, they decide they need to do everything possible to conceal the evening’s events from the local police and the media. The pictures I took above was taken back on Saturday December 10th, 2022.

Here are the rest of the shots on my photography page in Instagram with the other full collages:

https://www.instagram.com/p/CmK2Y1SO6Hc/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

The Laramie Project is an original play written by Moisés Kaufman and was directed by Dr. Leigh Jonaitis on Friday October 27th, 2023. The main setting features around five years ago in October 1998, a twenty-one-year-old student at the University of Wyoming was kidnapped, severely beaten, and left tied to a fence in the middle of the prairie outside Laramie, Wyoming. His bloody, bruised, and battered body was not discovered until the next day, and he died several days later in an area hospital. His name was Matthew Shepard, and he was the victim of this assault because he was gay. Moisés Kaufman and fellow members of the Tectonic Theater Project made six trips to Laramie over the course of a year and a half, in the aftermath of the beating and during the trial of the two young men accused of killing Shepard. They conducted more than 200 interviews with the people of the town. The Laramie Project is a breathtaking collage that explores the depths to which humanity can sink and the heights of compassion of which we are capable. I came in on Friday November 10th, 2023 with a few of the members from the newspaper club called 'The Torch' and I got a chance to cover photographs as well as setting up an interview with the cast along with Dr. Jonaitis the director of the production.

Here's the link with the rest of the photo collages I covered in Instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/p/Cze0QAyOQx0/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

https://www.instagram.com/p/Czg5C42uePj/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

https://www.instagram.com/p/CzjbY9Uul_4/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

Man of La Mancha is a musical novel written by Dale Wasserman in 1965 with music by Mitch Leigh and lyrics by Joe Darion, it was adapted as a teleplay by I, Don Quixote in 1969. The play at Bergen Community College was directed by Jim Bumgardner on Friday December 1st, 2023 at the Anne Maria Ciccone Theatre. The play features a comic tragedy of mankind’s struggle to better both himself and the world in which he lives. A tale of the adventures of an eccentric idealist in a hostile, greedy and cynical world. As with all the best allegorical tales, the oppressive mood of the fight against eternal evil is heightened by the sometimes comic, sometimes dramatic attempts of the hero to right all the wrongs of the world. Although his efforts at times seem puny and pathetic, the audience is left in no doubt as to the purity of intent that he instils into his self-imposed crusade. The story is both very entertaining and very moving, and will warm the heart of everyone whose spirits were ever raised by the prospect of a victory by the underdog against all the odds. The score is a musical delight, and contains one of the most moving moments in musical theatre as Don Quixote relates his personal credo in “The Impossible Dream.” I came to the rehearsal on Wednesday evening of November 29th, 2023 with my friend Michael Pardo who's also apart of The Torch (newspaper) club. We met with the cast and crew of the production and spoke to Professor Jim Bumgardner and two musical directors afterwards.

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