For the second consecutive year, faculty and students from The University of SC Theatre Program will be a significant presence this summer in the long-running outdoor drama The Lost Colony, playing for its 72nd year on Roanoke Island in the Outer Banks of North Carolina. Department Chair Jim Hunter is designing the lighting for the production and Visiting Professor Robert Richmond is directing. In addition, 11 members from the Theatre SC family (current students and recent graduates) are performing or crewing in the show, several in principal roles.

Two Acting Graduates, Madeleine Hamer (left) as Eleanor Dare and Nathan Bennett, in the 2008 production of The Lost Colony. Photo by J. Aaron Trotman, courtesy of Roanoke Island Historical Association.

USC student and alumni participants are:

MFA Acting Graduate Ben Blazer (playing John Borden)

MFA Acting Candidate Brian Clowdus (in a dual role as the historian and Sir Walter Raleigh)

'08 Acting Graduate Madeleine Hamer (playing Eleanor Dare for the second year)

'09 Graduate Jeni Miller

'09 Graduate Esteban Nevarez

'09 Graduate Charlie Duncan

'08 Graduate Carin Bendas

Theatre Undergraduate Will Shuler

Theatre Undergraduate Sam Traquina

MFA Costuming Candidate April Brown (Costume Assistant)

Theatre Undergraduate Zach Kennedy (Assistant Stage Manager)

More information about the 2009 production is available at www.thelostcolony.org.

Congratulations to all of our department cast and crew!