The Play That Goes Wrong

by: Henry Lewis, Henry Shields, Jonathan Sayer

From Mischief, Broadway masters of comedy, comes the smash hit farce. Welcome to opening night of the Cornley University Drama Society’s newest production, The Murder at Haversham Manor, where things are quickly going from bad to utterly disastrous. This 1920s whodunit has everything you never wanted in a show—an unconscious leading lady, a corpse that can’t play dead, and actors who trip over everything (including their lines). Nevertheless, the accident-prone thespians battle against all odds to make it through to their final curtain call, with hilarious consequences! Part Monty Python, part Sherlock Holmes, this Olivier Award–winning comedy is a global phenomenon that’s guaranteed to leave you aching with laughter!

Production Team:

Directors: Gus David Sanchez & Liam Day

Stage Manager & Lighting Designer: Brianna Miranda

Assistant Stage Manager: Brian Kraft

Intimacy Coordinator: Liam Day

Stunt Coordinator: Hunter Campbell

Set & Prop Designer & Fight Coordinator: Christopher Lininger

Costume Design: Alex Husson-Matter

Sound Designer: John Schwindigger

Producers: Ethan Trujillo & Luis Castro

Wilde Man (2025)

by: Scott Carter

“Suffering is one very long moment,” wrote Oscar Wilde while confined in an English prison. WILDE MAN, a new play by Scott Carter (DISCORD), chronicles how jail transformed Wilde, and how those who loved him most tried to help him restore his life and reputation upon his release.

Production Team:

Director: Gus David Sanchez

Stage Manager & Lighting Designer: Christopher Liniger

Music: Hugo de Billie V

Jesus Christ Superstar (2025)

Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber / Lyrics by Tim Rice

A global phenomenon that has wowed audiences for decades, Jesus Christ Superstar is a timeless work set against the backdrop of an extraordinary and universally-known series of events, but seen through the eyes of Judas Iscariot. The story, told entirely through song, explores the personal relationships and struggles between Jesus, Judas, Mary Magdalene, his disciples, his followers and the Roman Empire. The iconic 1970s rock score contains such well-known numbers as “Superstar,” “I Don’t Know How to Love Him” and “Gethsemane.”

Production Team:

Director: Lisa Hermanson

Stage Manager: Michael Wise

Music Director: Bryan Berard

Choreographer: Ryan McMullen

Set Designer: Melissa Munoz-Chavez

Costume Designer: Heather Striebel

Lighting Designer: Aaron Krohn

Sound Design: Zane Chaffee

Producer: Ethan Trujillo

Assistant Producer: Gus David Sanchez

The Gospel According to Thomas Jefferson, Charles Dickens, and Count Leo Tolstoy: Discord (2024)

by: Scott Carter

Thomas Jefferson, Charles Dickens, and Count Leo Tolstoy all walk into a room. The last thing they remember was the moment they died, and now they’re all stuck in a room together. With limited information about each other, the three famed GOSPELISTS argue who was right about their theories about Jesus of Nazareth, the New Testament, and more, all the while hurling insults and quips at each other. Scott Carter’s dry-comedy depicts Jefferson, Dickens, and Tolstoy not as philosophers–but merely as men needing to be heard.

Production Team:

Director: Gus David Sanchez

Stage Manager: Luis Castro

Set Designer: Melissa Munoz-Chavez

Costume Designer: Janet Beatty-Cold

Sound Design: Jeff Allen

Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: Shadow Cast (2024)

Thomas Jefferson, Charles Dickens, and Count Leo Tolstoy all walk into a room. The last thing they remember was the moment they died, and now they’re all stuck in a room together. With limited information about each other, the three famed GOSPELISTS argue who was right about their theories about Jesus of Nazareth, the New Testament, and more, all the while hurling insults and quips at each other. Scott Carter’s dry-comedy depicts Jefferson, Dickens, and Tolstoy not as philosophers–but merely as men needing to be heard.

Production Team:

Director: Hugo de Billie V

Stage Manager: Sage Drake

Props Designed by: Alonna Cannon & Sage Drake

Costume Designer: Bella Helm

Lighting Designer: Al Berry

Producer: Gus David Sanchez

Once (2024)

Music and Lyrics by Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova / Book by Enda Walsh

From the very first note, Once draws you in and never lets go. This emotionally captivating musical is the only show to have music that won an Academy Award, a Grammy Award, an Olivier Award and a Tony Award.

On the streets of Dublin, an Irish musician and a Czech immigrant are drawn together by their shared love of music. Over the course of one fateful week, an unexpected friendship and collaboration quickly evolves into a powerful but complicated love story, underscored by emotionally charged music.

Production Team:

Co-Directors: Gus David Sanchez & Darcy Harman

Music Director: Peyton Womble

Choreographer: Kacie Bauer

Stage Managers: Roxi Garcia (Head) & Mattie Ruminer (Assistant)

Producer: Luis Castro

Set Designer: Sage Drake

Lighting Designer: Brianna Miranda

Costume Designer: Hendrix Chaffee

Sound Designer: Scott Haley

Brews with the Bard: Romeo & Juliet Get Trashed (2023)

You’ve seen them as gangsters in Baz Lurmhan’s 1990’s film. You’ve seen them as gnomes. Now see them drunk! “Brews with the Bard: Romeo & Juliet Get Trashed” features a band of eleven actors attempting to present Shakespeare’s great love story while getting increasingly intoxicated.

Production Team:

Co-Directors: Gus David Sanchez & Darcy Harman

Stage Manager: Austin Reeve

Projections and Sound Design: Christopher Lininger

Producer: Gus David Sanchez

Green Day’s AMERICAN IDIOT (2023)

Music by Green Day / Lyrics by Billie Joe Armstrong & Michael Mayer

Based on the Green Day album of the same name, Johnny, Tunny, and Will seek to escape the media-saturated life of Suburbia. The boys strike out in various directions, with Johnny seeking solace in the city, Tunny enlisting in the Army, and Will staying home with his pregnant girlfriend. Despite seeking something better, the three will find how unkind post-9/11 American really is.

Production Team:

Co-Directors: Gus David Sanchez & Eva Cullen

Assistant Director: Jason Wyatt

Music Director: Alyssa Gose

Stage Managers: Roxi Garcia & Steven Coupler

Producers: Christopher Lininger & Mia Rivera

Set Designer: Christopher Lininger

Lighting Designer: Alia Belinte

Choreographers: Rose Rogge & Felicia Gonzalez

Costume Designer: Anjelica Martinez

Projection Designer: John Schwindigger

The Importance of Being Earnest (2022)

The play finds two bachelors, John ‘Jack’ Worthing and Algernon ‘Algy’ Moncrieff, who create alter egos named Ernest to escape their tiresome lives. They attempt to win the hearts of two women who, conveniently, claim to only love men called Ernest. The pair struggle to keep up with their own stories and become tangled in a tale of deception, disguise and misadventure. The playwright, Oscar Wilde, grew famous and infamous for his ridicule of Victorian sensibilities in this hilarious comedy of manners.

Production Team:

Director: Christopher Lininger

Stage Managers: Roxi Garcia (Head) & Mario Nunez (Assistant)

Assistant Director & Costume Designer: Anjelica Martinez

Producer: Gus David Sanchez

Sound Designer: John Schwindigger

Lighting Designer: Mattie Ruminer

Singin in the Rain (2022)

The "Greatest Movie Musical of All Time" is faithfully and lovingly adapted by Broadway legends, Betty Comden and Adolph Green, from their original award-winning screenplay in Singin' in the Rain. Each unforgettable scene, song and dance is accounted for, including the show-stopping title number, complete with an onstage rainstorm! Hilarious situations, snappy dialogue and a hit-parade score of Hollywood standards make Singin' in the Rain the perfect entertainment for any fan of the golden age of movie musicals.

Production Team:

Director: Christopher Lininger

Music Directors: Bryan Bernard & Della Bustamante

Stage Managers: Brianna Miranda (Head), Roxi Garcia (Assistant), Steven Cousler (Assistant), Kaylin Burguland (Assistant)

Producer and Video Designer: Gus David Sanchez

Costume Designer: Susie Ouderkirk

Wardrobe Managers: Sadie Carvlin & Anjelica Martinez

Set Designer: Christopher Lininger

The Complete History of America (abridged) (2021)

600 years of history in 6000 seconds … history will never be the same! From Washington to Watergate, yea verily from the Bering Straits to Baghdad, from New World to New World Order – THE COMPLETE HISTORY OF AMERICA (ABRIDGED) is a ninety-minute rollercoaster ride through the glorious quagmire that is American History, reminding us that it’s not the length of your history that matters — it’s what you’ve done with it!

Production Team:

Directors: Gus David Sanchez & Eva Cullen

Stage Managers: Steven Cousler (Lead) & Kaylin Berguland (Assistant)

Producer, Props and Video Designer: Christoper Lininger

Lighting Designer: Frankie Gomez

Sound Designer: Steven Cousler

Dracula (2021)

director / producer

adapted for radio by Orson Welles / edited by Topher Lininger

The last five years (2020)

An emotionally powerful and intimate musical about two New Yorkers in their twenties who fall in and out of love over the course of five years, the show's unconventional structure consists of Cathy, the woman, telling her story backwards while Jamie, the man, tells his story chronologically; the two characters only meet once, at their wedding in the middle of the show.

Production Team:

Director: Matthew Esqueda

Stage Manager: Kaylin Berguland

Music Director: Bryan Berard

Producers: Gus David Sanchez & Peyton Womble