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Performance Opportunities

troupeWhitworth!
troupeWhitworth! is a touring ensemble that performs throughout the Spokane community for schools, churches, and other organizations. Their most recent production, Cootie Shots, presented a series of sketches confronting issues of bullying and prejudice.

On the Spot Players
During the fall semester each year, students may register for TA 276, Improvisational Acting. Students from that class comprise the On the Spot Players, a group that presents improvisational theatre.

CoolWhip
Membership in this improvisational troupe is by audition only. These players perform at various campus events (i.e. coffeehouses and Great Escape). They also tour schools and other venues throughout Spokane and the Northwest.

Festival of One-Acts
Every other fall semester, the advanced theatre students are required to take TA 361, Fundamentals of Directing. The final project in this class is a Festival of One-Act Plays called Drama in Short. The student-directors select plays, audition and cast the players in open audition calls, arrange the requisite technical support, and rehearse and present the plays. The festival runs for a week, with three to four plays presented each night.

Festival of Staged Readings
Each semester, four or five plays are selected, cast and prepared for reading in the HUB.