Welcome To The Fullerton College Theatre Department

"The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without the work." - Emile Zola

Discovering and cultivating one's gifts can be a wonderful adventure in life, but without a commitment to hard work we never get to evidence the full dimensions of that adventure. Gary Krinke has frequently reminded us that we need to cultivate in the truly gifted a talent for working.

Whether you are a new or returning student anxious to get started on a new year, an alum interested in sharing your gifts with our current students, or an audience member seeking a great night out at the theatre, please know that the doors of our program are swinging wide for you.

How can you be involved with the award winning Theatre Department at Fullerton College? Let me count the 12 ways:

1. Enroll in our great classes

2. See one of the great shows in performance this semester

3. Audition for Cyrano De Bergerac and work with Chuck Ketter.

4. Audition for Fat Men in Tights and Raised in Captivity work with Gary Krinke. Fall 2006

5. Submit a new play to the playwrights festival (November 1) or audition to work on one of the new plays for the Playwrights Festival in January 2007 or just come to hear one of the new plays at its rehearsed reading night. For more information contact Andrea Morgan

6. Audition for a high school touring company, producing The Me Nobody Knows, directed by Gary Krinke, and performing at Fullerton College and five area high schools. . Fall 2006

7. Join Gary Krinke for Winter Break's New York Theatre Tour and Mela Hoyt Heydon on a Spring Break Theatre Tour (contact Mela for more information)

8. Audition for Hair, directed by Gary Krinke, performing in March 2007 in the Campus Theatre.

9. Audition for Hotel Paradiso, directed by Chuck Ketter, performing in April/May 2007 in the Bronwyn Dodson Theatre.

10. Audition for the Directors Festival and participate in our summer 2007 program.

11. Audition for Beauty and the Beast and work with Gary Krinke, John Vaughan, and Mark Henson on this SRO production during the summer of 2007.

12. Talk to Aaron Benson (properties, stagecraft, scene painting), Steve Pliska (lighting and stage management), or Mela Hoyt Heydon (costuming and makeup), or Jim Book (audio engineering, rigging,and stagecraft) about joining our technical theatre program at Fullerton College. We currently offer two technical theatre vocational certificates and are developing five more.

-The Theatre Arts Staff