Mesa Community College Theatre & Film Arts

Calling all theatre technicians, designers, managers, and industry professionals!

Mesa Community College’s Technical Theatre Certificate Program is gathering feedback through our Workforce & Curriculum Survey as part of our annual Advisory process. We are looking for insight on entry-level workforce expectations and industry competencies across technical theatre disciplines.

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Your feedback helps shape curriculum, training, and future program development for the next generation of theatre technicians.

Please take 10–15 minutes to complete the survey and feel free to share it with others in the industry! we are hoping to get 100 responses. This will help the program really grow and be able to respond to needs.

Picasso at the Lapin Agile Opens tonight!

Meet some of the cast!

Tickets available at https://www.mesacc.edu/arts/event/2026-05/picasso-lapin-agile

What would happen if Albert Einstein and Pablo Picasso met in a Parisian café in 1904, just before they changed the world forever?

Mesa Community College Theatre & Film Arts Presents: Picasso at the Lapin Agile

Meet the Director: Joshua Murphy

Joshua Murphy is a Phoenix-based director, actor, and educator serving as Performance Faculty at Mesa Community College. Select directing credits include the national tour of Calculus: The Musical! for the Know Theatre of Cincinnati and multiple tours for Southwest Shakespeare Company. As a performer, he has worked coast to coast, with roles including Louis in Angels in America (Know Theatre), Pericles in Pericles and the Creature in Frankenstein (Southwest Shakespeare), and Lenck in Bach at Leipzig (Cidermill Playhouse). He holds an M.F.A. from Western Illinois University

What would happen if Albert Einstein and Pablo Picasso met in a Parisian café in 1904, just before they changed the world forever? In his hilarious and insightful play, comedy legend Steve Martin imagines this improbable rendezvous. As these two titans of the 20th century debate art, science, and the nature of genius, they discover their groundbreaking ideas have more in common than they ever imagined. A witty, surreal, and surprisingly profound comedy that proves that sometimes, the smartest people in the room can also be the funniest.

(Some adult themes and content equivalent to a PG-13 Rating)
Tickets: www.mesacc.edu/arts


Pablo Picasso's 1905 oil painting, Au Lapin Agile ("At the Lapin Agile") helped to make this cabaret world-famous. The cabaret has been captured on canvas by other Montmartre artists, such as Roman Greco and Maurice Utrillo (A French painter).

This Week: Witch

Written by Jen Silverman
Directed by Amie Bjorklund

A MCC Black Box Show

A charming devil arrives in the quiet village of Edmonton with a simple offer: your soul for your deepest wish. The townspeople are quick to line up, but he finds an unexpected challenge in Elizabeth, an outcast whom everyone already believes to be a "witch." Unlike the others, her soul is not for sale. As this unlikely pair—the clever devil and the woman with nothing to lose—spar and flirt, the play explodes with dark humor and incisive wit. A modern fable for a cynical age, Witch asks a timeless question: what is the price of a soul, and what is its true value when hope is so hard to find? Prepare for a smart and spellbinding play that casts an intoxicating spell and debates how much our souls are worth when hope is hard to come by.

Performance Dates: Mar. 13 (Sold Out), Mar. 14, Mar. 26, Mar. 27 at 7:30 pm and Mar. 14 (Sold Out) & Mar. 28 at 2 pm

Limited Seating

Some adult themes and content equivalent to a PG-13 Rating

Announcing: Witch

Written by Jen Silverman
Directed by Amie Bjorklund

A MCC Black Box Show

A charming devil arrives in the quiet village of Edmonton with a simple offer: your soul for your deepest wish. The townspeople are quick to line up, but he finds an unexpected challenge in Elizabeth, an outcast whom everyone already believes to be a "witch." Unlike the others, her soul is not for sale. As this unlikely pair—the clever devil and the woman with nothing to lose—spar and flirt, the play explodes with dark humor and incisive wit. A modern fable for a cynical age, Witch asks a timeless question: what is the price of a soul, and what is its true value when hope is so hard to find? Prepare for a smart and spellbinding play that casts an intoxicating spell and debates how much our souls are worth when hope is hard to come by.

Performance Dates: Mar. 13, Mar. 14, Mar. 26, Mar. 27 at 7:30 pm and Mar. 14 & Mar. 28 at 2 pm

Behind the scenes - Rehearsals
The Explorer’s Club
written By: Nell Benjamin

London, 1879. The prestigious Explorers Club is in crisis: their acting president wants to admit a woman, and their bartender is terrible.
True, this female candidate is brilliant, beautiful, and has discovered a legendary Lost City, but the decision to let in a woman could shake the very foundation of the British Empire.
Performance Dates: Oct. 10, Oct. 11, Oct. 16, Oct. 17 at 7:30 pm & Oct. 11 and Oct. 18 at 2 pm
Tickets: mesacc.edu/arts/go/kpc

Meet the Cast
The Explorer’s Club
written By: Nell Benjamin

London, 1879. The prestigious Explorers Club is in crisis: their acting president wants to admit a woman, and their bartender is terrible.
True, this female candidate is brilliant, beautiful, and has discovered a legendary Lost City, but the decision to let in a woman could shake the very foundation of the British Empire.
Performance Dates: Oct. 10, Oct. 11, Oct. 16, Oct. 17 at 7:30 pm & Oct. 11 and Oct. 18 at 2 pm

Behind the scenes - Rehearsals
The Explorer’s Club
written By: Nell Benjamin

London, 1879. The prestigious Explorers Club is in crisis: their acting president wants to admit a woman, and their bartender is terrible.
True, this female candidate is brilliant, beautiful, and has discovered a legendary Lost City, but the decision to let in a woman could shake the very foundation of the British Empire.
Performance Dates: Oct. 10, Oct. 11, Oct. 16, Oct. 17 at 7:30 pm & Oct. 11 and Oct. 18 at 2 pm
Pictured: Selena, Autumn, Lissette, Jessica, Jaiden, Adalyn, Alexia Horton
Photo: Selena Constantini, Autumn Calkins, Jaiden Weid, and Lissette Rosas

Fall Theatre Auditions Coming soon!
Explorer's Club

Written by Nell Benjamin
Directed by Chelsea Anderson

Julius Caesar

Written by William Shakespeare
Directed by Kevin Dressler

When?

Auditions - Wednesday August 27 @ 6:00 PM

Callbacks - Thursday August 28 @ 6:00 PM

Where?

Mesa Community College
MCC Theatre - Lobby
1833 W Southern Ave, Mesa, AZ, 85202

How?

Auditions

Please come prepared with one 60 second monologue.

If you do not have a prepared monologue please come at
7:30pm on 8/28 and you will be seen

Callbacks

Be prepared to read from provided sides

If you were unable to attend the auditions on Wednesday please arrive before 6pm on Thursday and we will get you a time to be seen that day.

PLEASE NOTE - If you are cast you must sign up for the appropriate section of THP 201AA

Casting Priorities: In casting, the Theatre & Film Arts Department of MCC prioritizes matriculating students first and foremost. Each semester we do cast a limited number of community members, but community members should be advised that the department will prioritize casting of students first. If cast, community members would also need to enroll in

MCC's production class -- THP201AA.

If you have questions please contact us at [email protected]

Signup

Please complete the audition form https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf-nUK4Sz9BEQA5qvhm5evf9ARvaglw9bJYCT16di7BXs-faA/viewform?pli=1

and signup for a timeslot.
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0A4CAEAC2FA4FCC34-57788278-mcctheatre #/

Meet the Cast:
In Molière’s outrageous satire of medicine and its practitioners.

Cranky Mr. Argan imagines he has every ailment there is. His desire for treatment outweighs his judgment, as he tries to set his daughter up to marry an idiot doctor-in-training. He plans to marry his daughter to a dull young doctor so he will always have a physician handy. But Angelique swears she will enter a convent first, so we're off into the Molière world of humorous extravaganzas!

Performances
April 25-26, May 1-2 at 7:30 pm and April 26 & May 3 at 2 pm

Tickets available:
mesacc.edu/arts/go/kva