Bethany Senior English Major Cody Whetstone directs in the Park, for BroadwayRFD. Bethany students frequently find a place in Lidsborg's summer theatre program.

Jill Warner ('07) prepares her cast for a staged reading and videotaping of her original screen play, presented as part of her senior project.

Visiting artist Lisa Wagner presented her portrayal of Catholic Worker movement founder Dorothy Day in her one woman show "Haunted by God" as part of the 2007 Messiah Festival.

Rehearsal shot from the 2006 One Act Festival. Christine and Jerri portray two parts of the teacher's psyche in the taunt room drama, "The Hall" authored by Bethany graduate Majkin Holmquist ('07).

Poster for Haunted by God

Omar and Larry in the student written and student directed one act, "Trust Me," part of the 2006 festival of student work.

Cody Whetstone, in the role of Barabbas, carries "The Hair Lip," played by Jerri Zehnder, after she has been stoned, in the 2006 Messiah Festival's "Barabbas," an original adaptation of Par Lagerkvist's novel of the same title.

Cody Whetstone and Chris Dienes in Barabbas.

The crowd of pious villagers stone "The Hair Lip" in a scene from Barabbas.

Stephanie ('06) and Christine ('06) in rehearsal for the 2006 original play festival's "The Hall."

Playwright Majkin Holmquist at work crafting rewrites for her original script "The Hall," which recieved it's premiere at Bethany in the Spring of 2006.

Majkin Holmquist as Sally Talley and Cody Whetstone as Matt Friedman in a scene from the 2007 Spring production, "Talley's Folly."

Perennial theatre favorite Jerri Zehnder went from a Communication Major at Bethany to working in television in Kansas City.

Bethany alumni Tyler and Molly Johnson returned to the Bethany stage as a distressed couple for an original one act play in the 2006 festival of stundet plays.

Theatre professor Greg LeGault.

Cody and Majkin in "Talley's Folly"