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THEATER DEPARTMENT PRESENTS “SENIOR CAPSTONE 2025”
May 16 @ 3:45 pm - 5:15 pm
Recommended for ages 12 and older.
Senior Capstone 2025
Senior Capstone is a quarter long, process-driven project required for graduation by the Perpich Theater Program. Seniors execute and thoroughly document a sustained project of their own design over the course of 4th quarter. Projects may be connected to creative collaborative production and may take the form of, but are not limited to: a research paper, creation of an original work – play, movement, cabaret, costume, set design, voice over, sound score, etc. This serves as the “capstone” Perpich experience, bringing together two years of coursework and productions in theater arts and musical theater, and preparing students for life and work after departing Perpich Arts High School. Instructors Tory Peterson and Kevin Hohlstein serve as resources in the planning stages, advise on the progress of the project, and evaluate its effectiveness and quality.
Each Senior is allotted 10 minutes to use however they choose to develop their Capstone Project. When working with other Seniors, their time can be pooled together to showcase work. Juniors are cast as needed in certain Capstones. Each Senior is given a Community Mentor, a professional in the field that supports Senior Capstone work, from theater directors, performers, costume design, voice talent, and animators.
- Charli Pedersen – an epistolary performance based on their great grandfather’s letters.
- Greta “Gerwig” Kunene – a solo performance in the thematic styling of Roger Guenveur Smith
- Ian Garrido-Lavendar – a movement/clowning/commedia piece
- Miryam Donsker – a “spoof” written with a song and characters from “Buffy The Vampire Slayer”
- Warren Mulholland Coler (Directing) & Olivia Solinger (Acting) – along with four Juniors will produce “Duet for Dog and Bear” by playwright Sybil Rosen
- Tory Peterson, along with three Juniors, will produce an immersive scene from Tina Howe’s play “Museum” in the Perpich Visual Arts gallery
Anthony Sisler-Neuman (Theater 2000) is the professional theater mentor for all 2025 Theater Seniors. Anthony is cofounder for Graceful Monsters Educational Theatre Collective, a process-driven educational theatre in Minneapolis, MN that fosters a safe space for young artists to create, learn, and be empowered to explore their own stories. He grew up as a theater kid in the Twin Cities, working at most of the local youth companies. He went on to study theater at Perpich Arts High School where he learned the love for verbatim theater and shifted gears to playwriting at Columbia College Chicago. Anthony has been directing and educating youth since 2012, while continuing to work as a theater professional. His lifelong dream of having an educational theatre collective has finally come true, alongside his wife, which is truly the only way it could have happened. He is an avid believer that theater changes lives and continues to be inspired by the young artists he works with every day.
