The Rice Players

Howdy Friends,

We hope you’re enjoying your holiday break! Here are some announcements from us!

New Coordinators!
We are so incredibly excited to be bringing Maddie Bell (Jones '24), Jerome Cerio (Wiess '24), Ben Smiley (Wiess '24), and McKenna Tanner (Hanszen '24) on to our coordinating team! They’re absolutely incredible, and we’re excited to work with them to support the theater community. Thank you also to everyone else who applied. If you’re interested in being a Rice Players coord, we’ll take applications again next fall.

PlayFest!
The absolutely amazing winner of our Fall 2020 PlayFest is The Invention of Fireworks by Cooper Valentine, Duncan ’23. We’re so excited to be producing a virtual staged reading of this show late this spring. This show is being produced by Bria Weisz and Lydia Wang. Auditions for this show will be during the spring semester. If you’re interested in writing plays, remember that we’ll be accepting plays for our next PlayFest in the fall, so start writing now!

Spring Show!
We are also incredibly excited to announce that this spring we will be doing an in-person, full production of The Laramie Project. While this show will be performed in-person, we also intend to make it available for streaming. We believe this show will be a powerful opportunity for students to tell a heart-wrenching and important story. This show is being produced by Caleb Dukes and Alejandra Wagnon. We are currently looking for directors and designers. If you’re interested please reach out to us at [email protected]. Auditions will be at the beginning of the spring semester.

Alum Listserv!
This semester we’ve created an alumni listserv! If you’re an alum and you’d like to occasionally hear about what we’re up to, please fill out this form to sign up: https://forms.gle/DchgbwsoGGXXR7wd9!

Play Club!
For winter break, the Rice Players are reviving our book/play club for current students. Every two weeks we’ll get together to read and then discuss a play! It’s a great opportunity to interact with people and read more plays! Anyone is welcome, and you don’t have to be otherwise involved with the Rice Players. We’ll have our first meetings the week of January 4th. To make sure you can access the play, chat with everyone, and hop on our Zoom play club meetings, join our Facebook group here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/178868406738665!

Student Listserv and Discord!
If you’re a current student and you want to stay up to date with what we’re doing, join our listserv here: https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/riceplayers! Additionally, we have a discord where we host office hours and other communications that you can join by reaching out to us directly (message our account or email us at [email protected]).

Of course, we’ll also be coming at you with both some classic and new events next semester. We’re so excited about everything we’ve got in store so keep on eye on our listserv, Facebook, Insta, and discord to stay in the know (:

Hi Rice Players alums, parents, and friends!
The Rice Players have created a new Friends of the Rice Players listserv to connect with non-students: [email protected]! This listserv will send out (infrequent) announcements for shows and public events. To join, please click this link: https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/forp.

Additionally, we've realized that we don't have much information on who our alums are or how to connect with them. (We mostly have lists of names or rice emails, which aren't particularly helpful.) To help fix this, we're sending out this survey: https://forms.gle/yYW6BJy6PK2zBZg6A. Please fill it out and share it with all of your old theater friends so that we can keep in touch with all of our amazing alumni!

We hope you'll join us in our new endeavors toward stronger alumni and community relations!

Rice Players Alum Form Howdy! We've realized we don't have much information on who our alums are or how to connect with you. To fix this, we've made this form! We want to get to know you just a little bit and get the opportunity to let you know about our upcoming shows and reach out if we want to host events with alumni (...