Theatre Major and Minor

Commencement is not only a time of ushering the graduating class of 2024 into the next phase of their journeys, but also our esteemed Albion College faculty and instructional staff retiring after decades of commitment and service.

Albion’s Theatre Department delivers a gory action spectacular about who survives and what they become after the world ends in its production of 2AZ. The play was originally developed and world-premiered by Jeff Daniels’ Purple Rose Theatre Company in 2015. Albion’s production is only the second staging of 2AZ.

Albion’s beloved dance instructor Melissa “Missy” Blair Wyss passed away June 21, the day after her 79th birthday.

Director and Theatre Department Chair Zach Fischer casts College staff in play’s parental roles.

For Fischer, being chair of the Theatre Department at Albion College is the realization of a long-held dream.

Detroit ’67 is scheduled to run September 18-20 as an outdoor production on the front steps of Kresge Gymnasium. From the cast members to the audience on the Quad, social distancing will be in effect. So will a certain Briton determination and pride.

Noah Ascencio, ’22, received five-figure scholarship offers from some of the country’s top theatre schools—but he says his love for theatre was actually one reason for choosing Albion’s program.

The Rollin M. Gerstacker Foundation is providing $500,000 toward the renovation and reconfiguration of two adjacent vacant sites, at 117 and 119 S. Superior St., into a dynamic performance space that will serve Albion College students, faculty and staff in addition to the community as a local youth and adult community theatre.

Zach Fischer has brought his lifelong love of acting to Albion College and hopes to show students, through his experience in the rough-and-tumble industry, that doing good work is often its own reward.