Drama Association of Rossmoor (DAOR)
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    • A Doll's House, Part 2
    • Oklahoma singalong
    • Broadway Bound
    • Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
    • Photos 2017 - 2018

2019 PHOTOS

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Let's Have A Laugh
Comedy Class Showcase
The Way of all Fish, a one-act play by Elaine May
December 11, 2019

Instructor/Director/Actor:  Jean Wilcox
Photo by by ​Bill Reiley


​​Photos below by Aki Rasmussen​

Standing:  Jim Rapp, Marie Stillwagon, Bertha Reilly, Donna Kaulkin,
 Jane Sprouse, Roanne Butier, ​Shoya Warrington

​Seated:  Judith Hoppe, Gail Wetherbee, Sybil Boardman
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Musical Accompaniment: Ed Kimak
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"Way of all Fish" photos below by ​Bill Reiley
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Acting Our Lives:  Performance Memoir
Showcase: Sunday, November 10, 2019
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​L-R from top: Instructor Bobby Ausubel, 
Carol Kravitz,  E.J. Koch, Bertha Reilly, Cecelia Wambach, Elliott Tertes, Ros Carol,  Tancred Agius,  ​James Freeman, Marlene Candell, Wende Heath

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Photos by Bill Reiley

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Word for Word Workshop
October 8 and 15, 2019


Tancred Agius, Bobbi Ausubel, Margaret Bowen, Roanne Butier,
Edna Hall Hodgins, Donald Kaplan, Kevin O'Byrne,
Aki Rasmussen​, Jon Rasmussen, Vicki Stanley

Sheila Balter and Jeri Lynn Cohen from
Word for Word Performing Arts Company


Photos by Aki Rasmussen​

DAOR Annual General Meeting 
October 7, 2019
Photos by Aki Rasmussen​

Class Showcase / Waiting In The Wings:  An Actor Prepares
Instructor:  Jean Wilcox
July 29, 2019
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Some of My Best Friends Are Smiths
by David Compton
a provocative one-act play about 
irrational prejudice
Special thanks to David Wilcox for publicity, programs and moral support.
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​Standing, L-R:  Jane Sprouse, Alan Dampsey, Donna Kaulkin
Seated, L-R;  Wende Heath, Shoya Warrington, Jean Wilcox
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Photos by Aki Rasmussen


Acting Our Lives: Performance Memoir
Student Showcase:  June 15
Instructor:  Bobbi Ausubel​​
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​Seated, L-R:   Ed Houston, Renee Canney, Wende Heath,  Linda Neilsen
Standing, L-R:  
James Freeman,  Kathleen Epperson, Elliott Tertes,
​Marlene Candell, 
Alan Dempsey

Finding Truth on the Stage: An Approach to Acting
Instructor: Rod McFadden 
Student Showcase: May 21
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From top, left to right: 
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Aki Rasmussen and Claire Toaspern; 
Peg Bowen, Toby Cowen and Jon Rasmussen; 
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Gail Wetherbee, Roanne Butier and Linda Kelp; 
Rod McFadden; Sybil Boardman and Ed Kimak​
Photos by 
Aki Rasmussen


​Your Two Cents:  ​Tales of Qeresha
A play in progress by Bobbi Ausubel
Friday, May 17


First dramatic reading of a new play about a village in India transforming a heritage of sex trafficking.

Standing, l-r:   Marie Stillwagon, Kevin O'Byrne,  Aki Rasmussen, Jane Sprouse, Linda Neilson,  Judy Scott,  Tancred Agius, Wende Heath.
Seated: Playwright Bobbi Ausubel (left) and Sharon Noteboom.
Photo by 
Carmencita Lozano
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​Playwright Bobbi Ausubel takes notes while Rod McFadden facilitates questions and comments from the audience.


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Eugene O'Neill and Ireland
Friday, April 19

Dan McGovern, President of the Eugene O'Neill Foundation, spoke about Eugene O'Neill, the only American playwright to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature.  McGovern is the American Co-Chair of the Eugene O'Neill International Festival of Theatre in New Ross, Ireland and a Visiting Scholar in the theater department at Cal.

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Acting Our Lives:
Performance Memoir

April 14
Instructor: Bobbi Ausubel

​Participants:  Tancred Agius, Bertha Reilly, Ros Carol,
Elliott Tertes, Wende Heath,
Ina Bodnar, James Freeman, Alan Dampsey,  E. J. Koch, Marlene Candell, Corrine Merwin, Rosanna Radding, Renee Rasens-Medak, Susan Slizza, Linda Neilson,
Shoya Warrington, Donna Kaulkin
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Check out the video of this performance, compliments of James Freeman:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDIwXvf8oB8&feature=youtu.be


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Vintage Players' Showcase:
"Building a Character"

March 13
Instructors:  Linda Kelp and Gail Wetherbee  





Photos by Sandra Hawkins

"Broadway Bound" (by Neil Simon): Jon Rasmussen, Roanne Butier
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 "Vanities" (by Jack Heifner) - Jo Anne Lawrence, , Laura Bernell,  Bobbi Baron
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"Pygmalion"
(George Bernard Shaw) - Edna Coulson Hall,
​Tanc Agius

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 "The Grand Scheme" (by Jack Neary)  -  Bertha Riley, Sybil Boardman

​Your Two Cents:
Plays in Progress

February 15, 2019
Facilitator:  Rod McFadden
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​A Total Eclipse of the Heart

Playwright/Director: Sherman Brown
Actors: Gail Wetherbee,
Frank de Carbonel, Roanne Butier


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Claiming Amazon III
Playwright:  Robert Bakondi
Director/Narrator: Tancred Agius
Actor:  Bill Oakley


News
Playwright: Peggy Dougherty
Director: Gary Green
Narrator: Diana Nugent
Actors:  Lee Gale Gruen, Mar Jennings
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Gathering of the Company
January 7, 2019

A review of what DAOR did in 2018 and what is planned for our Tenth Anniversary Season, 2019. 
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  • Welcome
  • NEWS/EVENTS
  • PERFORMANCES
  • CLASSES
  • ORGANIZATION
  • PHOTOS
    • Photos 2020
    • Photos 2019
    • A Doll's House, Part 2
    • Oklahoma singalong
    • Broadway Bound
    • Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
    • Photos 2017 - 2018