The Department of Dramatic Art’s Professional Actor Training Program with PlayMakers Repertory Company Presents the Ground Floor Series!
2025/26 Season
Back, Back, Back by Itamer Moses, directed by Gwendolyn Schwinke
October 10 – 14, 2025
Featuring PATP Residents: Class of 2028 actors Dawson Boudreaux, Trevele Morgan, and Adam Moskowitz.
The Flick by Annie Baker, directed by Jim Bray
Featuring PATP Residents: Actors Dawson Boudreaux, Trevele Morgan, Caroline Marques, and Matthew Donahue.
PERFORMANCES:
Monday, Feb 9 at 7:30 pm
LOCATION:
Swain Hall
101 East Cameron Ave.
Chapel Hill, NC, 27514
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FREE Admissions!
SYNOPSIS:
In a run-down movie theater in central Massachusetts, three underpaid employees mop the floors and attend to one of the last 35mm film projectors in the state. Their tiny battles and not-so-tiny heartbreaks play out in the empty aisles, becoming more gripping than the lackluster, second-run movies on screen. With keen insight and a finely-tuned comic eye, The Flick is a hilarious and heartrending cry for authenticity in a fast-changing world.
for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf by Ntozake Shange, directed by Tia James
Starring PATP Resident: Mengwe Wapimewah
PERFORMANCES:
Friday, Feb 6 at 8 pm
Saturday, Feb 7 at 8 pm
Sunday, Feb 8 at 3 pm
Monday, Feb 9 at 5:30 pm
Tuesday, Feb 10 at 8 pm
LOCATION:
Frey Rehearsal Hall
Joan H. Gillings Center for Dramatic Art
120 Country Club Rd.
Chapel Hill, NC, 27514
Save the date. We hope to see you at the show! Feel free to invite friends and your contacts.
FREE Admissions!
SYNOPSIS:
Capturing the brutal, tender and dramatic lives of contemporary Black women, for colored girls… offers a transformative, riveting evening of provocative dance, music and poetry.
About DDA Ground Floor Series
Studio Productions from the Professional Actor Training Program
At the heart of every theatrical production, regardless of scope, are the artists who posit questions about the human experience. The Department of Dramatic Art’s Professional Actor Training Program with Playmakers Repertory Company’s Ground Floor is an occasional series that engages our graduate acting company in material chosen (and sometimes written) specifically for them. These studio productions focus on the actors and the marrow of their process, and are led by insightful and resourceful directors from within the company or those visiting on fellowships.