2007-2008 Season Dead Man Walking Nov. 8 -11, 15-18 By Tim Robbins based on the book by Sister Helen Prejean Directed by Valerie Rae Smith About the Show … Tim Robbins’ stage adaptation of Sister Helen Prejean’s best-seller follows a Catholic nun as she attempts to give spiritual counsel to a death row inmate. The play confronts the complexities of forgiveness as well as the morality of capital punishment. Want to know more? Check out these cast Interviews! http://media.messiah.edu/theatre/Stephanie_Interview.wsx Interview with Stephanie Leh, who plays Sister Helen Prejean http://media.messiah.edu/theatre/Bryant_Interview.wsx Interview with Bryant Vance, who plays Matthew Poncelet

The Cast Meets Sister Prejean!

Miller Auditorium
Nov. 8-10, 15-17 at 8 p.m.; Nov. 11 & 18 at 2 p.m.
Tickets: $5 students, $10 adults



About faculty director Valerie Rae Smith …
Valerie joined the faculty in 2000. She received her BA in Theatre/Education from Taylor University, Her MA from Miami University, and her Ph.D. in Theatre History, Literature and Criticism from Tufts University. As a practitioner, Valerie is a member of The American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, The Association for Theatre in Higher Education and the American Society for Theatre Research. In addition to teaching theatre at Tufts University and Boston College, Valerie served as Artistic Director for Circles of Girls, a pilot performing arts program for at-risk adolescents in Boston. Valerie teaches theatre history; dramatic literature, criticism and theory; gender and performance studies; acting, and directs in a variety of theatrical genres. Valerie directed the spring 2006 Mainstage production of Noises Off. Recent stage credits include The Vagina Monologues at Harrisburg’s Open Stage.