Casting Hall Productions
As Buffalo State's student operated and funded theater production company and co-producer for the Theater Department’s season, Casting Hall Productions provides students with the opportunity for practical experience in all aspects of theater production, including publicity, costume and set construction, technical staffing, production management and budget management.
2025-26 Productions
It's a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play
November 12 - 16, 2025
Adapted by Joe Landry
It's a Wonderful Life is based on the story "The Greatest Gift" by Philip Van Doren Stern. "The Greatest Gift" is used by permission of The Greatest Gift Corporation
Directed by Jennifer Toohey
This beloved American holiday classic comes to captivating life as a live 1940s radio broadcast. With the help of an ensemble that brings a few dozen characters to the stage, the story of idealistic George Bailey unfolds as he considers ending his life one fateful Christmas Eve.
Pipeline
April 15 - 19, 2026
By Dominique Morisseau
Directed by Jennifer Toohey
Nya, an inner-city public high school teacher, is committed to her students but desperate to give her only son Omari opportunities they’ll never have. When a controversial incident at his upstate private school threatens to get him expelled, Nya must confront his rage and her own choices as a parent. But will she be able to reach him before a world beyond her control pulls him away?
With profound compassion and lyricism, Pipeline brings an urgent conversation powerfully to the fore. Morisseau pens a deeply moving story of a mother’s fight to give her son a future — without turning her back on the community that made him who he is.
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Come to a Meeting
All Buffalo State students are welcome! General membership meetings are held the first Tuesday of each month, during Bengal Pause (12:15 - 1:30 p.m).
All meetings are held in the Flexible Theatre, Savage Theater and Communication Building.
Sept 2, 2025 Feb 3, 2026
Oct 7, 2025 Mar 3, 2026
Nov 4, 2025 Apr 7, 2026
Dec 2, 2025 May 5, 2026
Casting Hall Executive Board
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Anne Gerace, President
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Manuel Mejia, Vice President
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Phoebe Auquier, Treasurer
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Syed Chowdhury, Secretary
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Rio Wood, PR Manager
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Jaiden Morey, Marketing Manager
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Stepheney Warnstadt, Audience Services Manager
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Connor Johnson, Organization Representative
Past Productions
Ride the Cyclone: The Musical
March 13-16, 2025
Book, Music & Lyrics by jacob Richmond and Brooke Maxwell.
Directed by Sabrina Kahwaty ~ Musical Direction: Karen Saxon ~ Choreography: Naila Ansari Catilo
Past Productions
Little Shop of Horrors
Book and Lyrics by Howard Ashman. Music by Alen Henken
Directed and Choreographed by Bobby Cooke. Musical Direction by Kathleen Dunne. Assistant Directed by Jake Grear.
On the Verge
By Eric Overmyer; Directed by Bella Poynton.
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Pippin
Music and Lyrics by Stephen Schwartz; Book by Roger O. Hirson.
Directed by Lissette DeJesus. Musical Direction by Kathleen Dunne. Choreography by Bobby Cooke.
Medea
by Robinson Jeffers freely adapted from Euripides. Directed by Victoria Pérez.
Heathers the Musical
Book, music and lyrics by Laurence O'Keefe and Kevin Murphy. Directed by Jennifer Toohey
The Tragedy of Macbeth
by William Shakespeare. Directed by Jonathan Seinen.
Mother C
by Ansley Valentine. Suggested by the play "Mother Courage and her Children" by Bertolt Brecht
Directed by Jonathan Seinen
Othello
Written by William Shakespeare
Directed by Jennifer Toohey
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The Drowsy Chaperone
Book by Bob Martin and Don McKellar, Music and Lyrics by Lisa Lambert and Greg Morrison
Directed and Choreographed by Carlos Jones; Associate Director- Lee Becker; Associate Choreographer- Robin Barker
Made possible by funding from Andy Anselmo.
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Intimate Apparel
Written by Lynn Nottage
Directed by Lara D. Haberberger
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The Space Between
By THA 470 Theater Ensemble class
Directed by Julieana Guash and Lily Jones; Co-produced by the Anne Frank Project
The Color Purple
Book by Marsha Norman, Music and Lyrics by Brenda Russell, Allee Willis and Stephen Bray
Directed by Jennifer Toohey
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The Wolves
By Sarah DeLappe
Directed by Lorna C. Hill
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Blood at the Root
by Dominique Morrisseau
Directed by Aaron Moss
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Deranged Durang One Acts
by Christopher Durang
Directed by Shaun McLaughlin
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Cabaret
by Joe Masteroff; Music by John Kander & Fred Ebb
Directed by Jennifer Toohey
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Working
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Night of the Iguana
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The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
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The Brothers Size
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Ladies' Man
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Footloose
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Romeo and Juliet
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The Mousetrap
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Hedda Gabler
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Noises Off
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The Doctor in Spite of Himself
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Julius Caesar
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Stepmother
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Dames At Sea
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Doubt, a Parable
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