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THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST

A Trivial Comedy for Serious People
By Oscar Wilde | Directed by Prof. Jennifer Dobby

March 3-5, 2022 | Otteson Theatre

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Cast and Crew
​•   ​John "Jack" Worthing – Josh Zielke
​•   ​Algernon Moncrieff – Phillip Steenbekkers
​•   ​Rev. Chausable – Mark Thompson
​•   ​Lane – Kyra Hiepas

​•   ​Merriman – Sergio Flores

​•   ​Director – Professor Jennifer Dobby
•   ​Assistant Directors – Lizzie Sage, Bekah Sprouse
•   ​Stage Manager – Sydney Kipp
​•   ​Assistant Stage Managers – Elena Donley, Lauren Murphy, Jessica Mayer, Bella Salefski, Grace Stormer, Emily Gonzalez
​​•   ​Dramaturg – Addi Gardner
​•   Fight Choreography – Professor James Zager
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•   ​ Gwendolen Fairfax – Emily Hintz
​•   ​Cecily Cardew – Olivia Cypcar

​•   ​Miss Prism – Anna-Christina Starszak
​​•   ​Lady Bracknell – Ruth Joy Tuttle 
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•   ​Lighting Designer – Tim L'Empereur '18
•   ​Costume Designer – Stephanie Brownell '12
•   ​Costume Coordinator – Cecelia Kuenn
•   ​Scenic Designer – Justin Gale

​•   ​Assistant Scenic Designer – Grace Saunders
•   ​Props Coordinator – Elena Donley
•   
Scenic Charge and Set Dressing – Grace Saunders and Grace Stormer
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The Importance of Being Earnest Summary 

The Original "Bridgerton!" 
 

​Two of London's most eligible bachelors, Jack and Algernon, are both living carefree and carefully hidden double lives. However, once Algernon discovers Jack's other flourishing identity, Ernest, a pseudonym which he uses to escape the country and galivant around the big city, Algy promptly travels to Jack’s country estate to pose as Ernest himself! And oh, the zaniness that ensues in search of the Truth -- including jealous and brilliant fiancées, an eagle-eyed and overbearing matriarch, and the most infamous handbag in all of Theatre History.  Don't miss your opportunity to see Oscar Wilde's time-honored, hilarious, and blistering satire of English Victorian society, which the London Telegraph calls “the most perfect comedy in the English language.”



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A picture of the Carroll Players' 1932 production of The Importance of Being Earnest from in the Carroll University Archives.  We are excited to be putting on the same production 90 years later as a part of Carroll University's 175th Anniversary and the Carroll Player's 125th Anniversary!

Questions?
Contact Prof. Dobby at [email protected], or stop by the Theatre Office and ask one of our workers!
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  • Home
  • 2025-2026 Season
    • BOEING BOEING
    • THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE
  • The Carroll Players
    • Student Org Meetings
    • Executive Board
  • THEATRE PROGRAM
    • Theatre Major
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  • Gallery
    • Summer Repertory Series >
      • Summer Rep 2014 - THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST & ANTON IN SHOW BUSINESS
      • Summer Rep 2015 - RENT & WOMEN OF MANHATTAN
      • Summer Rep 2016 - AS IT IS IN HEAVEN
      • Summer Rep 2017 - NEXT TO NORMAL
      • Summer Rep 2018 - ALMOST MAINE
      • Summer Rep 2019 - SPRING AWAKENING
      • Summer Rep 2022 - AMERICAN IDIOT
      • Summer Rep 2023 - HEATHERS THE MUSICAL
      • Summer Rep 2024 - SWEENEY TODD
      • Summer Rep 2025 - ALICE BY HEART
    • 2012-2013 >
      • True West
      • The Shape of Things
      • The Mystery of Edwin Drood
      • Hairspray
      • Vagina Monologues - 2013
      • Six Strangers
      • High School Musical
      • Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
    • 2013-2014 >
      • 24 Hour Show: Wake-Up Call
      • StopKiss
      • Spring Awakening
      • Tales of Odysseus
      • Minchin's
    • 2014-2015 >
      • Bat Boy: The Musical
      • Felt
      • Weekend of Women
      • Lucifer: Before the Red
      • Dead Man's Cell Phone
      • CUSS Festival
    • 2015-2016 >
      • Every-Body
      • Fat Pig
      • Sondheim's Women
      • The Untitled Women Project
      • A Workshop Musical: Heathers
    • 2016-2017 >
      • The Glass Menagerie
      • Senseless
      • Legally Blonde
      • Fefu and Her Friends
    • 2017-2018 >
      • Antigone
      • Numbers Nerds
      • Hamlet (A Cover)
    • 2018-2019 >
      • Stop Kiss
      • Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
      • Tartuffe
      • The Wonderful World of Dissocia
    • 2019-2020 >
      • Broadway's Best: A Cabaret
      • Once Upon A Mattress
      • Virtual Musical Theatre Cabaret
    • 2020-2021 >
      • ROMEO + JULIET (A COVER)
      • Festival of New Works
    • 2021-2022 >
      • Some Enchanted Evening
      • The Importance of Being Earnest
    • 2022-2023 >
      • 24 Hour Show - A Party To Die For
      • Godspell
      • THE THANKSGIVING PLAY
    • 2023-2024 >
      • LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS
      • 10x11 Play Festival
      • THE LIGHTNING THIEF
    • 2024-2025 >
      • Anything Goes
  • CONTACT US