RojoFest
presented by Ballard Institute & Museum of Puppetry and Connecticut Repertory Theatre
This inaugural festival of new works is a celebration of UConn dramatic arts students’ boundless creativity. Named in honor of the late Jerry Rojo, who served on the UConn faculty from 1961 to 1990 and designed the unique Mobius Theatre, the festival was born out of a desire to create a celebratory home for the creative writing, devising and theatre crafting of our amazing students!
The (First Annual) Jerry Rojo Festival of Original Student Work will run January 25-28 in multiple UConn drama spaces. The festival features two MFA Puppet Arts projects (by Abigail Baird and Carrie Fowler) and six additional student-generated performances.
All performances are free. Visit bimp.ticketleap.com to reserve your seats.
FRIDAY, JANUARY 26
A Shorter Scottish Play by Danny Kelly
10:00 PM - 10:30 PM
Nafe Katter Theatre Hallway, 820 Bolton Road, Storrs, CT 06269
Danny Kelly (they/he) is a multi-focused director, actor, singer, mover, makeup artist, and haunted attraction artist with a passion for bringing stories to life using untraditional methods. He is a Theatre Studies BA senior at UConn, who is extremely excited to be working on another project through the support of the Dramatic Arts program. Through their studies at UConn, they have been lucky enough to find themself working on a plethora of dramatic credits, including most recently directing Memories in Shadow.
A Shorter Scottish Play is a retelling of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, using the first two acts of the play. Sound and movement will immerse the audience in the themes within the text.