Luke Kozal participated in student-produced theatre festival

2014 Nov 10

Luke Kozal participated in the University of Dayton's inaugural White Box Theatre Festival Nov. 4-6, 2014.

The festival featured 12 short plays written by current students and alumni and directed by students, faculty and one alumnus. It was sponsored by and held at ArtStreet on the University of Dayton campus.

Luke participated in the festival in the following roles:

Actor, "Culmination of the Inevitable Conclusion"

Over the summer, a call for scripts went out to members of the University of Dayton community that drew inspiration from the books featured in the University's rare books exhibit.

Plays were cast during the month of September, and during the week of Oct. 13, the directors and actors had the opportunity to work with visiting artist-in-residence Kevin Douglas of the Lookingglass Theatre Company in Chicago.

"Theatre and performance can look and feel so different than what one might expect," said ArtStreet director and White Box Theatre Festival co-founder Brian LaDuca. "Progressive new staging design and subject matter inspired by visual aesthetic can be something so potent and powerful. The days of sitting and 'watching' theatre is over; now it needs to become intimate and interactive and that is what the White Box Theatre Festival is built upon."

"It comes from a genuine and real place. It's theatre without rules; it's anarchy on a stage," said Josh Chamberlain, University of Dayton alumnus and co-founder of the White Box Theatre Festival.