Kevin Nguyen
...when a series of violent, senseless attacks across America creates a national panic, prompting a government policy that pushes Vietnamese Americans into internment camps. Jen and Duncan are sent with their mother to Camp Tacoma while Ursula and Alvin receive exemptions. Cut off entirely from the outside world, forced to work jobs they hate, Jen and Duncan try to withstand long, dusty days in camp and acclimate to life without the internet. That is, until...
Chautauqua Board Appoints Kyle Keogh Interim Chief Executive
The Chautauqua Institution Board of Trustees today announced that Kyle Keogh has been appointed Interim Chief Executive of Chautauqua Institution. The appointment is effective June 1, 2025, following Michael E. Hill’s previously announced plans to depart from Chautauqua on May 31 to become President of Randolph-Macon College. Keogh is a proven executive with significant experience in strategy, finance, and technology and an established track record of successfully overseeing transformations, driving growth, and enhancing the...
Chautauqua Theater Company Announces World Premiere of Kate Hamill’s ‘The Light and The Dark’
Chautauqua Theater Company (CTC), the resident theater company of Chautauqua Institution, announced today it will produce the world premiere of Kate Hamill’s newest play, The Light and The Dark. Directed by Producing Artistic Director Jade King Carroll, the play will be staged during the final two weeks of the nine-week Summer Assembly (June 22–August 25, 2024). Kate Hamill is an award-winning, NYC-based actor/playwright. In 2017, The Wall Street Journal named Hamill Playwright of the Year,...
Chautauqua Theater Company Announces 2023 New Play Workshops
CHAUTAUQUA, N.Y. — Chautauqua Theater Company (CTC), the resident theater company of Chautauqua Institution, today announced its New Play Workshops for the 2023 season, its first under the leadership of Producing Artistic Director Jade King Carroll. CTC’s audience will have the opportunity to experience plays at every stage of development by the country’s most exciting playwrights. From a first new play reading to a staged workshop, from a world premiere to a published adaptation,...
Alumni in the News
...Dinner With Friends. Andrea Syglowski (’11) plays Susie in John Patrick Shanley’s Brooklyn Laundry at Manhattan Theatre Club. Yonatan Gebeyehu (’17) cast in the world premiere of Jesús I. Valles’ BATHHOUSE.PPTX Whitney White (’20) directs Ife Olujubi’s Jordans at The Public Theatre’s LuEsther Hall. Around the Country Caitlin Clouthier (’07) plays Edna Buchanan in Dangerous Day at Colony Theater in Miami Beach. Amelia Pedlow (’08/09) played Hester Prynne on Two River Theater’s world premiere of...
History
...new and undiscovered works to the COA including Ward’s The Crucible, Wagner’s Tannhauser and Die Walküre as well as Hanson’s Merry Mount. Hanson’s opera was the crowning achievement of Treash’s years at Chautauqua. Mr. Treash was also instrumental in establishing and expanding the Young Artist Program with grants from the Martha Baird Rockefeller Fund and the New York State Council for the Arts. The present Chautauqua Opera Guild was established in 1974. To this day,...
Chautauqua Opera and Conservatory Eyes 2025 Shift to New American Workshops
...and pedagogical priorities at Chautauqua. Our planning efforts and conversations intend to ensure that.” *The Chautauqua Community joins the world in mourning the passing of Marlena Malas on December 4, 2023. We honor her more than four decades of leadership and service to our Opera Conservatory. About Chautauqua Institution Chautauqua Institution is a not-for-profit, 750-acre community on Chautauqua Lake in southwestern New York State, where approximately 7,500 persons are in residence on any day during...
Chautauqua Opera Company and Conservatory Announces 2025 Season
Chautauqua Opera Company and Conservatory, the resident opera company and conservatory of Chautauqua Institution, announced today its 2025 season. Chautauqua Opera Company For its 2025 season, Chautauqua Opera continues its 95-year history of producing opera at Chautauqua Institution while also strengthening its commitment to developing new opera. Alongside a production of Puccini’s La bohème in Chautauqua’s Amphitheater, the company will conduct workshops of three new operas. Ranging from chamber operas to large-scale pieces, these workshops...
Six EV Charging Plugs Added to Chautauqua Institution Campus in Advance of Retool ’23 Conference
...collaborates with customers toward a shared, clean energy transition, and are central to the company’s Project C initiative, which was created to inspire change and create a more equitable future for our customers and our communities. ### About Chautauqua Institution Chautauqua Institution is a not-for-profit, 750-acre community on Chautauqua Lake in southwestern New York State, where approximately 7,500 persons are in residence on any day during a nine-week season, and a total of more than...
Jaquira Díaz
...more difficult than she imagined, and she soon finds herself struggling to make a home for herself, for Rey, his young brother Tito, and eventually, their daughter Nena. Until one fateful day changes everything. Fifteen years later, Maricarmen and Nena find themselves in the middle of a murder investigation as the community that once rallied to support Rey turns against them. Now Nena, a teenager haunted by loss and betrayal and exploring her sexual identity,...