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Mission & Production History

The 40 year history of Salt Lake Acting Company is reflected in the expansive body of work it has produced and in the long-standing support of its most open and adventurous audience. SLAC produces seasons of thoughtful, provocative, regional and world premieres; nurtures, supports and develops a community of professional artists; produces and supports emerging playwrights; and makes a significant contribution to our community and to the American theatre field by commissioning, developing and producing new plays.

Production History (1969-2010)

The Marmalade Hill Center

2009-2010

The Caretaker by Harold Pinter
Master Class by Terrence McNally
Go, Dog. Go! adapted by Allison Gregory & Steven Dietz
Too Much Memory by Keith Reddin & Meg Gibson
Charm by Kathleen Cahill
Saturday's Voyeur 2010 by Allen Nevins & Nancy Borgenicht

The Overwhelming, 2008-2009 Season

2008-2009

The Overwhelming by J. T. Rogers
A Slight Discomfort by Jeff Metcalf
Six Years by Sharr White
Dark Play or Stories for Boys by Carlos Murillo
End Days by Deborah Zoe Laufer
Saturday's Voyeur 2009 by Allen Nevins & Nancy Borgenicht

2007-2008

Moonlight and Magnolias by Ron Hutchinson
Billion Dollar Baby by Julie Jensen
Skin in Flames (La Pell en Flames) by Guillem Clua, translation by D. J. Sanders
The Clean House by Sarah Ruhl
Saturday's Voyeur 2008 by Allen Nevins & Nancy Borgenicht

2006-2007

Rabbit Hole by David Lindsay-Abaire
Ice Glen by Joan Ackermann
SexSting by Doris Baizley & Susan Raffanti
Rounding Third by Richard Dresser
Saturday's Voyeur 2007 by Allen Nevins & Nancy Borgenicht

The Clean House, 2007-2008 Season

2005-2006

Swimming in the Shallows by Adam Bock
Man from Nebraska by Tracy Letts
I Am My Own Wife by Doug Wright
Boy by Julia Jordan
The Water Project short, original pieces by various playwrights
Saturday's Voyeur 2006 by Nancy Borgenicht & Allen Nevins

2004-2005

Bad Dates by Theresa Rebeck
Madagascar by J. T. Rogers
Polish Joke by David Ives
Dust Eaters by Julie Jensen
Saturday’s Voyeur 2005 by Allen Nevins and Nancy Borgenicht

2003-2004

Kimberly Akimbo by David Lindsey-Abaire
Bat Boy: The Musical Story and Book by Keythe Farley and Brian Flemming, Music and Lyrics by Laurence O'Keefe
Hold Please by Annie Weisman
The Goat or Who Is Sylvia by Edward Albee
Saturday's Voyeur 2004 by Allen Nevins and Nancy Borgenicht

2002-2003

Going To St. Ives by Lee Blessing
Big Love by Charles Mee
Lobby Hero by Kenneth Lonergan
Wait! by Julie Jensen
Saturday's Voyeur 25th Anniversary by Allen Nevins and Nancy Borgenicht

Big Love, 2002-03 Season

2001-2002

The Memory of Water by Shelagh Stephenson
The Beard of Avon by Amy Freed
Cabbies, Cowboys and the Tree of the Weeping Virgin 15 short plays by Utah Writers
Seeing the Elephant by J.T. Rogers
Saturday's Voyeur 2002: The Sorghum Chronicles by Nancy Borgenicht and Allen Nevins

2000-2001

White People by J.T. Rogers
Hysteria by Terry Johnson
Two Sisters and a Piano by Nilo Cruz
Freedomland by Amy Freed
Saturday's Voyeur 2001 by Nancy Borgenicht and Allen Nevins

1999-2000

The Beauty Queen of Leenane by Martin McDonagh
The Ride Down Mount Morgan by Arthur Miller
Two-Headed by Julie Jensen
Gun-Shy by Richard Dresser
Saturday's Voyeur 2000 by Nancy Borgenicht and Allen Nevins

1998-1999

Master Class by Terrence McNally
How I Learned To Drive by Paula Vogel
The Joy of Going Somewhere Definite by Quincy Long
Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde by Moisés Kaufman
Saturday's Voyeur '99: The Zoodoo Voodoo Follies by Nancy Borgenicht and Allen Nevins

1997-1998

Last Lists of My Mad Mother by Julie Jensen
Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) by Ann-Marie MacDonald
Three Days of Rain by Richard Greenburg
Mere Mortals by David Ives
Saturday's Voyeur '98: 20th Anniversary Cruise by Nancy Borgenicht and Allen Nevins

1996-1997

Nixon's Nixon by Russell Lees
Beast on the Moon by Richard Kalinoski
One Last Dance by Al Brown
Incorruptible by Michael Hollinger
Sylvia by A. R. Gurney
Saturday's Voyeur '97: Jordan Riverdance by Nancy Borgenicht and Allen Nevins

1995-1996

Three Tall Women by Edward Albee
Angels in America, Part I: Millennium Approaches by Tony Kushner
Winter of the Deer by David Kranes
Angels in America, Part II: Perestroika by Tony Kushner
Napoleon's China by Ann Haskell, Sherry Kramer & Rebecca Newton
Saturday's Voyeur '96: Phatman of the Opera by Nancy Borgenicht and Allen Nevins

1994-1995

Voices in the Dark by John Pielmeier
Keely and Du by Jane Martin
An Empty Plate in the Café Du Grand Boeuf by Michael Hollinger
All In The Timing by David Ives
Gunmetal Blues by Scott Wentworth, Craig Bohmler, Marion Adler
Sight Unseen by Donald Margulies
Saturday's Voyeur '95: Spirit of the Hive by Nancy Borgenicht and Allen Nevins

1993-1994

Nunsense II by Dan Goggin
Salt Lake Salt Lake by Laurie Johnson and Richard Jewkes
Painting Churches by Tina Howe
Oleanna by David Mamet
Zara Spook and Other Lures by Joan Ackerman Blount
Marvin’s Room by Scott McPhearson
Song of Singapore by Alan Katz, Erik Frandsen, Robert Hipkens, Michael Garin, Paula Lockhart
Saturday’s Voyeur by Nancy Borgenicht and Allen Nevins
Wild Guys by Andrew Weggit and Rebecca Shaw

1992-1993

God’s Country by Steven Dietz
Salt Lake Salt Lake by Edward J. Gryska and Ron VanWoerden
Parallel Lives: The Kathy and Mo Show by Kathy Najimy, Mo Gaffney
FF: The Brontes by Aden Ross
Oil City Symphony

1991-1992

Nine by Arthur Kopit
K-Mille by Aden Ross
The Lisbon Traviata by Terrence McNally
Abundance by Beth Henley
Nunsense by Dan Goggin

1990-1991

M. Butterfly by David Henry Hwang
White Man Dancing by Stephen Metcalfe
White Money by Julie Jensen
The Heidi Chronicles by Wendy Wasserstein
Saturday’s Voyeur: Summer Roadshow by Nancy Borgenicht and Allen Nevins

1989-1990

La Cage Aux Folles by Jerry Herman, Harvey Fierstein
Saturday’s Voyeur: Christmas Roadshow '89 Originally created by Nancy Borgenicht and Michael Buttars. Additional Material 1979-1989 by Nancy Borgenicht and Edward J. Gryska
Women and Wallace by Jonathan Mark Sherman
The Ghostman by Wendy Hammond
The Road to Mecca by Athol Fugard
The Voice Of the Prairie by John Olive

1988-1989

Steel Magnolias by Robert Harland
Saturday’s Voyeur: Christmas Roadshow '88 Originally created by Nancy Borgenicht and Michael Buttars. Additional Material 1979-1988 by Nancy Borgenicht and Edward J. Gryska
Hunting Cockroaches by Janusz Glowacki
Beirut by Alan Bowen
1102 And 1103 by David Kranes
Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up? By John R. Powers, James Quinn and Alaric Jans

1987-1988

On The Verge (Or The Geography Of Yearning) by Eric Overmeyer
Saturday’s Voyeur: 10th Anniversary Roadshow Originally created by Nancy Borgenicht and Michael Buttars. Additional Material 1979-1987 by Nancy Borgenicht and Edward J. Gryska
Sand Mountain by Romulus Linney
Cantrell by David Kranes
Livin’ Dolls

1986-1987

Little Shop Of Horrors by Howard Ashmane, Alan Menken
Montana by David Kranes
Bigfoot Stole My Wife by Ron Carlson
Saturday’s Voyeur: Christmas Roadshow '86 Originally created by Nancy Borgenicht and Michael Buttars. Additional Material 1979-1986 by Nancy Borgenicht and Edward J. Gryska
The Foreigner by Larry Shue
Out of Gas On Lovers Leap by Mark St. Germain
Brighton Beach Memoirs by Neil Simon

1985-1986

Danny And The Deep Blue Sea by John Patrick Stanley
Saturday’s Voyeur: Christmas 85 by Nancy Borgenicht and Michael Buttars, additional material by Edward J. Gryska
Standing On My Knees by John Olive
Idle Wheels by James Morrison
Angry Housewives by A.M. Collins and Bert Kalmar

1984-1985

Pacific Overtures by Stephen Sondheim, John Weidman and Hugh Wheeler
Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You by Christopher Durang
Wave’s Home For Hurtin’ Tammies by Gail Wronsky
In A Coal Burning House by Jeffrey Kinghorn
Fool For Love by Sam Shepard

1983-1984

Women Behind Bars by Tom Eyen
The Salmon Run by David Kranes
Still Life by Emily Mann
Cloud 9 by Caryl Churchill
Saturday's Voyeur by Nancy Borgenicht and Michael Buttars

1982-1983

Gemini by Alberto Innaurato
Miss Margarida's Way by Roberto Athayde
The Gin Game by D.L. Coburn
I Love My Wife by Michael Stewart and Cy Coleman
Private Parts by Lyn Tylor, Aden Ross, Ron Carlson, Sumerset Maughan, Jane Martin
Mulebones by Al Brown
Saturday's Voyeur by Nancy Borgenicht and Michael Buttars

The Glass Factory Theatre

1981-1982

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee
Wanted: Billy The Kid by Aden Ross
Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen

1980-1981

Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
I Bring You Millay
The Good Doctor by Neil Simon
Back to Back by Al Brown
Saturday's Voyeur by Nancy Borgenicht and Michael Buttars

1979-1980

The Shadow Box by Michael Cristofer
Fifth of July by Lanford Wilson
Zelda by William Luce
Summer and Smoke by Tennessee Williams
The Curse of the Starving Class by Sam Shepard
Heartbreak House by George Bernard Shaw
Disco World by Cris Paulsen
Saturday's Voyeur: Roadshow '79 by Nancy Borgenicht and Michael Buttars

1978-1979

Pippin by Stephen Schwartz
Sweet Eros by Terrence McNally
The Beard by Michael McClure
American Buffalo by David Mamet
El Grande de Coca-Cola
Dear Liar by Jerome Kilty
Saturday's Voyeur: Roadshow '78 by Nancy Borgenicht and Michael Buttars

Elliot Hall

1977-1978

Bullshot Crummond by Ron House
Sylvia Plath: A Dramatic Portrait
The Oldest Living Graduate by Preston Jones
The Maids by Jean Genet
Bad Habits by Terrence McNally
Saturday's Voyeur by Nancy Borgenicht and Michael Buttars

1976-1977

Kennedy's Children by Robert Patrick
Fortune and Men's Eyes by John Herbert
Company by Stephen Sondheim
The African Bee Invasion by Anne Chamberlain
The Holy Ghostly by Sam Shepard
The Shanghai Gesture
Crimes of Passion (or the Fatal Punch)

1974-1975

Starfish by Ken Jenks
El Grande de Coca-Cola by Ron House
Garden District by Tennessee Williams
The Importance of Being Ernest by Oscar Wilde
Turds in Hell by Charles Ludlam and Bill Vehr
The Bald Soprano by Eugene Ionesco
One Acts: Why is Glida Turning So Gray?, Camera Obscura, Solitaire
The Zoo Story by Edward Albee

1973-1974

The Little Foxes by Lillian Hellman
Improvisation, or The Shepard’s Cameleon by Eugene Ionesco
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare
Barefoot in the Park by Neil Simon
Old Times by Harold Pinter

1972-1973

Godspell by Stephen Schwartz and John-Michael Tebelak
The American Dream by Edward Albee
Beauty and the Beast by Jean Cocteau
Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma’s Hung You In the Closet and I’m Feeling So Sad by Arthur Kopit
Hair by Jerome Ragni and Galt McDermott