Theatre

About Ampersand

The Upper School’s Ampersand theatre group, conducted jointly with St. Christopher’s, launches three major productions per year in McVey Theatre, and offers countless ways for students to get involved. An advanced curriculum in theatre and technical theatre  provides instruction in topics ranging from acting to set design and construction. Students may choose to work on a technical crew, explore stage managing, tackle light or sound design, or even direct.

Outré is the joint theatre company for St. Christopher's and St. Catherine's Middle Schools. Outré produces a fall play and a winter musical with approximately 100 students participating (cast and crew) in each show. In Outré, Middle School students work together on all aspects of the theatre production. Participants are responsible for set design, construction, acting, choreography and marketing for their productions.


Final Chapel in McVey Theatre

Previous Productions

  • The Winter's Tale
  • Winter One Acts 2019
  • Into the Woods
  • Metamorphoses
  • The Addams Family
  • The Matchmaker
  • Winter One Acts 2017
  • Seussical, the Musical
  • Almost, Maine
  • The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
  • Twelfth Night, or What You Will
  • AMADEUS by Peter Shaffer
  • OUR TOWN by Thornton Wilder
  • Winter One Acts
  • Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat
  • Noises Off
  • Chicago
  • As You Like It
  • Guys and Dolls
  • Rosencrantz and Gildenstern Are Dead
  • Spoon River Anthology
  • Little Shop of Horrors
  • Proof (2001) a play by David Auburn
  • Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
  • Antigone by Jean Anouih
  • A Midsummer Night's Dream
  • And Then They Came for Me: Remembering the World of Anne Frank
  • Over the Tavern
  • The Imaginary Invalid
  • WASP
  • Poof!
  • A Rustle of Wings
  • On the Edge
  • Infancy

The Winter's Tale

Previous Productions

List of 5 members.

  • Maury Hancock 

    Director of Theatre - Ampersand
    University of Richmond - B.A.

  • Kendall Neely 

    Arts Coordinator, Chair of Theatre and Dance
    804-288-2804 x3055
    James Madison University - B.A.

  • Carter Dixon 

    Teacher, M.S. Theatre
    Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University - B.A.

  • Lynn West 

    Theatre Costumer
    Virginia Commonwealth University - BFA

  • Jeremy "Jer" Dunn 

    Middle School Teacher of Science and Drama, MS Play and Musical
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