Drama Gallery

Overview July 29, 2013

Drama Gallery

“I like the ephemeral thing about theater…every performance is like a ghost: it’s there and then it’s gone.” (Maggie Smith)

Photo gallery March 21, 2017

Achilles in America

Jesuit Drama 2008 Fall Play (Original Premiere)

Created by the Company

Photography by David Bischoff

Photo gallery May 1, 2017

Move

Jesuit Drama 2007 Spring Musical (Original Premiere)

A Company-Created Performance/Dance Piece

Dance/Movement by Chris Chandley, Cathy Levering, Ed Trafton & The Company

Photography by David Bischoff

Photo gallery October 19, 2017

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Jesuit Drama 2002 Spring Musical

An “Our Lady of the Reluctant Supplication (OLRS)” Presentation

Based on the book by Franklin L. Baum with Music & Lyrics by Harold Arlen and Yip Harburg

Photography by David Bischoff

Faculty/Staff June 14, 2011

Ed Trafton ’84
Jesuit Drama Artistic Director / Campus Ministry / English / VPA

Joining the faculty in the fall of 1990, Ed Trafton works in Campus Ministry as a liturgical musician and teaches senior English (Hero’s Journey) and Art of Film (A) and (B).

Off campus he works as a teaching artist at Broadway Sacramento/Music Circus and the Sacramento Theatre Company, as an accompanist/arranger/composer at St. Ignatius and St. Mary’s Church, and as a freelance arranger/composer/conductor/designer/director/pianist/playwright.

He considers it an honor to be working alongside some of his former teachers and former students.

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Pod October 16, 2019

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Pod September 5, 2011

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