Directed by Carla Nell and Kym Pappas

 

Mesa College Administrators: Kris Clark & George Ye

 

Designers: Ashleigh Bodie (Stage Manager), Kasey Snowder (Scenic Design), Mark Butterfuss (Lighting Design), Jessie Monteiro (Costume Design), Kym Pappas & Carla Nell (Sound Design), Wendy Savage (Props Master), Tiffany Tang (Dramaturg), Kevin Six, Joe Fejeran, Lisa Davis (Marketing and Publicity)

 

Cast: Rhys Green (Janitor Baron), Lynae DePriest (Ms. Sun), Justine Hince (Ms. Tam), Rebekah Ensley (Coca), Brandon Kelly (Jerome), Robert Malave (Brian), Bianca Ostojich (Shondrika), Dempsey Davis (Xiomara), Carlos Angel-Barajas (Jose), John Rogers (Chris), Delia Knight (Mrs. Kennedy), Kent Gandola (Security Guard), Marc Amial Caro (Phillip), Jenni Olson-Six (Mrs. Projensky), Patrick Mayuyu (Mr. Johnson), Olivia Ruiz (Doña Guzman)

 

Photography by Paul Savage

 

“What you are about to see is a story about a play within a play within a play”

 

Nilaja Sun spent six weeks teaching/directing a play during No Child Left Behind. The play is Our Country’s Good, which is about a group of Australian royal marines and convicts putting on a production of The Recruiting Officer. The playwright performs No Child… as a one-woman show and licenses it out for theatrical productions.  Mesa College acting students work alongside professional actors.