First Look: CCMONSTAGE Play Series presents 'Blue Stockings'
Watch CCM Acting students on stage in 'Blue Stockings' presented Feb. 10-13, 2022.
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UC’s College-Conservatory of Music (CCM) continues its CCMONSTAGE Play Series with Blue Stockings, running Feb. 10-13, 2022 in Patricia Corbett Theater. Jessica Swale's play shares a moving story of four young women fighting for education and self-determination against the backdrop of women’s suffrage in 1896 Britain.
CCM Acting presents "Blue Stockings." Photo by Mark Lyons.
Set in 1896 at England’s Girton College Cambridge, the first school open to female university students, the audience is met with four girls: Tess, Maeve, Celia and Carolyn, who made the courageous decision to pursue education in the Victorian period. They are ‘blue stockings’ - unnatural, educated women, stemming from different backgrounds but brought together by the determination to fight for their right to graduate.
Through strife and misogyny in the classroom, newfound love interests and troubles back home, they overcome these challenges to fight for womens' equal rights.
“The thing I enjoy most about this play is that higher education and knowledge are seen as an adventure," says CCM Acting Professor and Director Susan Felder. "Even riding a bicycle is a radical for women. Our heroines are courageous and resilient. The play is told with playfulness and hard-hitting truths.”
The 2021-22 CCMONSTAGE Play Series presents Blue Stockings Feb. 10-13, 2022 at Patricia Corbett Theater. Tickets are on sale now through the CCM Box Office; student discounts are available.
Blue Stockings
By Jessica Swale
Blue Stockings will last approximately two hours and 30 minutes with a 15-minute intermission.
- Director Susan Felder
- Scenic Designer Noam Denenberg*
- Lighting Designer William Baker*
- Costume Designer Brittannie McKenna Travis*
- Sound Designer Alex Brock*
- Wig & Make-Up Collaborators Tiara Jones* and Brittannie McKenna Travis*
- Make-Up Designer Tiara Jones*
- Production Stage Manager Haileigh Warren*
- Props Manager Finley Fields*
- Technical Director Jacob Blumberg*
- Dialect Coach Sarah Summerwell
- Fight Director k. Jenny Jones
*CCM student
- Tess | Liza Lagerstrom
- Celia | Shakoria Davis
- Carolyn | Emma Fitzgerald
- Maeve/Prof. Anderson, Lady | Rachel Larson
- Elizabeth Welsh | Michelle Joy Jardine
- Eleanor Blake | Ava Panagopoulos
- Dr. Maudsley/Mrs. Peck | Kristina Steinmetz
- Miss Bott/Mrs. Lindley | Ava Duvall
- Billy Sullivan/Prof Radleigh/Librarian | Nora Kovasckitz
- Minnie/Prof Collins/Waiter | Katie Kinman
- Edwards (the singer) | Lydia Robison
- Will | A.J. Civello
- Ralph | Galen Arnett
- Lloyd | Noah Buyak
- Holmes | Luke Danni
- Mr. Banks | Nathan Flesh
- Ralph/Will/Lloyd/Holmes/Mr. Banks Swing | Jack McElroy
- Minnie/Prof. Collins/Waiter/Billy Sullivan/Prof. Radleigh/Librarian/Miss Bott/ Mrs. Lindley Swing | Shaylee Bowman
- Billy Sullivan/Prof. Radleigh/Librarian/Miss Bott/Mrs. Lindley/Dr. Maudsley/Mrs. Peck Swing | Katie Kinman
- Fight Captain | Jack McElroy
Performance Times
- 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, February 9, 2022 (preview)
- 7:30 p.m. Thursday, February 10
- 7:30 p.m. Friday, February 11
- 2 p.m. Saturday, February 12
- 7:30 p.m. Saturday, February 12
- 2 p.m. Sunday, February 13
Location
Patricia Corbett Theater, CCM Village
University of Cincinnati
Purchasing Tickets
Single tickets are $32.50. Student discounts and group rates are also available. Tickets can be purchased in person at the CCM Box Office, over the telephone at 513-556-4183 or online now through our e-box office.
Learn about additional ticket options for current CCM students.
Directions and Parking
CCM is located on the campus of the University of Cincinnati. Please visit ccm.uc.edu/directions for detailed driving directions to CCM Village.
Parking is available in UC’s CCM Garage (located at the base of Corry Boulevard off Jefferson Avenue) and additional garages throughout the UC campus. Please visit uc.edu/parking for more information on parking rates.
For detailed maps and directions, please visit uc.edu/visitors.
Featured image at the top: A photo from CCM's production of "Blue Stockings." Photo by Mark Lyons.
Sponsors
Louise Dieterle Nippert Trust
Scholarship and Resident Artist Supporter
The Corbett Endowment at CCM
Dance Department Supporter
All-Steinway School Supporter
William L. Gasch Endowment Fund for Dance Excellence
Rachelle Bruno & Stephen Bondurant
Ellen K. Bastron
Dance Department Supporters
Bacchus Legacy Fund
Hawks Nest Private Wealth Scholarship Fund
Dr. & Mrs. Carl G. Fischer
Ric Sweeney & David Askew
Ken and Toni Kanter
Henry and Sandy Spitz
Greg Mathein
Jim & Linda Miller
Marty & Anne Pinales
Musical Theatre Department Supporters
GLP German Light Products
Dick & Chris Russell
Upstaging, Inc.
Theater Design & Production Supporter
The Estate of Genevieve Smith
Opera Production Supporter
Rafael and Kimberly de Acha
Opera D’Arte Supporter
The Friedlander Family
Dr. Randolph L. Wadsworth
Judith Schonbach Landgren and Peter Landgren
Mr. & Mrs. Harry H. Santen
Elizabeth C.B. Sittenfeld
Elizabeth Stone
Mrs. Thomas E. Stegman
Mrs. Theodore W. Striker
Ariel Quartet Supporters
The Friedlander Family
Karl Zipser
Chamber Music at CCM
Elizabeth Ann Leman Muennich MD, PhD, in memory of John Leman
Jan Rogers
Willard and Jean Mulford Charitable Fund of the Cambridge Charitable Foundation
Choral Studies Supporters
Mr. & Mrs. Joseph W. Hirschhorn
Philharmonia Supporters
Dorothy Richard Starling Foundation
Starling Pre-Collegiate Supporter
Starling Strings Supporter
Holly Brians Ragusa and Damon Ragusa
Dr. Timothy E. and Janet L. Johnson
Thom Miles and Roberta Gary
Strader Fund of the Greater Cincinnati Foundation
Dr. Stephen G. Schaeffer
Organ Department Supporters
Keyboard Club of Cincinnati
L. Ried Schott
Carl Rhodes & Lori Luchtman-Jones
Piano Department Supporters
Kevin and Nancy Rhein
Wind Studies Supporters
Willis Music
LINKS Instrument Donation Supporter
Supporters listed as of August 2026
Additional Contacts
Curt Whitacre | Director of Marketing/Communications | UC College-Conservatory of Music
whitaccp@ucmail.uc.edu | 513-556-2683
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