RjW Mays

Jacqui Jaurena

Rose Hamill

Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alums are on the creative/production team of the audio drama Primer, streaming on-demand from Broken Nose Theatre November 15 through December 5. Tickets are available here. Tickets for all Broken Nose Theatre performances are “Pay-What-You-Can,” allowing patrons to set their own price. The show’s cast includes Columbia College alum RjW Mays ’06, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Acting. Columbia alums Jacqui Jaurena ’16, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Musical Theatre, is the production’s editor. Broken Nose’s managing director is Columbia alum Rose Hamill ’16, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Theatre Technology.

When looters smash in a Michigan Avenue store’s front windows, this singular act of destruction affects a host of individuals, including the store’s security team, managers, and employees. Featuring a sequence of scenes that view the incident from vastly different perspectives, Primer offers a panorama of a single act of looting in the heart of the Magnificent Mile, examining institutions’ tendencies to prioritize property over people and America’s eagerness to cover up its blemishes, rather than treating the sicknesses that live just beneath the surface.