WAUKESHA – Mark Lococo, who is directing the original play written by University of Wisconsin-Waukesha Professor of English Margaret Rozga, has selected a cast of nine students for parts in March On Milwaukee: A Memoir of the Open Housing Protests.

It will be performed at UW-Waukesha Fridays and Saturdays, April 13, 14, 20, and 21, at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, April 15, at 2:00 p.m. and will be staged in the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, located in the Fine Arts Center on campus at 1500 N. University Dr., Waukesha.

Appearing in the work, which reaches back 40 years and commemorates a tumultuous but history-making time in the local civil rights movement, will be:

Delafield: Cody Kreidler

Helenville: Carly Malison

Menomonee Falls: Crystasany Turner

Milwaukee: Kimberly Hamilton and Michael Hopkins II

New Berlin: Michael Jornlin

Oconomowoc: Rachel Matteson

Waukesha: Joshua Liston and Angela Russell

Other students assisting with the play will be stage manager Megan Plicka, West Allis, and crew, Matt Weiskotten, Colgate, Emily Kosanke and Mike Szachewicz, Hartland, and Flynn Woller, New Berlin. Casielene Thigpen, Waukesha, will serve as the dramaturg for the production.

The campus theater manager, Jeff Smerz, West Allis, will do the design and technical direction. Lococo is an associate professor of Communication & Theatre Arts and the campus theater director.

Tickets are available by phoning (262) 521-5212, and the box office will open an hour before each performance.  All seating is general admission. Adults are $8; senior citizens (62+) and students $7, and UW-Waukesha students with ID free.

UW-Waukesha has the largest enrollment among the 13 freshman-sophomore University of Wisconsin Colleges campuses. For information about programs, admission, or financial aid, contact the Student Services office at (262) 521-5200 or visit the Web at www.waukesha.uwc.edu.

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