Welcome to The Loft Stage

The Loft Stage at East Ridge, a 938 seat state of the art facility, is home to East Ridge High School Band, Orchestra, Choir and Theater as well as the primary venue for Merrill Arts Center and many of our community's best fine arts events.
WELCOME TO THE LOFT STAGE

The Loft Stage at East Ridge, a 938 seat state of the art facility, is home to East Ridge High School Band, Orchestra, Choir and Theater as well as the primary
venue for Merrill Arts Center and many of our community's best fine arts events. If you have not yet visited the Loft, check out Little Women, coming this
January to The Loft Stage!

Feb 22nd

2020

Hobbit Audition Sides

Author By Leah

Auditions for the Hobbit are this Wednesday (Feb. 26th) and Thursday (Feb. 27th)! Below are the sides we will be using in auditions. Feel free to study them! Tomorrow we will be posting a video from our assistant director Meredith on some fight moves to study.

 

If you haven’t filled out an audition form, do so here!

https://forms.gle/8oF75neyrHSZLgAt8

 

Jan 13th

2020

Spring Play Auditions: The Hobbit

Author By Carlson

Auditions for this year’s spring play, The Hobbit, are Wednesday and Thursday, February 26-27th right after school in the black box theatre. Students only need come to one day of auditions. Callbacks will be posted online Thursday night (2/27) and will take place Friday, February 28th right after school. There is no need to prepare anything for the audition; instead, students will be performing cold reads from the actual show. There will be a movement portion to the audition, so please dress comfortably and be prepared to move.

All those auditioning must fill out the following Google form: https://forms.gle/8oF75neyrHSZLgAt8

Online script access can be found HERE.

Email spring play director Marcie Panian with any questions.

Interested in participating in technical crew? Fill out the tech interest form and join us Friday, February 28th after school in the choir room for our first tech crew meeting. Those unable to the make the meeting should email our technical director, Jimmy Stocco, at jstocco@theloftstage.org.

Jan 7th

2020

2020 District 833 One Act Festival

Author By Carlson

You’re invited to the 2020 District One Act Play Festival for the three high schools in the South Washington County School District at Woodbury High School. East Ridge, Park, and Woodbury will each perform their one act plays that they are taking to the Minnesota State High School League one act competition!  Come out and support District 833!

Tickets are General Admission, $5 each (available at the door only).

The Loft Stage @ East Ridge HS presents an original adaptation of Euripides’ “Medea” by Leah and Mark Jensen | The history is that Medea saved her future husband while destroying her own family. Now, married to Jason, she finds that he has betrayed her love and abandoned their children. In a desperate and powerful act, she kills her own sons.

Woodbury High School Royal Theatre presents “All By Myself” by Robert Scott | A one act comedy; seven years alone on an island after his shipwreck have driven Larry to the edge of sanity, but that’s nothing compared to the shock of discovering he’s not – and never has been – alone!

PHS Theater presents “The Diviners” by Jim Leonard, Jr. | A gifted young man, a conflicted preacher, and the divine destiny that changes their lives forever.

See you at Woodbury HS in the Royal Auditorium on January 17!

Dec 7th

2019

Medea Tech Crew

Author By Administrator

Thank you to everyone who expressed interest in tech crew for the one-act. We had more people interested in participating on the performance crew than the one-act rules allow bring with us, so I had the difficult job of narrowing it down. Please know that I want all of you to be involved in some way, even if you aren’t able to travel with the production, so please join us for set or costume construction. You can find the dates/times we are meeting on the calendar.

Stage Manager Emma Garrity
Deck Captain Jared Doran
Assistant Deck Captain Sidney Green
Props Mistress Abbie Marshall
Stage Running Crew Liv Meinders
  Hanna Meinders
Costume Running Crew Jo Dorau
Lighting Crew April O’Meara
Leo Ouradnik
Sound Crew Ian Winston

Dec 5th

2019

Medea Tech Info

Author By Administrator

For those that weren’t able to make the tech crew kick-off meeting, please find the presentation below. If you have questions after reviewing the presentation, please contact the technical director, Jimmy at jstocco@theloftstage.org.

Tech Crew Presentation

Please complete the following tech interest form so that we know what you are interested in doing. Performance crew positions will be announced by Monday, December 9th. Participation on a production crew does not require registration and is open to anyone who is interested.

Tech Crew Interest Form