MOUNT VERNON -- Cornell College students will host "The Gumbo Project," a performance festival featuring traditional theater, standup comedy and performance art, Friday and Saturday, April 23 and 24, at 8 p.m. in the Plumb-Fleming Studio Theatre, a 120-seat black box theater in Armstrong Hall. Free tickets are available at the door.
Scheduled performances are:
- "Hold for Three," a short comic play featuring freshmen Jess Dunne of Minneapolis, Haley Isaf of Bainbridge Island, Wash., and Parker Reynolds of Leawood, Kan.
- "Sisters," a play about a conversation during a tennis match, featuring freshmen Colleen Metzger of Naperville, Ill., and Holli Gipson of Fort Worth, Texas, and sophomore Joe Foley of Mendota Heights, Minn.
- A standup comedy routine by Christopher Schlichting, senior from Davenport.
- A musical performance by Hannah Gansen, junior from Toddville.
- "What Are You Doing In There?," a short drama, directed by freshman Joey Flinn of Naperville, Ill., and featuring Ryan Hitchon, junior from Jackson, Tenn.; Jackie Johnson, sophomore from Eden Prairie, Minn., and Parker Reynolds.
- A dance performance featuring seniors Amber Swenson of Brooklyn Park, Minn., Jenny Dowker of Niantic, Conn., and Lauren Bene of Fremont, Calif.; and juniors Sarah Gerencher of Joliet, Ill., Maureen Cook of Richland Center, Wis., and Stephanie Pisarik of Mount Vernon.
