Docudrama cast list
10/09/2024
Performance explores community reponse after Sandy Hook shooting
Bluffton University Theatre has announced the cast list for the fall play “26 Pebbles”
by Eric Ulloa.
“26 Pebbles” is a heartbreaking and riveting docudrama about the community’s response
to the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Playwright Eric Ulloa conducted
interviews with residents of Newtown, Conn., crafting an exploration of gun violence
and a small town shaken by a horrific event.
Cast members include students, faculty and alumni and most actors play multiple parts.
- Andrea Burden: senior food & nutrition major, Quincy, Ohio
- Jasmine DeJesus: sophomore criminal justice and writing double major, Norwalk, Ohio
- Malcolm Hudson: first-year undecided major, Atlanta, Ga.
- Deborah Yoder: ’23 Bluffton graduate, Bluffton, Ohio
- Jenna Loescher: sophomore social work and psychology double major, Wapakoneta, Ohio
- Russell Lough: senior sport management major, Steubenville, Ohio
- Colby Schlabach: senior math and economics majors, Sugarcreek, Ohio
- Paul Neufeld Weaver: professor of education and Spanish, director of global education
The production is directed by Dr. Melissa Friesen, professor of yheatre and communication.
Merv Schrock is the technical director, and Brit Mustard is the costume designer.
Student theatre assistants Zael Coblentz, Chloe Haberman, Isabel Miller and Aubrie
Sell lead the production team.
Performances will be at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 14-16 and 2:30 p.m. on Nov. 17 in Ramseyer
Auditorium, College Hall.
All seats are reserved, and tickets are available at www.bluffton.edu/tickets. Tickets are $8 for adults; $6 for senior citizens, Bluffton University faculty and
staff and non-Bluffton University students; and free for Bluffton University students.