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Duke City Repertory Theatre is constantly striving to achieve its four main goals:
- Serve the audiences of the city of Albuquerque, the state of New Mexico and the region of the Southwest as a whole.
- Provide an opportunity for theatre professionals to earn their living in the arts.
- Become the premier regional theatre in the Southwest
- Cultivate not only today’s audiences but the audiences of tomorrow by supplying intelligent, inspiring and thought provoking theatre for young and mature audiences alike.
While we have humble beginnings, it is our aim to become the state theatre of New Mexico by following our main mission: TO SERVE THE AUDIENCE. This means you will always get your money’s worth. Our patrons and supporters are the very reason we exist. Your satisfaction is our highest priority.
In our mission to provide top notch, bold theatre to our audiences, it is important to DCRT to hire professional actors, directors, designers and technicians, either locally or from other areas of the country. Through providing work for these artists we will have the capability to offer less experienced individuals the opportunity to work with and learn from seasoned professionals.
In working towards offering a place where artists can earn their living working in their craft and serving the audiences of today, Duke City Repertory Theatre will be able to cultivate future audiences, ensuring that the work of DCRT will last well into the future. We aspire to take smart, accessible, compelling theatre to the far corners of this state and region to provide audiences with an experience that they may not otherwise have the chance to partake in.
We at DCRT believe wholeheartedly that we can create a beautiful and mutually beneficial relationship with the people of the city of Albuquerque and of the state of New Mexico. We look forward to contributing to and helping to maintain New Mexico’s long standing reputation as a place that artists of all walks of life can call “Home”. |
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Frank Green is Duke City Repertory Theatre’s Associate Artistic Director and a member of the resident acting company. Originally from Washington, DC, Frank received his B.A. in Theatre Arts from West Virginia Wesleyan College. While at WVWC, Frank had the opportunity to play such roles as Wilson in Harvey, Sam in Master Harold and the Boys, Norris Honeywell in It Could Be Any One of Us, Juan in Short Eyes, and Stefano in The Tempest. Upon graduation, Frank began work with the Key Players (Catawba, NC) traveling to schools in North Carolina performing plays focusing on social etiquette for grades Pre-K through high school. Next, Frank was employed for two consecutive contracts with the Barter Players at the Barter Theatre in Abingdon, VA performing theatre for young audiences. As a Barter Player, Frank experienced incredible growth as an actor playing roles such as King Henry in Henry V, Matthew Cuthbert in Anne of Green Gables, Fenris Ulf in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe and Bagheera in The Jungle Book. Subsequently, Frank was invited to join the Barter Theatre Resident Acting Company where he spent four years playing such roles as Caliban in The Tempest, Dunois in Saint Joan, Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet, Quasimodo in The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Electra in Gypsy, Sgt. Stenning in Murderer and Jerry in Betrayal. Frank is dedicated and looking forward to serving a whole new set of audiences in New Mexico. |
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Amelia Ampuero is Duke City Repertory Theatre’s Co-Founder, Artistic Director and a member of the resident acting company. An Albuquerque native, Amelia is delighted to be back in New Mexico bringing theatre to the wonderful audiences of this area. In addition to receiving her BFA in Acting from Texas State University, Amelia has also studied with the Royal Shakespeare Company in England and Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, MA. Amelia has had the privilege of working with the incredible artists at the Barter Theatre in Abingdon, VA, first as a Barter Player, performing theatre for young audiences all over the southeast and next as a resident company member. Favorite roles at Barter include Juliet in Romeo and Juliet, Sadako in A Thousand Cranes, Anne Shirley in Green Gables: The Musical, and Oberon in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Here in Albuquerque, Amelia has been seen performing on the stages of The National Hispanic Cultural Center (A Light in My Soul), The Cell Theatre (Somewhere Between the Sky and the Sea), Albuquerque Little Theatre (What the Butler Saw), Auxiliary Dog Theatre (The Mistakes Madeline Made, Proof), and VSA N4th (A Hole in the Wall). Amelia truly looks forward to serving the incredible audiences in this great city and state. |
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Kristi Wiley is a Co-Founder and Managing Director of Duke City Repertory Theatre. Kristi recently graduated from the University of Alabama/Alabama Shakespeare Festival with an M.F.A. in Theatre Management. Before receiving her graduate degree, she taught theatre in a school for at-risk youth and worked in New York as a talent manager for Creative Talent. Kristi graduated from Texas State University with a B.F.A. in Acting. Other notable theatre moments in Kristi’s career include studying with the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-Upon-Avon, serving as Associate Producer of The Seven Ages Theatre Company’s production of Trust by Steven Dietz, and spending a summer in Ohio with Trumpet in the Land, a professional summer stock theatre. Favorite roles include: Soul Girl in Jesus Christ Superstar, Olive in The Odd Couple: Female Version , Psychiatrist in Women and Wallace and Sister Lee in Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up? A native of Fort Worth, Texas, and transient for years, Kristi is ecstatic to finally call the Southwest and Albuquerque home.
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Duke City Repertory Theatre exists to serve the audience. We believe that theatre is a mutual experience between audience and actors. It is not merely witnessing or performing, but something shared and profound. DCRT is accountable to our patrons in providing top-notch, bold theatre that inspires and transforms. It is our aim to make this art accessible and compelling to not only the theatre community, but the entire community at large. Our theatre resides not in bricks and mortar, but in that which can be shared between human beings immersed in a created world. |
Duke City Rep is coming to Albuquerque!
If you’re here, it means you’ve heard the buzz around town. Duke City Repertory Theatre is coming Fall 2010.
Who is DCRT? We’re a collection of theatre artists with a desire to serve our community by producing live, immediate theatre that boldly inspires and transforms.
It is our hope that in bringing the highest quality theatre to this city and state, we will inspire people from all over this region and country to come to New Mexico for the theatre and stay for the art, the history, the food, the landscape and the culture. So come on in, take a look around and find out how to get involved!
PRESS
“If nothing else impresses you about the people behind the city’s latest entry into a crowded live theatre scene, it’s that they’ve got spunk. And professionalism. And guts.” Read more...
-Kelly Koepke, AlbuquerqueARTS
“DCRT is aiming high…And there’s also room for a theatre that is setting its sights on some day becoming NM’s regional theatre company. A lofty goal, to be sure, but the enthusiasm and dedication this company has demonstrated in this earliest stage of its development tells me that they have one hell of a good shot.” Read more…
-Mark Dunn, Local iQ
“If all Albuquerque’s a stage, and all Burqueños merely players, then the folks behind Duke City Repertory Theatre are those talented understudies waiting giddily in the wings for their big shot at the spotlight.” Read more…
-Khyber Oser, Weekly Alibi
“The city’s newest professional repertory theatre company will make its debut…” Read more…
-Aurelio Sanchez, Albuquerque Journal
Trust Reviews
“With their inaugural production, Duke City Repertory Theatre invites its audiences to "trust" them to deliver quality work and, based on the work on display in Trust, Albuquerque theatergoers are well advised to do so.” Read more…
Brian Eugenio Herrera, Talkin’ Broadway
“The chemistry among the cast members is apparent…” Read more…
-Barry Gaines, Albuquerque Journal
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