Cinnamon Summer Series is a summer theatre collective founded in 2019 by University of Connecticut drama students.

 

A riff on the Connecticut Repertory Theatre’s summer production wing the “Nutmeg Summer Series,” the Cinnamon Summer Series was originally an independent theatre collective for multidisciplinary artists looking to create theatre in Storrs over the summer. The CSS strives to create a collaborative space that put to practice critical skills of theatremaking towards challenging and rewarding theatre. The inaugural season included Circle Mirror Transformation, directed by Eddie Vitcavage, and Much Ado about Nothing, directed by Matthew Antoci.

 

For 2020, CSS took it online, expanding our ensemble beyond Storrs and students. This year, the The Fires We Don't See was spearheaded by April Lichtman, GraceAnn Brooks and Matthew Antoci. This year, we were an ensemble of twenty actor-creators, artists, and thinkers.