RSP

RACT - Ripon Area Community Theatre

From the Top

Act One

DSCF0002 Founded in 1996 as the Ripon Summer Players, under the dedicated direction of Ken Hill, our community theatre began as a collaboration between the Ripon Noon Kiwanis club and the Ripon College Theatre department; and has grown into much more. Over the last 25 years we have entertained thousands of audience members, featuring performers as old as 7, and as young as 90.

Over the culmulative history of the Ripon Summer Players, hundreds of actors, ranging in age 7-90+ have performed for thousands of audience members. RSP productions run the gammut of performing Shakespeare, comedies and mysteries.

Ripon College theatre professor, Ken Hill, and his wife, fellow Ripon College professor, Susan Hill, helped found the Ripon Summer Players; with Ken directing the first 21 productions, and Susan co-producing the shows with Ken and serving as costume designer. Ken and Susan stepped down as the primary directors for the Summer Players in 2018.

RSP alumni have been coordinating efforts to continue Summer Player productions, with full support of the Hills; and continuing the partnerships with the Ripon College and Ripon Noon Kiwanis.

Peformances are usually held the first weekend after Memorial Day, in the Ripon College Benstead Theatre, in the Rodman Center for the Performing Arts.