The DC area's oldest youth-run theatre company

Wildwood Summer Theatre was founded in 1965 by a group of students from Walter Johnson High School in Bethesda, Maryland. These theatrically minded students wanted to extend their high school musical experience into the summer. However, they were unable to find an adult sponsor, so they decided to strike out on their own. That summer, on a shoestring budget, and with little in the way of material supplies or support, they put on a production of Bye, Bye Birdie. The show was a rousing success, and WST was born. For the last 51 years, WST has presented at least one, and occasionally two musical productions, with the entire company aged 14 to 25.

Year

1965

1966

1967

1968

1969

1970

1971

1972

1973

1974

1975

1976

1977

1978

1979

1980

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1982

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2009

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2011

2012

2013

2014

2015

2016

2017

2018

2019

2020

2021

2022

2023

Show

Bye Bye Birdie

Damn Yankees

The Fantasticks

Once Upon a Mattress

A Funny Thing...

Guys and Dolls

The Threepenny Opera

Fiorello

Carnival

Oklahoma!

Brigadoon

The Music Man

Hello, Dolly!

Carousel

West Side Story

Anyone Can Whistle

Kiss Me, Kate

The Pajama Game

Anything Goes

Kismet

Applause

Fiddler on the Roof

Pippin

Grease

Merrily We Roll Along

Working

Wonderful Town

Godspell

Charlie Brown

Little Shop of Horrors

A Chorus Line

The Mystery of Edwin...

She Loves Me

The Baker's Wife

City of Angels

How To Succeed...

Guys and Dolls

Sugar

Singin' in the Rain

West Side Story

Chicago

Sweeney Todd

Grand Hotel

Cabaret

Thoroughly Modern-Millie

Parade

The Pajama Game

Merrily We Roll Along

City of Angels

A Funny Thing...

A Chorus Line

Into the Woods

RENT

Grease

Nine

Seussical

Spring Awakening

Heathers

Little Women

Side Show

The 25th Annual…

n/a

Charlie Brown

The Theory of Relativity

The Lightning Thief

Head Over Heels

Producer

Jonathan H., David H., James P.*

Frank Burroughs

Richard Bigelow

Frank Burroughs

Cynthia Kurz & Roger Lydon

Christopher Watson

Brian Auslander

Thomas Murphy

Karen Hazlett

Jonathan Nehmer

Stan Corfman

William D. Casson

Mark E. Taylor

Jeffrey M. Knetsch

Thomas R. McDonald

Martin F. Packer

James P. Knowles

John M. Hines

Veronica J. Mariani

Raymond H. Cahill

Timothy S. Emerson

Christopher W. Murphy

Dan Schultheisz

Neil McFadden

Gerald Hodgkins

Michael B. Klein

Timothy S. Emerson

Laurel Portnoy

Loren Sklar

Blake Reid

Quinn T. McCord

David Morenoff

Joshua Feldman

Quinn T. McCord

Quinn T. McCord/ Seth J. Meyers

Isabel Hernandez-Cata

Lauren Beth DeRocco

Kelly Theim

Denise Levitan

Harrison Long

Alice Hawfield

Ian Stuart

Jeanie McAlpine

Mattia D'Affuso

Christopher Walkup

Liz Bragale

Meredith Beisel

Gabriela Schulman

n/a

Mercedes Blankenship

Katie Peacock

Siena Maxwell

Director

Jonathan Hadary

David S. Harper

Jonathan Hadary

Paul Edwards

Paul E. & Janice M.*

Joe Douglass

Mary Saloschin

Jeff Moreland

Amelia Esten

John Corcoran

Donald F. Campbell

Lawrence Redmond

David Ness

Porter Koontz

Barbara Betzler-Purcell

Michael Lindsay

Brian Davis

Bruce Dworkin

Stan Eisenstein

Joseph B. Musumeci, Jr.

Bruce Dworkin

Michael G. Sirilla

Timothy S. Emerson

Grant S. Goldstein

Charles McNamara

Joshua Feldman

Suzanne M. Phillips

Dan Rinzel

Michael B. Klein

Dan Morenoff

Joshua Feldman

Marsha Harman

Jennifer Cravey

Jared Stern

Michael Hadary

Nathan Claridad

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

Jared Goldstein

Erica Chiusano

Kristina Friedgen

Sean Finan

Kristina Friedgen

Pam Freedy

Megan Behm

Devin Goodman

Mason Catharini

Jake Young

Rocky Nunzio

Jake Young

Itai Yasur

Rocky Nunzio

Gavin Kramar

Zachary Harris

Abigail Olshin

n/a

Dillon Mitcham

Becca Haven

Mercedes Blankenship

Ileana Blustein

Notes:

1965: In Wildwood's inaugural season, the lines somewhat were blurred between who was a producer versus who was simply a founding member. Jonathan Hadary was credited as the Executive Producer in the 1965 playbill, and Davis S. Harper and James R. Pepper have both also been credited as producers by some accounts.
1970: This season is the only year where there were two co-directors: Paul Edwards and Janice Morrison
2020: Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, WST was dark this summer. However, the intent was for Wildwood to produce Urinetown, directed by Becca Haven and produced by Mercedes Blankenship.