Colin McIntire, the son of Mr. and Mrs. John C. McIntire of Darien, Conn., played the role of Drosselmeier in "Marie and the Nutcracker," the fall 2015 mainstage theater performance at Bates College.
The play was written and directed by Martin Andrucki, the college's Charles A. Dana Professor of Theater, who put a modern twist on German writer E.T.A. Hoffmann's original story "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King."
McIntire is a 2012 graduate of St. Luke's School. He is majoring in biology at Bates.
The production, which ran from Nov. 5-9 at Schaeffer Theatre at Bates, gave students a firsthand glimpse into the playwriting process. "They learned something about how a play evolves during production, and how a playwright changes or revises the script in order to make it work on stage," Andrucki said. "And how important it is to have a sense of stagecraft as part of your equipment as a writer."