Katie is the Film, Theatre, and Creative Writing Admin here at UCA. Katie Little-Aschbrenner (Administrative Assistant) This is Austin’s first year as Production Manager for Arkansas Shakes and he is so excited for Much Ado About Nothing!

His design credits include work at the University of Arkansas, CYT Dallas, Arts Center of the Ozarks, Opera of the Ozarks, Shine Performing Arts, and New Venture Theatre in Baton Rouge Louisiana. He has worked at various Theatres and Opera Houses from New Mexico to Italy. in Theatre with concentrations in both performance/directing and technical theatre in 2016 from Northwestern State University of Louisiana. in Scenic Design from the University of Arkansas in 2020. Ensemble / Claudio U.S.: Dalton CarrollĪdministrative Assistant: Katie Little-AschbrennerĪustin Aschbrenner (Production Manager/Technical Director UCA)Īustin recently earned his M.F.A. Technical Director (UofA): Weston Wilkerson Shake The Lake Volume 1 of a 4 part realistic comic book series.Production Manager/Technical Director (UCA): Austin Aschbrenner It’s Lords of Dogtown on the water with a bit of American Pie meets Wet Hot American Summer.

You won't find any super heroes in Shake The Lake, instead it's set in real life with a relatable action sports story about restless youth and endless summers. This comic series follows a crew of best friend wakeboarders as they navigate societal pressures, parties, love and life. They soon realize that it's not all sunshine and rainbows on the road to paradise. Reluctantly, Joe agrees and the group find themselves on the move in search of the endless summer.

Rather than move back home and work all season under the judging eye of his parents, Cal convinces his best friend Joe to pay for the group to road trip to Lake Victoria, Arizona where a childhood crush “Nika” can hook them up with jobs at her family’s Marina. The party spirals out of control and the next day, Callun is kicked out of his rental which jeopardizes the epic summer he and his friends had planned. Accused of having no direction, Cal’s girlfriend dumps him. Callun and his best friends kick off summer with some kilt wakeboarding (no undies) and host a raucous house party at their lake house. A group of outsiders flip an Arizona lake town on its head attempting to rescue a bullied marina from snobby, yacht club encroachment by staging a mammoth, end-of-season, pro wakeboarding festival against the wishes of the town’s hardnosed park rangers.

Shake The Lake Volume #1 by Zach Block