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Listening: Acting as Crafting the Visual and Listening with Intention — DRA4128.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Gian-Murray Gianino
Credits: 4
This class gives theater artists the time and space to further develop their understanding of listening as a fundamental tenet of acting and necessary tool. Through exercises and prepared studies of scenes, students will explore listening as defined as absorbing and responding to the truth, moment by moment. Stanislavski's Active Analysis and its relationship to the Viewpoints
Drama

Live Sound Technology — MSR2124.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Curt Wells
Credits: 2
This will be a hands-on, bare-bones, system-focused class on audio electronics. We will explore the smallest inputs to the largest outputs that are used in artistic performance. The class will focus on the technical applications of microphones, mixers, speakers and software for live productions such as plays, concerts, Dance performances and installations. Students will use
Dance Drama Music

Mad Props: Theatrical Property Design and Construction — DRA2312.01

Fall 2025
Instructor: Seancolin Hankins
Days & Time: FR 2:10pm-4:00pm
Credits: 2

An exercise in planning, communication, creativity and resourcefulness, property design applies to film, television, and theatrical production. This course will look at theatrical props and set dressing from a property designer’s perspective. Starting with a script, we will uncover the questions you didn’t know needed answering in order to comprehensively produce or curate

Drama

Mad Props: Theatrical Property Design and Production — DRA2312.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Seancolin Hankins
Credits: 2
An exercise in planning, communication, creativity and resourcefulness, property design applies to film, television, and theatrical production. This course will look at theatrical props and set dressing from a property designer’s perspective. Starting with a script, we will uncover the questions you didn’t know needed answering in order to comprehensively produce or curate
Drama

Mad Props: Theatrical Property Design and Production — DRA2312.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Michael Giannitti
Credits: 2
An exercise in planning, communication, creativity and resourcefulness, property design applies to film, television, and theatrical production. This course will look at theatrical props and set dressing from a property designer’s perspective. Starting with a script, we will uncover the questions you didn’t know needed answering in order to comprehensively produce or curate
Drama

Mad Props: Theatrical Property Design and Production — DRA2312.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Seancolin Hankins
Credits: 2
An exercise in planning, communication, creativity and resourcefulness, property design applies to film, television, and theatrical production. This course will look at theatrical props and set dressing from a property designer’s perspective. Starting with a script, we will uncover the questions you didn’t know needed answering in order to comprehensively produce or curate
Drama

Making Technical Theatre with Advanced Design Collaboration — DRA2383.02

Spring 2025
Instructor: Tilly Grimes
Credits: 2
Working in conjunction with Advanced Design and Collaboration, students will be invited to join the process of bringing the shows to life. When theater starts with a script, visuals tend to follow the narrative. But what happens when bold visuals lead the way? Students will explore each discipline of technical theatre and participate in collaborating to create each of the
Drama

Making Yesterday New — DRA4189.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Charles Schoonmaker; Richard MacPike
Credits: 4
Ever had an interest in vintage clothing? Have you ever contemplated the fashion trends of decades past? Ever see a vintage dress that you thought you'd love to reproduce? In this course students will explore and research the fashions of 3 iconic decades; the 1920's, 1930's and 1940's. Students will then design a dress which fits into the silhouette of the period and construct
Drama

Manipulating the Projected Image — Canceled

Spring 2014
Instructor: Joshua Higgason
Credits: 2
***This course has been combined with Motion Capture: Interactivity (DRA4208.01).*** This workshop for faculty and students is concerned with investigating the interaction of projected manipulated imagery with performers, motion, and space using Pandoras Box and Widget Designer. Investigation will center on how projections alter the reality of what they are projected on
Dance Drama Visual Arts

Masks — DRA4331.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Janis Young
Credits: 4
Masks' is dedicated to the opening up of physical and vocal expression. To further that goal, this advanced performance class works with several groups of masks. In general masks can be used to hide and reveal, to disguise and transform, to attract, arouse and fire the imagination. Beginning with Jacques Lecoq's neutral mask exercises involving economy of effort and Mexican
Dance Drama

Masks — DRA4135.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Janis Young
Credits: 4
Masks is dedicated to the opening of individual and group physical and vocal expression. To further that goal, this performance class works with several groups of masks. Beginning with Jacques Lecoq's neutral mask exercises involving physical economy of effort, Mexican mask improvisations and group exercises, the work extends to vocal development and verse expression. Using
Drama

Meisner Technique — DRA4268.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Jennifer Rohn
Credits: 4
“If you are really doing it, you don’t have time to watch yourself doing it.” Sanford Meisner was an actor and founding member of the Group Theater. He went on to become a master teacher of acting who sought to give students an organized approach to the creation of truthful behavior on stage within the imaginary circumstances of a play. This class focuses on developing an actor
Drama

Meisner Technique — DRA4268.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Jennifer Rohn
Credits: 4
“If you are really doing it, you don’t have time to watch yourself doing it.” Sanford Meisner was an actor and founding member of the Group Theater. He went on to become a master teacher of acting who sought to give students an organized approach to the creation of truthful behavior on stage within the imaginary circumstances of a play. This class focuses on developing an actor
Drama

Meisner Technique — DRA4268.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Jennifer Rohn
Credits: 4
“If you are really doing it, you don’t have time to watch yourself doing it.” Sanford Meisner was an actor and founding member of the Group Theater. He went on to become a master teacher of acting who sought to give students an organized approach to the creation of truthful behavior on stage within the imaginary circumstances of a play. This class focuses on developing an actor
Drama

Meisner Technique — DRA4268.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Jennifer Rohn
Credits: 4
“If you are really doing it, you don’t have time to watch yourself doing it.” Sanford Meisner was an actor and founding member of the Group Theater. He went on to become a master teacher of acting who sought to give students an organized approach to the creation of truthful behavior on stage within the imaginary circumstances of a play. This class focuses on developing an actor
Drama

Meisner Technique — DRA4268.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Jenny Rohn
Credits: 4
"If you are really doing it, you don't have time to watch yourself doing it." Sanford Meisner was an actor and founding member of the Group Theater. He went on to become a Master Teacher of Acting who sought to give students an organized approach to the creation of truthful behavior on stage within the imaginary circumstances of a play. The class focuses on developing an actor
Drama

Meisner Technique — DRA4268.01

Spring 2026
Instructor: Jennifer Rohn
Days & Time: MO,TH 1:40pm-3:30pm
Credits: 4

“If you are really doing it, you don’t have time to watch yourself doing it.” Sanford Meisner was an actor and founding member of the Group Theater. He went on to become a master teacher of acting who sought to give students an organized approach to the creation of truthful behavior on stage within the imaginary circumstances of a play. This class focuses on

Drama

Meisner Technique — DRA4268.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Jennifer Rohn
Credits: 4
“If you are really doing it, you don’t have time to watch yourself doing it.” Sanford Meisner was an actor and founding member of the Group Theater. He went on to become a master teacher of acting who sought to give students an organized approach to the creation of truthful behavior on stage within the imaginary circumstances of a play. This class focuses on developing an actor
Drama

Meisner Technique — DRA4268.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Jenny Rohn
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
“If you are really doing it, you don’t have time to watch yourself doing it.” Sanford Meisner was an actor and founding member of the Group Theater. He went on to become a master teacher of acting who sought to give students an organized approach to the creation of truthful behavior on stage within the imaginary circumstances of a play. This class focuses on developing an actor
Drama

Meisner Technique — DRA4268.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Jennifer Rohn
Credits: 4
“If you are really doing it, you don’t have time to watch yourself doing it.” Sanford Meisner was an actor and founding member of the Group Theater. He went on to become a master teacher of acting who sought to give students an organized approach to the creation of truthful behavior on stage within the imaginary circumstances of a play. This class focuses on developing an actor
Drama

Meisner Technique II — DRA4269.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Jennifer Rohn
Credits: 4
This course will advance the work of Meisner I into the exploration of text and scene work. We will discover how to transform words on the page into vital improvisation by continually giving up our ideas of how we think a scene should be acted and trusting in what is actually happening between the actors on stage, in the moment. We will embark on a process of character
Drama

Merely Players: Shakespeare’s Women, Shakespeare’s Men — DRA2164.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Jean Randich
Credits: 4
A revival of an old tradition in the playing of Shakespeare has been rocking stages around the world: cross-gender casting. Shakespeare’s plays were originally performed by men and boys. But when the Globe Theater’s all male double bill of Twelfth Night and Richard III hit Broadway in 2013, theatergoers screamed with delight. Similarly, when Phyllida Lloyd and Harriet Walter
Drama

Metamorphoses: Borders and Beyond — Devising Multicultural Theater — DRA2165.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Jean Randich
Credits: 4
This course on devised theater is aimed at students who have experienced living in more than one culture and are interested in creating a multilingual theater piece inspired by their own experiences of crossing cultures, sensing boundaries, and the role of transformation. We will read selections from contemporary writers, such as Marjane Satrapi, Gloria Anzaldua, and Kapka
Drama

Migration and Migrants in Theatre, Film, and Documentaries — DRA2175.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Burcu Seyben
Credits: 4
Migration and migrants have been explored extensively in theatre, film and documentaries. The Immigrants’ Theatre Project by NYC-ARTS in New York, Royal Court Theatre in London, and Gorki Theatre in Berlin are some of the theatre companies that especially help immigrant playwrights to develop works about the experience of migration. Ariane Mnouchkine, Robert Lepage and Rimini
CAPA Drama