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How Water Behaves — DRA4216.01

Instructor: Dina Janis
Credits: 4
This class will be a Production Performance class designed to develop, explore and present this new work by playwright Sherry Kramer. It will be audition based and will have room for various ensemble members in addition to assistant directors, dramaturgs, and designers.

Imaginary Worlds — DRA2313.01

Instructor: Michael Giannitti
Credits: 4
In this course we will consider playwrights who have created imaginary worlds as a means of escaping from, critiquing, or simply distorting the real world. In doing so, we will consider how imaginary worlds might open up new spaces and possibilities for our own world, as well as how they reflect a playwright’s unique vision and philosophy. We will consider the inherent

Imagining America — DRA2390.01

Instructor: Abe Koogler
Days & Time: FR 10:30am-12:20pm
Credits: 2

Our country is changing rapidly—can a play help us make sense of where we are (gulp), and where we’re headed? In this course, we will read ambitious, formally inventive plays written within the last fifty years that attempt to capture some fundamental truth about the United States: its violence and despair as well its beauty and possibility. Readings will likely include Tony

Intermediate Playwriting: The Scene and Structure — DRA4140.01

Instructor: john walch
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
The scene is to the playwright as the chapter is to the novelist; it is the primary building block of the play. Working playwrights craft their plays by putting one scene in front of (or behind, or on top of) another. This course invites intermediate and advanced playwrights to enter their plays through scene work and will challenge writers to write in a number of different

Intro to Animation — MA2106.01) (cancelled

Instructor: Sue Rees
Credits: 4
This is the classic course in the basics of traditional animation principles. Histories, technologies, and techniques will be explored through weekly exercises, culminating in the creation of a short animated film. This course will be drawing intensive, but also will include explorations of pixelation/stop-motion, digital formats, and some 3D strategies all designed to give a

Intro to Scene Painting — DRA2168.01

Instructor: Seancolin Hankins
Credits: 2
This course will introduce students to the fundamentals of scenic art, including techniques, terminology, and commonly used tools. Students will learn to create processes that will guide them from a rendering or scenic finish to a completed project. Skills we will develop include color mixing, surface preparation for soft goods and hard scenery, translating small renderings to

Intro to Scene Painting — DRA2168.01

Instructor: Seancolin Hankins
Credits: 2
This class will introduce students to the fundamentals of scenic art, including terminology, and commonly used tools and techniques. Students will learn to create processes that will guide them from a rendering or scenic finish to a completed project. Skills we will develop include color mixing, surface preparation for soft goods and hard scenery, translating small renderings

Intro to Scene Painting — DRA2168.01

Instructor: Seancolin Hankins
Credits: 2
This class will introduce students to the fundamentals of scenic art, including terminology, and commonly used tools and techniques. Students will learn to create processes that will guide them from a rendering or scenic finish to a completed project. Skills we will develop include color mixing, surface preparation for soft goods and hard scenery, translating small renderings

Intro to Scene Painting — DRA2168.01

Instructor: Seancolin Hankins
Days & Time: FR 2:10pm-5:50pm
Credits: 2

This class will introduce students to the fundamentals of scenic art, including terminology, and commonly used tools and techniques. Students will learn to create processes that will guide them from a rendering or scenic finish to a completed project. Skills we will develop include color mixing, surface preparation for soft goods and hard scenery, translating small

Intro to Sketch Comedy 1 — DRA4277.01

Instructor: Shawtane Bowen
Credits: 2
This course is designed to teach you the basics of comedy writing, specifically using "the game of the scene" to create short comedic sketches. Each week students will be asked to write a 3–4 page sketch that will be read aloud in class and receive constructive criticism and suggestions (variations, alternate beats, alternate lines, etc.) from myself and your peers. You will

Introduction to Alexander Technique — MPF2206.01

Instructor: Kerry Ryer-Parke
Days & Time: WE 10:00am-11:50am
Credits: 2

This class uses the lens of the Alexander Technique to teach principles of mindfulness and awareness in action. The Alexander Technique is a method for cultivating awareness and creating the conditions for change to emerge in our movement patterns, thought processes, and sensory experiences. Using these principles one can discover movement possibilities that are supportive

Introduction to Butoh—Who are you? — DAN2278.01) (cancelled 11/14/2022

Instructor: Mina Nishimura
Credits: 2
No previous experience in dance or movement practice is required. This course is open to and welcomes all students who are interested in liberating their bodies from socially pre-conditioned selves, and investigating the physical embodiment of transformation. By studying some principles, cultural contexts and practices of butoh, which originated in Japan as a contemporary avant

Introduction to Dramaturgy — DRA4281.01

Instructor: Maya Cantu
Credits: 4
The dramaturg serves as a powerful medium in the theatre. She bridges the past and the present, the creative team and the audience, while providing critical generosity and historical and literary insight. In this course, we will learn about the history and practice of dramaturgy, while learning how the critical and research skills of the dramaturg can apply to a wide array of

Introduction to Dramaturgy — DRA4281.01

Instructor: Maya Cantu
Credits: 4
The dramaturg serves as a powerful medium in the theatre. They bridge the past and the present, the creative team and the audience, while providing critical generosity and historical and literary insight. In this course, we will learn about the history and practice of dramaturgy, while learning how the critical and research skills of the dramaturg can apply to a wide array of

Introduction to Dramaturgy — DRA4281.01

Instructor: Maya Cantu
Credits: 4
The dramaturg serves as a powerful medium in the theatre. They bridge the past and the present, the creative team and the audience, while providing critical generosity and historical and literary insight. In this course, we will learn about the history and practice of dramaturgy, while learning how the critical and research skills of the dramaturg can apply to a wide array of

Introduction to Dramaturgy — DRA4281.01

Instructor: Maya Cantu
Credits: 4
The dramaturg serves as a powerful medium in the theatre. She bridges the past and the present, the creative team and the audience, while providing critical generosity and historical and literary insight. In this course, we will learn about the history and practice of dramaturgy, while learning how the critical and research skills of the dramaturg can apply to a wide array of

Introduction to Dramaturgy — DRA4281.01

Instructor: Maya Cantu
Days & Time: TU 8:30am-12:10pm
Credits: 4

The dramaturg serves as a powerful medium in the theatre. They bridge the past and the present, the creative team and the audience, while providing critical generosity and historical and literary insight. In this course, we will learn about the history and practice of dramaturgy, while learning how the critical and research skills of the dramaturg can apply to a wide array

Introduction to Dramaturgy — DRA4281.01

Instructor: Maya Cantu
Days & Time: WE 8:30am-12:10pm
Credits: 4

The dramaturg serves as a powerful medium in the theatre. They bridge the past and the present, the creative team and the audience, while providing critical generosity and historical and literary insight. In this course, we will learn about the history and practice of dramaturgy, while learning how the critical and research skills of the dramaturg can apply to a wide array

Introduction to Dramaturgy — DRA4281.01

Instructor: Jean Randich
Credits: 4
The dramaturg serves as a powerful medium in the theatre. She bridges the past and the present, the creative team and the audience, while providing critical generosity and historical and literary insight. In this course, we will learn about the history and practice of dramaturgy, while learning how the critical and research skills of the dramaturg can apply to a wide array of

Introduction to Dramaturgy — DRA4281.01

Instructor: Maya Cantu
Credits: 4
The dramaturg serves as a powerful medium in the theatre. She bridges the past and the present, the creative team and the audience, while providing critical generosity and historical and literary insight. In this course, we will learn about the history and practice of dramaturgy, while learning how the critical and research skills of the dramaturg can apply to a wide array of

Introduction to Dramaturgy — DRA4281.01

Instructor: Maya Cantu
Credits: 4
The dramaturg serves as a powerful medium in the theatre. They bridge the past and the present, the creative team and the audience, while providing critical generosity and historical and literary insight. In this course, we will learn about the history and practice of dramaturgy, while learning how the critical and research skills of the dramaturg can apply to a wide array of

Introduction to Vectorworks — DRA2309.02

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 2
Drafting is the most essential piece of communication for theatrical production, so organization and clarity are essential. This course will introduce students to digital drafting in Vectorworks, including proper document organization, efficient drafting plate layout, and production of printable materials. We will also discuss determining scale from photographs, perspective

Jerzy Grotowski — DRA2304.01

Instructor: Jenny Rohn
Credits: 4
"No one else in the world, to my knowledge, no one since Stanislavski, has investigated the nature of acting, its phenomenon, its meaning, the nature and science of its mental, physical, emotional process as deeply and completely as Grotowski." - Peter Brook In this class we will explore, through readings and on our feet, the teachings and training techniques that Grotowski

Kurdish Cinema: Images from a Longtime Stateless Nation — DRA2149.01

Instructor: Burcu Seyben
Credits: 4
Kurds live in many different countries in the Middle East and Asia, but until recently they were forced to live without a self-governing region. Nevertheless, Kurdish cinema has flourished, especially since the turn of the 21stcentury. Both feature films and documentaries proliferate throughout the region. This course will look closely at contemporary Kurdish films and

Later is Too Late: Dance Design & Production — DAN2425.01

Instructor: Davison Scandrett
Days & Time: WE 2:10pm-4:00pm
Credits: 2

Borrowed from the subtitle of Lois Ellfeldt & Edwin Carne's seminal 1971 Dance Production Handbook, "Later is Too Late" became a mantra for the course instructor after finding a well-worn copy of the paperback in his roadbox for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company.  In this course we will examine the specific technical challenges and design