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Playwriting Sprints — DRA2391.01

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

If you want to learn playwriting, you should write a lot, write quickly, and write inspired by great plays. Think of this class as your weekly playwriting workout. 

Each week, students will be assigned 1-2 contemporary plays to read, drawing from work recently seen or soon-to-be-seen Off-Broadway and Off-Off-Broadway. We will spend the first

Playwriting Workshop: Politics and Poetry — DRA4113.01

Instructor: Jackie Sibblies Drury
Credits: 4
For our workshop, I’d like us to think about plays as being a combination of things. Of poetry and plot, in form (or structure). Of the personal and the political, in content. I’d so appreciate us thinking about this together because I’ve been thinking about this alone for quite some time. As I’ve thought about it, I haven’t been considering “poetry” and “prose” and “personal”

Playwriting Workshop: Sense Memory — DRA2140.01

Instructor: Jackie Sibblies Drury
Credits: 4
In this course, we will explore methods for using our senses both to inspire our writing and to create plays that engage an audience's faculties and imagination. Through writing exercises tailored to creating text that is meant to be spoken and lived in, participants will create writing that is inspired by images, objects, music, and food that they share with the class. In this

Poetry Performance — LIT2533.01

Instructor: Franny Choi
Credits: 4
Though poetry was an oral art form before it was anything else, its contemporary relationship to performance is varied and complex. What does it mean to write a poem that comes alive in the air? What happens to poems when they become embodied? And how have questions of race, class, gender, and sexuality historically shaped (and been shaped by) the work at the intersection of

Production and Design Projects — DRA4486.02, section 2

Instructor: Michael Giannitti
Days & Time: TU 8:30am-10:20am
Credits: 4

In this project-based class, students will undertake intermediate or advanced level work in lighting design, scenic design and/or stage management. The course is designed for those developing and implementing theatrical designs, as well as stage managers of faculty or student directed projects being produced on campus. In a studio atmosphere, students will share work in

Production and Design Projects — DRA4486.01

Instructor: Michael Giannitti
Credits: 2
This project-based class is for designers developing and implementing scenic or lighting designs, as well as stage managers of faculty or student directed projects being produced on campus. In a studio atmosphere, students will share work in process each week, from inception through realization of their respective production projects. Particular attention will be placed on

Production and Design Projects — DRA4486.02, section 2

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
This project-based class is for designers doing intermediate or advanced level work in lighting design, scenic design and/or stage management, those developing and implementing theatrical designs, as well as stage managers of faculty or student directed projects being produced on campus. In a studio atmosphere, students will share work in process each week, from inception

Production and Design Projects — DRA4486.01, section 1

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 2
This project-based class is for designers doing intermediate or advanced level work in lighting design, scenic design and/or stage management, those developing and implementing theatrical designs, as well as stage managers of faculty or student directed projects being produced on campus. In a studio atmosphere, students will share work in process each week, from inception

Production and Design Projects — DRA4486.02, section 2

Instructor: Michael Giannitti
Credits: 4
This project-based class is for designers doing intermediate or advanced level work in lighting design, scenic design and/or stage management, those developing and implementing theatrical designs, as well as stage managers of faculty or student directed projects being produced on campus. In a studio atmosphere, students will share work in process each week, from inception

Production and Design Projects — DRA4486.01, section 1

Instructor: Michael Giannitti
Credits: 2
This project-based class is for designers doing intermediate or advanced level work in lighting design, scenic design and/or stage management, those developing and implementing theatrical designs, as well as stage managers of faculty or student directed projects being produced on campus. In a studio atmosphere, students will share work in process each week, from inception

Production and Design Projects — DRA4486.02, section 2

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
This project-based class is for designers doing intermediate or advanced level work in lighting design, scenic design and/or stage management, those developing and implementing theatrical designs, as well as stage managers of faculty or student directed projects being produced on campus. In a studio atmosphere, students will share work in process each week, from inception

Production and Design Projects — DRA4486.01, section 1) (time added 12/9/2022

Instructor: Michael Giannitti
Credits: 2
This project-based class is for designers doing intermediate or advanced level work in lighting design, scenic design and/or stage management, those developing and implementing theatrical designs, as well as stage managers of faculty or student directed projects being produced on campus. In a studio atmosphere, students will share work in process each week, from inception

Production and Design Projects — DRA4486.01, section 1

Instructor: Michael Giannitti
Days & Time: TU 8:30am-10:20am
Credits: 2

In this project-based class, students will undertake intermediate or advanced level work in lighting design, scenic design and/or stage management. The course is designed for those developing and implementing theatrical designs, as well as stage managers of faculty or student directed projects being produced on campus. In a studio atmosphere, students will share work in

Projection of Images — MA4109.01

Instructor: Sue Rees
Credits: 2
This will be a condensed class concerned with projecting images, and mapping these onto a variety of forms. The content will be created in a number of programs. How this interacts with a location/space, a surface, an object, a performer, a body will be explored in the class, as well as how this brings further information to a form, and shifts the viewer's reading or

Projection _ Mapping _ Design — MA4106.01

Instructor: Sue Rees
Credits: 4
The class will be concerned with projecting images, and mapping these onto a variety of forms. The content will be created in a number of programs. How this interacts with a location/space, a surface, an object, a performer, a body will be explored in the class, as well as and how this brings further information to a form and shift the viewers reading or understanding.

Projections – Animation Projects — MA4202.01

Instructor: Sue Rees
Credits: 4
The course will be for sustained work on an animation or design project, and should be a space for both experimentation, ambition and a consistent endeavor. Students will be expected to create a complete animation, a series of experiments, projection or interactive project. The expectation is that students will be fully engaged in all aspects of the class from critiques, to

Projections – Animation Projects — MA4202.01

Instructor: Sue Rees
Credits: 4
The course will be for sustained work on an animation or projection design project, and should be a space for both experimentation, ambition and consistent endeavor. Students will be expected to create a complete animation, a series of experiments, interactive project, projection mapping etc. The expectation is that students will be fully engaged in all aspects of the class

Projection_Mapping_Design — MA4106.01

Instructor: Sue Rees
Credits: 4
The class will be concerned with projecting images, and mapping these onto a variety of forms. The content will be created in a number of programs. How this interacts with a location/space, a surface, an object, a performer, a body will be explored in the class, as well as and how this brings further information to a form and shifts the viewers reading or understanding.

Projection_Mapping_Design — MA4106.01

Instructor: Sue Rees
Credits: 2
The class will be concerned with investigating the interaction of projected imagery with an actor/performer/viewer. Investigation will center on how projections can be integrated into, and bring further information to a location, a set and or a text. Various examples will be looked at and researched. Two plays or texts will be used as a basis for two projects and for each,

projects in animation and projections — MA4314.01

Instructor: Sue Rees
Days & Time: TH 8:30am-12:10pm
Credits: 4

The course will be for sustained work on an animation or design project, and should be a space for both experimentation, ambition and a consistent endeavor.  Students will be expected to create a complete animation, a series of experiments, projection or interactive project.  The expectation is that students will be fully

projects in animation and projections — MA4314.01

Instructor: Sue Rees
Days & Time: TH 8:30am-12:10pm
Credits: 4

The course will be for sustained work on an animation or design project, and should be a space for both experimentation, ambition and a consistent endeavor.  Students will be expected to create a complete animation, a series of experiments, projection or interactive project.  The expectation is that students will be fully

Projects in Costume Design — DRA4210.01

Instructor: Charles Schoonmaker
Credits: 4
This is a production class that will be centered on designing the costumes for both the Drama production directed by Kirk Jackson, and a new dance work by Dana Reitz. Students will work collaboratively on the design elements of the costumes and the realization of the costume design. Responsibilities will include conception, rendering, sourcing, shopping, fitting and working

Public Theatre Lab — APA2015.01) (cancelled 11/16/2023

Instructor: Dina Janis
Credits: 4
What should a public-facing theater do? Stimulate local business? Enrich the lives of community members? Probe the biggest questions of our time? Support the passions of amateurs? Art-wash corporations? Provide a living wage for professionals? Revive a post-industrial town? Public Theatre Lab is a space to reflect on ways institutions and individuals past and present have

Radio Plays (Advanced): Making Theatre for Radio and Podcast — DRA4221.01

Instructor: Dina Janis
Credits: 4
A performance-based course for folks interested in this medium who have completed Part One or have comparable experience. It is not necessary to have elaborate skill in sound design and editing, though students with this interest are welcome to enroll. All students will perform as actors in each other’s projects. Each week the class will listen to examples of current Radio Play

Radio Plays: Making Theatre for Radio and Podcast — DRA2305.01

Instructor: Dina Janis
Credits: 4
A performance-based course for folks interested in this medium. It is not necessary to have elaborate skill in sound design and editing, though students with this interest are welcome to enroll. All students will perform as actors in each other’s projects. Each week the class will listen to examples of current Radio Play and Theatre Podcast content, writing up play reports and