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The Drama-Free Workshop — DRA4123.02

Fall 2023
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 2
This class will concentrate on confidence building for actors/performers or anyone tired of letting a smartphone dictate their feelings of success. Goals will include cultivating positivity and confidence around performing. We will explore as a group how criticism is the enemy of creativity. The goal for this class is that students gain confidence through games and exercises
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The Drama-Free Workshop — DRA4123.01

Fall 2023
Instructor:
Credits: 2
This class will concentrate on confidence building for actors/performers or anyone tired of letting a smartphone dictate their feelings of success. Goals will include cultivating positivity and confidence around performing. We will explore as a group how criticism is the enemy of creativity. The goal for this class is that students gain confidence through games and exercises
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The History of Directing — DRA2169.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Jean Randich
Credits: 4
How did the director emerge as a driving, creative force in the theater? We will work semi-chronologically from the late 19th to the early 21st century, examining how culture and theater interact and change each other. We will consider traditional theater, the rise of the modern director, theatricality, epic theater, auteur directors, ensemble theater, theater for social change
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The Kimono Project: A design process — DRA2321.02

Fall 2023
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 2
This is a class for students interested in costume design and theatrical design in general. In this course, students will take an emotional response from their own personal history through a complete design process including the construction of a final garment(s) - a kimono. We will look at how artists from different mediums have interpreted their own source material. Each
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The Line of Clothing: Rendering for Costume Design — DRA2267.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Charles Schoonmaker
Credits: 4
The rendering of one's design ideas is a basic tool of the designer. This class will explore various methods of communicating oneʹs design ideas to directors, performers, producers, and other members of a creative team. We will primarily use traditional materials such as paper, pencil, and paint. We will also work in new media, such as ʹBrushesʹ on tablets, or Photoshop. It is
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The Line of Clothing: Rendering for Costume Design — DRA2267.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Charles Schoonmaker
Credits: 4
The rendering of one’s design ideas is a basic tool of the designer. This class will explore various methods of communicating oneʹs design ideas to directors, performers, producers, and other members of a creative team. We will primarily use traditional materials such as paper, pencil, and paint. We may also work in digital media, such as ʹBrushesʹ on tablets, or Photoshop. It
Dance Drama

The Line of Clothing: Rendering for Costume Design — DRA2311.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Charles Schoonmaker
Credits: 2
Rendering is one of the fundamental techniques designers use to visualize their ideas. This class will explore various methods used to communicate visual ideas to directors, performers, producers, and other members of a creative team. While we will primarily work using traditional materials such as paper, pencil, and paint, we may also have occasion to work in digital media.
Dance Drama

The Living Play — DRA2387.01

Spring 2026
Instructor: Abe Koogler
Days & Time: WE 2:10pm-5:50pm
Credits: 4

This course is designed for new (or new-ish) playwrights, although more experienced playwrights who want to dig into the fundamentals are also welcome. We will focus on eight essential elements of playwriting craft: character, language, subtext, power, place, theatricality, surprise, and an elusive element called the gap. We will experiment with a variety of ways to start a

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The Magical Object — DRA2116.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Sherry Kramer
Credits: 4
There is a great difference between a prop and an object on stage that is built or filled with the dramatic forces of a play. Such objects become metaphors, they become fresh comprehensions of the world. In the theater, we believe in magic. Our gaze is focused on ordinary objects…a glass figurine, a pair of shoes, a wedding dress…and then our attention is shaped, and charged,
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The Magical Object — DRA2116.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Sherry Kramer
Credits: 4
There is a great difference between a prop and an object that is built or filled with the dramatic forces of a play or film. These objects fill with meaning and power and the hopes of the characters, and ours. But how do we generate a magical object that can organize an entire work of timebound art? We will pursue our investigation in the timebound arts of theatre and film,
Drama Visual Arts

The Magical Object - Visual Metaphor — DRA2116.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Sherry Kramer
Credits: 4
There is a great difference between a prop and an object on stage that is built or filled with the dramatic forces of a play. Such objects become metaphors, they become fresh comprehensions of the world. In the theater, we believe in magic. Our gaze is focused on ordinary objects…a glass figurine, a pair of shoes, a wedding dress…and then our attention is shaped, and charged,
Drama Visual Arts

The Magical Object - Visual Metaphor — DRA2116.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Sherry Kramer
Credits: 4
There is a great difference between a prop and an object on stage that is built or filled with the dramatic forces of a play. Such objects become metaphors, they become fresh comprehensions of the world. In the theater, we believe in magic. Our gaze is focused on ordinary objects...a glass figurine, a pair of shoes, a wedding dress...and then our attention is shaped, and
Drama Visual Arts

The Magical Object - Visual Metaphor — DRA2116.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Sherry Kramer
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
There is a great difference between a prop and an object on stage that is built or filled with the dramatic forces of a play. Such objects become metaphors, they become fresh comprehensions of the world. In the theater, we believe in magic. Our gaze is focused on ordinary objects…a glass figurine, a pair of shoes, a wedding dress…and then our attention is shaped, and charged,
Drama Visual Arts

The Magical Object - Visual Metaphor — DRA2116.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Sherry Kramer
Credits: 4
There is a great difference between a prop and an object on stage that is built or filled with the dramatic forces of a play. Such objects become metaphors, they become fresh comprehensions of the world. In the theater, we believe in magic. Our gaze is focused on ordinary objects…a glass figurine, a pair of shoes, a wedding dress…and then our attention is shaped, and charged,
Drama Visual Arts

The Magical Object – Visual Metaphor — DRA2116.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Sherry Kramer
Credits: 4
There is a great difference between a prop and an object on stage that is built or filled with the dramatic forces of a play. Such objects become metaphors, they become fresh comprehensions of the world. In the theater, we believe in magic. Our gaze is focused on ordinary objects…a glass figurine, a pair of shoes, a wedding dress…and then our attention is shaped, and charged,
Drama Visual Arts

The Magical Object: Visual Metaphor — DRA2116.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
There is a great difference between a prop and an object that is built or filled with the dramatic forces of a play or film. These objects fill with meaning and power and the hopes of the characters, and ours. But how do we generate a magical object that can organize an entire work of timebound art? We will pursue our investigation in the timebound arts of
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The Puppet Project — DRA4244.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Tilly Grimes
Credits: 4
Part performance, part design, part construction, this class will center around the creation of characters, fabricating them, and then bringing them to life. We will also explore an overview of the history and use of puppets in storytelling and different forms of puppet performance. We will also look at different Puppetry practitioners practicing today. Although we will
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The Room Where it Happens: Introduction to Costume Design — DRA2150.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Charles Schoonmaker
Credits: 4
This class will serve to introduce and build skills as a costume designer. We will read, analyze and chart scripts, develop research skills and build a fluency in rendering design ideas by working on graphic skills. We will also work on some non-scripted projects, and in various genres of performance possibly including ballet, opera, television and film. We will have in class
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The Veil and the Arts: Discourses and Experiences around the Veil in Contemporary Works — APA2201.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Burcu Seyben
Credits: 4
The veil, the headscarf or hijab has been a very controversial issue all over the world. It has also been the subject of many artworks produced both by veiled women themselves, or by others. Some of these art works serve and create the discourses of nationalism. colonialism, patriarchy, and Islamophobia, while others (especially those which have been created by veiled women)
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Theater Games and Improvisation — DRA2123.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
Whose class is this anyway? Improvisation is for everyone. Life is made up as it happens and improv is no different. This course will explore the basic elements of improvisation. Through short and long form theater games, pattern and rhythm exercises, we aim to heighten observation, listening skills, and ensemble building. Character, object, and environment work will be
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Theater Games and Improvisation — DRA2123.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Shawtane Bowen
Credits: 4
Whose class is this anyway? Improvisation is for everyone. Life is made up as it happens and improv is no different. This course will explore the basic elements of improvisation. Through short and long form theater games, pattern and rhythm exercises, we aim to heighten observation, listening skills, and ensemble building. Character, object, and environment work will be
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Theater Games and Improvisation — DRA2123.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: James Smith III
Credits: 4
Whose class is this anyway? Improvisation is for everyone. Life is made up as it happens and improv is no different. This course will explore the basic elements of improvisation. Through short and long form theater games, pattern and rhythm exercises, we aim to heighten observation, listening skills, and ensemble building. Character, object, and environment work will be
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Theater Games and Improvisation — DRA2123.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
Whose class is this anyway? Improvisation is for everyone. Life is made up as it happens and  improv is no different. This course will explore the basic elements of improvisation. Through  short and long form theater games, pattern and rhythm exercises, we aim to heighten  observation, listening skills, and ensemble building. Character, object, and environment
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Theater Games and Improvisation — DRA2123.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Shawtane Bowen
Credits: 4
Whose class is this anyway? Improvisation is for everyone. Life is made up as it happens and improv is no different. This course will explore the basic elements of improvisation. Through short and long form theater games, pattern and rhythm exercises, we aim to heighten observation, listening skills, and ensemble building. Character, object, and environment work will be
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