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Time, Memory, and Meaning Making — DRA4309.01

Instructor: Sherry Kramer
Credits: 4
May memory restore again and again The smallest color of the smallest day: Time is the school in which we learn, Time is the fire in which we burn. -Delmore Schwartz The true territory that we create for the audience of a play or film is not the story we tell, or the characters we create, but the memories that the audience makes and processes about those stories and characters

Time, Memory, and Meaning Making — DRA4309.01

Instructor: Sherry Kramer
Credits: 4
May memory restore again and again The smallest color of the smallest day: Time is the school in which we learn, Time is the fire in which we burn.    -Delmore Schwartz They say that time is the main character of every story.  In time bound art forms, there are two times running in parallel--the story's, and the audience's. This class will investigate 

Tom Stoppard — LIT4376.01

Instructor: Maya Cantu
Credits: 4
Exemplified by works like Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Travesties, and Arcadia, the plays of Tom Stoppard perform dazzling high-wire acts of language and theatricality. Jumping between literary erudition and vaudevillian hijinks, Stoppard’s plays use meticulous technical precision to chart the enigmas of the brain and the chaos of the heart. As the playwright

Topping It Off — DRA2138.01

Instructor: Richard MacPike
Credits: 2
Nothing can inform, conceal, or embellish like a hat. Students in this course will learn about a variety of millinery techniques and materials by making a series of hats.

Topping It Off — DRA4115.01

Instructor: Richard MacPike
Credits: 2
Nothing can inform, conceal or embellish like a hat. Students in this course will learn a variety of millinery techniques through the making of buckram, wire framed, and felt hats.

Topping It Off — DRA2138.01

Instructor: Richard MacPike
Days & Time: TU,FR 4:10pm-6:00pm
Credits: 2

Nothing can inform, conceal, or embellish like a hat. Students in this course will learn about a variety of millinery techniques and materials by making a series of hats.

Topping it Off — DRA2138.01

Instructor: Richard MacPike
Credits: 2
Nothing can inform, conceal or embellish like a hat. Students in the course will learn about a variety of millinery techniques and materials by making a series of hats.

Transformation: an Approach to Character — DRA4149.01

Instructor: Oliver Wadsworth
Credits: 4
Whether Meryl Streep transforms into an old male Rabbi in Angels in America or Mark Rylance becomes a whisky swilling cult leader in Jerusalem, actors transforming into characters can be inspiring. It not only challenges the actor’s instrument – vocally, physically and emotionally – it can be artistically fulfilling in a deeply personal way. Walt Whitman said, “I contain

Transformational Acting — DRA4409.01

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
Walt Whitman said, “I contain multitudes.” The same can be said of a transformational actor. Playing against gender, age, and type, allows actors to perform the impossible; Become another person. The result is empathy for people that the actor might not otherwise know. It is also really fun! In this class, we will study techniques actors use to become characters who are

Transformational Acting — DRA4409.01

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
Walt Whitman said, “I contain multitudes.” The same can be said of a transformational actor. Playing against gender, age, and type, allows actors to perform the impossible; Become another person. The result is empathy for people that the actor might not otherwise know. It is also really fun! In this class, we will study techniques actors use to become characters who are

TV Comedy Pilot I — DRA4393.01

Instructor: Shawtane Bowen
Credits: 4
In this course, I will be working with a small group of students to explore the process of writing a comedy pilot for television. We’ll be reading and watching pilots from some of the best comedies of the last decade or so (Detroiters, Community, What We Do In The Shadows, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, etc.) to learn how they function and what makes a great pilot. Each week students will

Twentieth-Century American Women Playwrights — DRA2183.01

Instructor: Maya Cantu
Credits: 4
This course examines the ways in which American female playwrights of the twentieth century engaged with modernity, feminist and civil rights movements, concepts of national and cultural identity, and a wide range of theatrical genres and styles--from the realist problem play and “Golden Age” Broadway comedy through modernism and the avant-garde. Exploring the diversity

Vaudeville, Burlesque and Revue — DRA4346.01

Instructor: Maya Cantu
Days & Time: MO,TH 1:40pm-3:30pm
Credits: 4

Three remarkably flexible and enduring forms, whose contemporary avatars range from Bill Irwin and Jinkx Monsoon to Dita Von Teese and the Muppets, vaudeville, burlesque and revue represented the three dominant American variety theater traditions of the early through mid-twentieth century. While a vaudeville bill included eclectic acts, ranging from

Viewpoints - Exploring a Play and its Characters — DRA4226.01

Instructor: Jenny Rohn
Credits: 4
Viewpoints is an improvisational movement technique used to train actors and create movement for the stage. In this class students will work as an ensemble, training together in order to create a common physical language. The first third of the term will be dedicated to building the ensemble. Each class will include a warm up, detailed exploration of the individual Viewpoints

Viewpoints Groundwork — DRA2124.01

Instructor: Jennifer Rohn
Credits: 4
Viewpoints is a physical improvisational form used for training actors and creating movement for the stage. This class encourages students to explore the physical and vocal possibilities of time and space, with a specific focus on developing the capacity to be physically present, emotionally open, and free to follow creative impulses. Special emphasis will be placed on the

Viewpoints Groundwork — DRA2124.01

Instructor: Jenny Rohn
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Viewpoints is a physical improvisational form used for training actors and creating movement for the stage. This class encourages students to explore the physical and vocal possibilities of time and space, with a specific focus on developing the capacity to be physically present, emotionally open, and free to follow creative impulses. Special emphasis will be placed on the

Viewpoints Groundwork — DRA2124.01

Instructor: Jenny Rohn
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Viewpoints is a physical improvisational form used for training actors and creating movement for the stage. This class encourages students to explore the physical and vocal possibilities of time and space, with a specific focus on developing the capacity to be physically present, emotionally open, and free to follow creative impulses. Special emphasis will be placed on the

Viewpoints Groundwork — DRA2124.01

Instructor: Jennifer Rohn
Credits: 4
Viewpoints is a physical improvisational form used for training actors and creating movement for the stage. This class encourages students to explore the physical and vocal possibilities of time and space, with a specific focus on developing the capacity to be physically present, emotionally open, and free to follow creative impulses. Special emphasis will be placed on

Viewpoints Groundwork — DRA2124.01

Instructor: Jennifer Rohn
Credits: 4
Viewpoints is a physical improvisational form used for training actors and creating movement for the stage. This class encourages students to explore the physical and vocal possibilities of time and space, with a specific focus on developing the capacity to be physically present, emotionally open, and free to follow creative impulses. Special emphasis will be placed on the

Viewpoints Groundwork — DRA2124.01

Instructor: Jennifer Rohn
Days & Time: TU,FR 2:10pm-4:00pm
Credits: 4

Viewpoints is a physical improvisational form used for training actors and creating movement for the stage. This class encourages students to explore the physical and vocal possibilities of time and space, with a specific focus on developing the capacity to be physically present, emotionally open, and free to follow creative impulses. Special emphasis will be placed on

Viewpoints Playground — DRA2389.01

Instructor: Jennifer Rohn
Days & Time: WE 10:00am-11:50am
Credits: 2

Viewpoints Playground is a weekly training studio in physical theatre, designed as a space for sustained artistic practice, skill development, experimentation, and creative renewal. Open to students of all experience levels, the course serves as a laboratory for actors, movers, directors, and devisers interested in deepening their practice through embodied research

Voice and Speech Workshop — DRA2114.01

Instructor: Kirk Jackson
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
The human voice simultaneously communicates thought and emotion whether we will it or not. Through exercises focusing on alignment and release, breath expansion and endurance, vibration and tone, and articulation and flexibility, students will work to free, develop and strengthen their natural voice. Particular attention will be paid to diction to align clarity of thought and

Voice and Speech Workshop — DRA2114.01

Instructor: Kirk Jackson
Credits: 4
***Time Change*** The human voice simultaneously communicates thought and emotion whether we will it or not. Through exercises focusing on alignment and release, breath expansion and endurance, vibration and tone, and articulation and flexibility, students will work to free, develop and strengthen their natural voice. Particular attention will be paid to diction to align