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An Actor’s Technique-Nuts and Bolts — DRA4127.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Dina Janis
Credits: 4
How do actors bridge the gap between themselves and the role they are playing? How do actors rehearse with other actors in order to explore the world of the play? This non-performance based class is designed to help individual actors discover their own organic, thorough rehearsal process. Step by step we will clarify the actor’s process: character research, character
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An Actor’s Technique: Nuts and Bolts — DRA4127.01

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

How do actors bridge the gap between themselves and the role they are playing? How do actors rehearse with other actors in order to explore the world of the play? 

This non-performance based class is designed to help individual actors discover their own organic, thorough rehearsal process. Step by step we will clarify the actor’s process: character research,

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An Intro to Acting: Suzuki and Viewpoints — DRA2174.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Gian-Murray Gianino
Credits: 4
An introduction to the Suzuki Method of Actor Training and the Viewpoints practice. This class offers the beginning actor/artist a way of entering into a dialogue with technique. It will require rigorous physical exploration and puts a value and emphasis on the body as the bedrock of the artist. These trainings seek to heighten the actor's emotional and physical power, one's
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Animation 1 — MA2105.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: sue rees
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
The class will be concerned with animating inanimate objects by stop motion, drawings, and cut out collages. A variety of filmmakers and techniques will be looked at during the course of the semester. Students will be expected to produce a variety of short projects followed by a longer more sustained project based on current events and environmental issues. Students will be
Drama Visual Arts

Animation One – Animating Inanimate Objects — MA2109.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Sue Rees
Credits: 4
The class will be concerned with animating inanimate objects by primarily stop motion. Locations will be constructed, objects to animated formed, and lighting explored in order to create the imaginary world. A variety of filmmakers and techniques will be looked at during the course of the semester. Students will be expected to produce a variety of short projects over the first
Drama Visual Arts

Animation Projects — MA4201.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Sue Rees
Credits: 4
The course will be for sustained work on an animation. Students will be expected to create a complete animation, or project. The expectation is that students will be fully engaged in their project, and with critiques. Student will work with sound effects and sound scores to complete their final animation. A public showing will be required.
Drama Visual Arts

Animation Projects — MA4202.01

Spring 2024
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 or interactive project. The expectation is that students will be fully engaged in all aspects of the class from critiques, to experimenting
Drama Visual Arts

Animation Projects – Pre-Production Class — MA4026.02

Fall 2019
Instructor: Sue Rees
Credits: 2
This class is a pre-production for a future project whether for a projection, an animation or installation. Research will be undertaken, with this research presented. A catalogue of images, materials objects, and storyboarding along with creating a short tests for a longer project will be completed by the end of the term. Various situations, and presentation formats and
Drama Visual Arts

Art Deco Style — DRA4320.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Charles Schoonmaker
Credits: 4
This advanced design class focuses primarily on costume design while also exploring elements of scenery, architecture, and the decorative arts. The class is project-based and involves designing for both scripted and unscripted forms (such as plays and dance) within the context of the Art Deco style. Students should possess an interest in period clothing and fashion, strong
Dance Drama

Art of Auditioning — DRA2178.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Jennifer Rohn
Credits: 2
Auditions are an opportunity to develop your artistic voice and your confidence in that voice through self-critique. In this class we will work to demystify the process of auditioning and understand how to prepare and present work under challenging circumstances. We will cover cold readings, monologues and prepared scenes, with an in-depth look at each step of the process, from
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Art of Stage Design — DRA2250.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Michael Giannitti
Credits: 4
A scenic design communicates lots of information to an audience, and provides the physical world in which a performance takes place. In his book The Dramatic Imagination, the great set designer Robert Edmond Jones wrote: “…we may fairly speak of the art of stage designing as poetic, in that it seeks to give expression to the essential quality of a play rather than to its
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Art of Stage Design — DRA2250.01

Fall 2025
Instructor: Michael Giannitti
Days & Time: TU 8:30am-12:10pm
Credits: 4

A set design communicates lots of information to an audience, and provides the physical world in which a performance takes place. In his book The Dramatic Imagination, the great set designer Robert Edmond Jones wrote: “…we may fairly speak of the art of stage designing as poetic, in that it seeks to give expression to the essential quality of a play rather than to

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Art of Stage Design — DRA2250.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Michael Giannitti
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
A set design communicates lots of information to an audience, and provides the physical world in which a performance takes place. In his book The Dramatic Imagination, the great set designer Robert Edmond Jones wrote: “…we may fairly speak of the art of stage designing as poetic, in that it seeks to give expression to the essential quality of a play rather than to its outward
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Artist's Portfolio — DAN4366.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Dana Reitz
Credits: 2
Explaining artwork often goes against the grain, yet artists are regularly called upon to articulate their processes, tools, and dynamics of collaboration. To help secure any of the myriad forms of institutional support including funding, venues, and engagements, artists must develop–creatively and flexibly–essential skills. Finding a public language for what is the private
Dance Drama Music Visual Arts

Artist's Portfolio — DAN4366.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Dana Reitz
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
Explaining artwork often goes against the grain, yet artists are regularly called upon to articulate their processes, tools, and dynamics of collaboration. To help secure any of the myriad forms of institutional support including funding, venues, and engagements, artists must develop--creatively and flexibly--essential skills. Finding a public language for what is the private
Dance Drama Music Visual Arts

Artist's Portfolio — DAN4366.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Dana Reitz
Credits: 2
Explaining artwork often goes against the grain, yet artists are regularly called upon to articulate their processes, tools, and dynamics of collaboration. To help secure any of the myriad forms of institutional support including funding, venues, and engagements, artists must develop–creatively and flexibly–essential skills. Finding a public language for what is the private
Dance Drama Music

Artist's Portfolio — DAN4366.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Dana Reitz
Credits: 2
Explaining artwork often goes against the grain, yet artists are regularly called upon to articulate their processes, tools, and dynamics of collaboration. To help secure any of the myriad forms of institutional support including funding, venues, and engagements, artists must develop–creatively and flexibly–essential skills. Finding a public language for what is the private
Dance Drama Music Visual Arts

Artist's Portfolio — DAN4366.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: dana reitz
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
Explaining art work often goes against the grain, yet artists are regularly called upon to articulate their processes, tools, and dynamics of collaboration. To help secure any of the myriad forms of institutional support including funding, venues, and engagements, artists must develop, creatively and flexibly, essential skills. Finding a public language for what is the private
Dance Drama Music Visual Arts

Artist's Portfolio — DAN4366.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: Dana Reitz
Credits: 2
Explaining artwork often goes against the grain, yet artists are regularly called upon to articulate their processes, tools, and dynamics of collaboration. To help secure any of the myriad forms of institutional support including funding, venues, and engagements, artists must develop–creatively and flexibly–essential skills. Finding a public language for what is the private
Dance Drama Music Visual Arts

Artist's Portfolio — DAN4366.01) (cancelled

Fall 2021
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 2
Explaining artwork often goes against the grain, yet artists are regularly called upon to articulate their processes, tools, and dynamics of collaboration. To help secure any of the myriad forms of institutional support including funding, venues, and engagements, artists must develop essential skills, creatively and flexibly. Finding a public language for what is the private
Dance Drama Visual Arts

Artist's Portfolio: Parts I (the verbal) Part II (the visual) — DAN4150.01 (cancelled

Fall 2021
Instructor: Dana Reitz
Credits: 4
This is for advanced students (juniors and seniors) of the performing arts and visual arts disciplines who wish to find the language, both verbally and visually, that is reflective of their true creative processes, helps clarify and further their own investigations, and is readily available to present to others. Finding a public language for what is the private process of
Dance Drama Music Visual Arts

Basic Audio Technology for Drama/Dance Productions — MSR2212.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Michael Giannitti
Credits: 1
With a focus on Q Lab software and basic computer concepts, students will run audio/video from a computer through A/V distribution (mixing board, video switcher) and out into a theater space. The basics of wiring audio gear and how to think about sound will be covered. Having a Mac Laptop is a plus, but there will be a lab computer available.
Dance Drama Music

Basic Design Techniques of Theatrical Sound — DRA2245.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Leon Rothenberg
Credits: 1
Over four intensive sessions we will discuss the creative process of designing sound for plays and will look at the hardware and software tools used to express these designs. In the first two classes students will be introduced to the recording, editing and mixing techniques used in preparing music and sounds for theatrical productions. In the second weekend we will look at
Dance Drama Music

Beat by Beat — DRA4122.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Dina Janis
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Students in this class will read a selection of plays and be required to analyze and explore these plays beat by beat in class discussion and weekly critical writing exercises.  This is a script interpretation class in which theme, dramatic structure and arc, character development, tone, style and extensive study of the given playwrights and their influences will be
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Beat by Beat — DRA2122.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Dina Janis
Credits: 4
Students in this class will read a selection of plays drawn from a contemporary and classic canon of dramatic literature.  Students will  be required to analyze and explore these plays beat by beat.  This is a script interpretation class in which theme, dramatic structure and arc, character development, tone, style and study of given playwrights and their
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