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Character and Modern Dress — DRA2279.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Charles Schoonmaker
Credits: 4
This class will examine the utilization of fashion as a tool to tell the story of a character and a script. We will possibly have the opportunity to work with "How Water Behaves" and/ or "Bellarusian Dream" as part of the class.
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Characters Welcome — DRA4421.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Shawtane Bowen
Credits: 4
Comedy while fun is a lot of work and, unlike, the more traditional "actor's" life, it's all about self-generating material. Characters Welcome is a course designed to help you create original characters and impressions that can sharpen your comedic voice and create content that can eventually (hopefully) be monetized. While we actors toil away in the dank dark basements of
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Chekhov's World — DRA4378.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: Jennifer Rohn
Credits: 4
“People are sitting at a table having dinner, that's all, but at the same time their happiness is being created, or their lives are being torn apart."-Anton Chekhov In this advanced acting course, we will delve deeply into the life and plays of Anton Chekhov through research, discussion, and performance. Chekhov’s plays present an actor with both unique challenges (buried
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Child and Youth Migration: In Between Cultures — DRA2166.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Burcu Seyben
Credits: 4
Today, millions of children and young people are forced to leave their homeland, or want to move to other countries for a variety of reasons. This course will focus on the experience of these children and young people who cross borders due to war, conflict, pursuit of education, new discoveries, jobs, family, or human trafficking. The course will explore how children and young
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Choice and Consequence - Alternative History — DRA2277.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Sherry Kramer
Credits: 4
We are our choices. -Satre Plays and films are empathic art forms that seduce us into imaginatively making choices and suffering consequences along with their characters. Every day in the real world, we watch as people make choices whose consequences are truly ours to share—some global, some local. What if we could rewrite those choices and change what happens to our lives,
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Choice and Consequence: Alternative History — DRA2277.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Sherry Kramer
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
"The theater is the place where we learn how to be. At its best, it is a rehearsal for the great moments of our life, including our happinesses. Love, death, we see it on stage and it prepares us for our life" -John Guare A play is a metaphoric and empathic art form that seduces us into imaginatively making choices and suffering consequences along with the characters on stage.
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Choice and Consequence: Alternative History — DRA2277.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Sherry Kramer
Credits: 4
The theater is the place where we learn how to be. At its best, it is a rehearsal for the great moments of our life, including our happinesses. Love, death, we see it on stage and it prepares us for our life.” —John Guare A play is a metaphoric and empathic art form that seduces us into imaginatively making choices and suffering consequences along with the characters on stage.
Drama Literature

Choice and Consequence: Alternative History — DRA2277.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Sherry Kramer
Credits: 4
“The theater is the place where we learn how to be. At its best, it is a rehearsal for the great moments of our life, including our happinesses. Love, death, we see it on stage and it prepares us for our life.” —John Guare A play is a metaphoric and empathic art form that seduces us into imaginatively making choices and suffering consequences along with the characters on stage.
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Choice and Consequence: Alternative History — DRA2277.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Sherry Kramer
Credits: 4
“The theater is the place where we learn how to be. At its best, it is a rehearsal for the great moments of our life, including our happinesses. Love, death, we see it on stage and it prepares us for our life.” —John Guare A play is a metaphoric and empathic art form that seduces us into imaginatively making choices and suffering consequences along with the characters on stage.
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Choice and Consequence: Alternative History — DRA2277.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Sherry Kramer
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
“The theater is the place where we learn how to be. At its best, it is a rehearsal for the great moments of our life, including our happinesses. Love, death, we see it on stage and it prepares us for our life.” —John Guare A play is a metaphoric and empathic art form that seduces us into imaginatively making choices and suffering consequences along with the characters on stage
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Choice and Consequence: Alternative History — DRA2277.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Sherry Kramer
Credits: 4
The theater is the place where we learn how to be. At its best, it is a rehearsal for the great moments of our life, including our happinesses. Love, death, we see it on stage and it prepares us for our life.” —John Guare A play is a metaphoric and empathic art form that seduces us into imaginatively making choices and suffering consequences along with the characters on stage.
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Cinematic Shorts: Acting for Film and Video — DRA4382.01, section 1

Spring 2024
Instructor: Dina Janis
Credits: 4
In this advanced acting class, students will learn some of the basic techniques of film acting, creating short form projects which will allow them to gain experience working for the lens rather than for the stage. Students will work with the book: Acting For Film by Cathy Haase, and using various selected monologue and scene material, will create and present short videos which
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Cinematic Shorts: Acting for Film and Video — DRA4382.02, section 2

Spring 2024
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
In this advanced acting class, students will learn some of the basic techniques of film acting, creating short form projects which will allow them to gain experience working for the lens rather than for the stage. Students will work with the book: Acting For Film by Cathy Haase, and using various selected monologue and scene material, will create and present short videos which
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Cinematic Shorts: Acting for Film and Video — DRA4382.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Dina Janis
Credits: 4
In this advanced acting class, students will learn some of the basic techniques of film acting, creating short form projects which will allow them to gain experience working for the lens rather than for the stage. Students will work with the book: Acting For Film by Cathy Haase, and using various selected monologue and scene material, will create and present short videos which
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Clothes: Reduce, Reuse, Redux — DES2108.01

Fall 2025
Instructor: Tilly Grimes
Days & Time: TU 8:30am-12:10pm
Credits: 2

A sustainable design process with found clothing 

Every year, roughly 92 million tons of clothing end up in landfills. This course seeks to support students rescuing our cast-offs by upcycling fast fashion. Students will explore how to

Drama Design

Clothes: Reduce, Reuse, Redux — DES2108.01

Spring 2027
Instructor: Tilly Grimes
Days & Time: WE 8:30am-12:10pm
Credits: 2

A sustainable design process with found clothing 

Every year, roughly 92 million tons of clothing end up in landfills. This course seeks to support students rescuing our cast-offs by upcycling fast fashion. Students will explore how to

Dance Drama Design

Clothes: Reduce, Reuse, Redux — DRA2382.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Tilly Grimes
Credits: 2
A sustainable design process with found clothing Every year, roughly 92 million tons of clothing end up in landfills. This course seeks to support students rescuing our cast-offs by upcycling fast fashion. Students will explore how to deconstruct garments, rethink their intention, and reconstruct them anew. We will conceptualize a mini collection for theoretical “clients”/
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Clothing Beyond Binary — DRA2324.03

Spring 2023
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 2
Taught by visiting faculty Michael Sylvan Robinson ‘89, internationally exhibited genderqueer fiber artist and activist, this seven week module provides opportunities to develop costume and fashion designs with a focus on “beyond binary” expressions in clothing. We’ll research and recognize the people wearing and creating clothing that resists restrictive gendered "norms" of
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Collaboration in Light, Movement & Clothes — DAN4286.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Dana Reitz
Credits: 4
Visual elements are a significant component of performance, whether it be theater, performance art, music or dance. With many performance projects, there is little time to contemplate, rethink or adjust designs in the actual performance space; there is rarely an opportunity to watch a collaborative art develop. In this class, equipped space is available to give the time to
Dance Drama

Collaboration in Light, Movement and Clothes — DAN4286.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Michael Giannitti
Credits: 4
​​Visual elements are a significant component of performance, whether it be theater, performance art, music or dance. With many performance projects, there is little time to contemplate, rethink or adjust designs in the actual performance space; there is rarely an opportunity to watch a collaborative art develop. In this class, equipped space is available to give the time to
Dance Drama Visual Arts

Collaboration in Light, Movement, and Clothes — DAN4286.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Michael Giannitti, Dana Reitz, Charles Schoonmaker
Credits: 4
Visual elements are a significant component of performance, whether it be theater, performance art, music or dance. With many performance projects, there is little time to contemplate, rethink or adjust designs in the actual performance space; there is rarely an opportunity to watch a collaborative art develop. In this class, equipped space is available to give the time to
Dance Drama

Collaboration in Light, Movement, and Clothes — DAN4286.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Michael Giannitti, Dana Reitz, Charles Schoonmaker
Credits: 4
Visual elements are a significant component of performance, whether it be theater, performance art, music or dance. With many performance projects, there is little time to contemplate, rethink or adjust designs in the actual performance space; there is rarely an opportunity to watch a collaborative art develop. In this class, equipped space is available to give the time to
Dance Drama

Coming of Age: Gender and Genre — DRA2314.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Jean Randich
Credits: 4
"You can choose a lighter path, go through that door with nothing on your person, nothing on your back." --Anna Maria Hong, "H G" In this course we will investigate contemporary plays, films, and books in which the protagonists have the courage to question authority, lean into the unknown, survive despite harrowing odds, and allow time to help then unfold their identities.
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