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Directing II — DRA4376.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Kirk Jackson
Credits: 4
We will address the process of discerning a text’s dramatic potential and realizing that potential in performance by developing and implementing a directorial approach through analysis and rehearsal techniques. The term is divided between exercises and rehearsal of individual projects. The work of the course will culminate in a director’s approach essay, a rehearsal log, and a
Drama

Directing II — DRA4376.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: Kirk Jackson
Credits: 4
We will address the process of discerning a text’s dramatic potential and realizing that potential in performance by developing and implementing a directorial approach through analysis and rehearsal techniques. While technically a second 7 week intensive, there will be at least three class meetings (time TBD) in September, followed by individual consultations. These tutorial
Drama

Directing II — DRA4376.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Kirk Jackson
Credits: 4
We will address the process of discerning a text’s dramatic potential and realizing that potential in performance by developing and implementing a directorial approach through analysis and rehearsal techniques. The term is divided between exercises and rehearsal of individual projects. The work of the course will culminate in a director’s approach essay, a rehearsal log, and a
Drama

Directing II — DRA4376.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Kirk Jackson
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
We will address the process of discerning a text's dramatic potential and realizing that potential in performance by developing and implementing a director's approach through analysis and rehearsal techniques. The term is divided between exercises and rehearsal of individual projects. The work of the course will culminate in a director's approach essay, a rehearsal log, and an
Drama

Directing II — DRA4376.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Kathleen Dimmick
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
We will address the process of discerning a text's dramatic potential and realizing that potential in performance by developing and implementing a directorial approach through analysis and rehearsal techniques. The term is divided between exercises and rehearsal of individual projects. The work of the course will culminate in a director's approach essay, a rehearsal log, and an
Drama

Directing II — DRA4376.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Kirk Jackson
Credits: 4
We will address the process of discerning a text's dramatic potential and realizing that potential in performance by developing and implementing a directorial approach through analysis and rehearsal techniques. The term is divided between exercises and rehearsal of individual projects. The work of the course will culminate in a director's approach essay, a rehearsal log, and an
Drama

Directing II — DRA4376.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Kirk Jackson
Credits: 4
We will address the process of discerning a text’s dramatic potential and realizing that potential in performance by developing and implementing a directorial approach through analysis and rehearsal techniques. The term is divided between exercises and rehearsal of individual projects. The work of the course will culminate in a director’s approach essay, a rehearsal log, and a
Drama

Directing II — DRA4376.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Kirk Jackson
Credits: 4
We will address the process of discerning a text’s dramatic potential and realizing that potential in performance by developing and implementing a directorial approach through analysis and rehearsal techniques. The term is divided between exercises and rehearsal of individual projects. The work of the course will culminate in a director’s approach essay, a rehearsal log, and a
Drama

Directing II — DRA4376.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Kirk Jackson
Credits: 4
We will address the process of discerning a text’s dramatic potential and realizing that potential in performance by developing and implementing a directorial approach through analysis and rehearsal techniques. The term is divided between exercises and rehearsal of individual projects. The work of the course includes a midterm Director’s Approach Essay, a final Rehearsal Log,
Drama

Doll House, Diorama – Created Worlds — MA4207.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Sue Rees
Credits: 4
For centuries, miniature models have been used as representations of larger things or as standalone objects of wonder. Working at ‘dollhouse scale’ (1:12 or 1:24) students in this course will create dollhouses or dioramas and turn them into sites, surfaces and containers for animated and projected worlds. Students will use a variety of digital modeling and animation software
Visual Arts Drama

Double Exposure: Acting for Singers, Singing for Actors — DRA4385.01

Spring 2027
Instructor: Jennifer Rohn
Days & Time: MO 1:40pm-5:20pm
Credits: 4

Actors and singers study remarkably similar skills: efficient use of the body and breath, research and development of character and context, staying present and emotionally connected. But even the most seasoned performer feels doubly exposed when asked to sing and act at the same time. In this class, using repertoire as varied as incidental music for Shakespeare, musical

Drama Voice

Double Exposure: Acting for Singers, Singing for Actors — DRA4385.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Kerry Ryer-Parke
Credits: 4
Actors and singers study remarkably similar skills: efficient use of the body and breath, research and development of character and context, staying present and emotionally connected. But even the most seasoned performer feels doubly exposed when asked to sing and act at the same time. In this class, using repertoire as varied as incidental music for Shakespeare, musical
Drama Music

Double Exposure: Acting for Singers/Singing for Actors — DRA4263.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Kerry Ryer-Parke Jennifer Rohn
Credits: 4
Actors and singers study remarkably similar skills: efficient use of the body and breath, development of text, character and context, staying present and emotionally connected. But even the most seasoned performer feels doubly exposed when asked to sing and act at the same time. In this class, using repertoire as varied as incidental music for Shakespeare plays, musical theatre
Drama Music

Double Exposure: Acting for Singers/Singing for Actors — DRA4263.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Kerry Ryer-Parke
Credits: 4
Actors and singers study remarkably similar skills: efficient use of the body and breath, development of text, character and context, staying present and emotionally connected. But even the most seasoned performer feels doubly exposed when asked to sing and act at the same time. In this class, using repertoire as varied as incidental music for Shakespeare plays, musical theatre
Drama Music

Doubleness — DRA2179.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
Doubleness is one of the fundamental building blocks and one of the most elemental and profound aspects of art. It is the way a thing can be more than one thing at once that is both mysterious and precise. It is the heart and blood of metaphor: to say one thing and mean another in a way that saying it straight out could never mean. Dramatic doubleness is a form of rhyme that
Drama

Drafting the Stage — DRA2393.01

Fall 2026
Instructor: Seancolin Hankins
Days & Time: FR 2:10pm-4:00pm
Credits: 2

This course introduces students to the fundamentals of theatrical design with a focus on creating and interpreting scale drawings. Students will explore how scale functions as a means of communication between directors and designers, as a critical tool in scenic/lighting design, and stage management, allowing ideas to be translated from concept to construction to performance

Drama

Drama Faculty Production: Backstage — DRA4179.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Michael Giannitti
Credits: 1
Working back stage on the Drama Faculty production provides an opportunity to learn what is involved in putting on a performance, and to observe the creative process of the director, designers and actors first hand. Students will fill a role through the week of technical rehearsals and performances, either as general run crew, light or sound board operator, or wardrobe crew,
Drama

Dramaturgies of Care — APA4169.02

Fall 2024
Instructor: Susan Sgorbati
Credits: 1
We all need more care. That much is clear. As it pertains to modern social justice and public action projects, the imperative to incorporate systems of care and healing into the greater conversation has increased dynamically. With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and increased environmental issues due to climate change, it has become even more vital to consider holistic care
CAPA Dance Drama

Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama — DRA4361.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: kathleen dimmick
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This course investigates the great flourishing of drama in late 16th and early 17th century England, a period of little more than fifty years that produced the most robust theater in the English-speaking world. We read plays by several of the major writers of the period, with the exception of Shakespeare: Kyd, Marlowe, Green, Jonson, Dekker, Heywood, Webster, Middleton, and
Drama Literature

Embodying Shakespeare's Language — DRA4403.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: Kirk Jackson
Credits: 4
We will engage in an investigation of textual analysis for performance of Shakespeare: scansion, rhythm, sense stress, image work, phonetic phraseology, etc. We will study the structure of the verse and the elements of rhetoric as the primary source for an actor’s investigation and performance of a role. We will explore techniques for enlivening that analysis in the performer’s
Drama

Embodying Structure: Construction of the Corset — DRA2213.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Richard MacPike
Credits: 2
In order to construct a historical costume accurately one often needs to start with the foundation garments of that period. This course will examine how corsets and their construction play a role in re-creating period silhouettes. Students will learn how to reproduce period corset patterns as well as construct the corsets with all their structural elements. Particular attention
Dance Drama

Embodying Structure: Construction of the Corset — DRA2213.01

Fall 2026
Instructor: Richard MacPike
Days & Time: TU,FR 4:10pm-6:00pm
Credits: 2

In order to construct a historical costume accurately one often needs to start with the foundation garments of that period. This course will examine how corsets and their construction play a role in recreating period silhouettes. Students will learn how to reproduce period corset patterns as well as construct the corsets with

Dance Drama