My teaching philosophy centers on fostering creativity, consent-based practices, and community in theatre education. I empower students to embrace diverse perspectives, navigate boundaries with care, and engage collaboratively, preparing them to be compassionate and ethical practitioners in the field.
Performance of poetry, prose, and dramatic forms of literature and life texts. Includes analysis of conversational and literary forms, criticism, class presentations, and class responses.
Guided participation in major theatrical production as actress, assistant director/stage manager, or technical support (minimum of 45 hours of work time as crew member or crew head).
Discover the art and craft of stage management through class work, observation, and production exploration. Learn practical techniques for managing theatrical productions in preparation for academic and professional production responsibility
Intended for the BA in Social Change track student, this course explores the techniques, writings, performances, and scripts that are catalysts toward adopting social change in various devised theatre applications and beyond.
This course is required for all students majoring in theatre and is designed to teach the technical and theoretical skills of script analysis using a formalist approach. The course offers general guidelines for reading and thinking about plays and understanding the basic potentials of a play’s construction.
This course surveys the world’s dramatic literature by concentrating on text analysis of a representative sample of plays of varying periods (ancient, classical, modern) and types (tragedy, comedy, drama). Emphasis is placed on the plays in performance.
An introduction to basic theatrical costume design. Students will use color, texture, line, and concept to create costume designs for plays. They will employ play analysis, character analysis, and production concept as basis for costume design.