THEA 2204 - THEORIES OF ACTING AND DIRECTING

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 5
Students hone, diversify and/or solidify their directing craft through tude staging assignments and personalized, practical projects designed in consultation with the instructor. Students will engage with foundational director-driven, directing and devising texts in our field, from Brecht, Artuad, and Growtoski to Aikalitis, Bogart, and others, with particular attention to both practical and pedagogical application as well as critical evaluations of methods, cultural institutions, and representation. Students will gain facility with expectations of academic institutions and programs including, but not limited to: moving between roles of director, coach and acting teacher in production; scaffolding connections between rehearsal, performance and studio work; collaborating within an academic department; mobilizing community-academic and/or interdisciplinary engagement through production work; practice as research; and standards for documenting, narrating and framing directorial work across institutional environments and positions (ie, as an MFA, a PhD, an MFA-PhD; at R1, liberal arts and/or community colleges).
Academic Career: Graduate
Course Component: Practicum
Grade Component: Grad Letter Grade

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