Course	THTR 101 Introduction to Acting
Professor	Lynn Hawley
CRN	90305
Schedule	Mon Wed 10:30 - 11:50 am Fisher Perf Arts
Distribution	OLD: F	NEW: Practicing Arts

3 credits This course, intended for prospective theater majors, focuses on accessing the beginning actor’s imagination and creative energy. Using theater games, movement work, and improvisational techniques, the intent is to expand the boundaries of accepted logic and to encourage risk-taking in the actor. Course work includes intensive classroom sessions, individual projects designed to promote self-discovery, and group projects focused on the process of collaborative work.

Course	THTR 101 Introduction to Acting
Professor	Jonathan Rosenberg
CRN	90309
Schedule	Tu Th 10:30 - 11:50 am Fisher Perf Arts
Distribution	OLD: F	NEW: Practicing Arts

3 credits This course, intended for prospective theater majors, focuses on accessing the beginning actor’s imagination and creative energy. Using theater games, movement work, and improvisational techniques, the intent is to expand the boundaries of accepted logic and to encourage risk-taking in the actor. Course work includes intensive classroom sessions, individual projects designed to promote self-discovery, and group projects focused on the process of collaborative work.

Course	THTR 101 Introduction to Acting
Professor	Naomi Thornton
CRN	90317
Schedule	Th 3:20 –5:20 pm Fisher Perf Arts
Distribution	OLD: F	NEW: Practicing Arts

2 credits Scene preparation and beginning scene technique. Emphasis on relaxation, breathing, and concentration. Teaching the actor to make choices and implement them using sense memory and to integrate this work with the text. Group and individual exercises and improvisations. Continuous work on the acting instrument stressing freedom, spontaneity, and individual attention. Materials: poems, monologues, stories, and scenes. Reading of American plays, 1930 to present.

Course	THTR 103CO Acting Company
Professor	Jonathan Rosenberg
CRN	90432
Schedule	Tu Th 1:30 -2:50 pm Fisher Perf Arts
Distribution	OLD: F	NEW: Practicing Arts

4 credits Corresponding with Directing Seminar, actors work with student directors on scene work for in-class presentation. Open to first year students.

Course	THTR 122 Movement for Actors
Professor	Lenore Latimer
CRN	90311
Schedule	Tu 4:30 -5:50 pm Fisher Perf Arts
Distribution	OLD: F	NEW: Practicing Arts

1 credit Basic training in movement, rhythm, development of technique and confidence in space.

Course	THTR 131 Voice for Majors
Professor	Elizabeth Smith
CRN	90312
Schedule	Tu Fr 1:25 -2:25 pm Fisher Perf Arts
Distribution	OLD: F	NEW: Practicing Arts

2 credits This course is designed to develop an awareness of the importance of physical relaxation, breath capacity and control, resonance and placement. There will also be an emphasis on clarity of articulation and the use of vocal range and inflection. This course is intended for moderated and prospective theater majors.

Course	THTR 132 Voice for Non-Majors
Professor	Elizabeth Smith
CRN	90313
Schedule	Tu Fr 2:55 -3:55 pm Fisher Perf Arts
Distribution	OLD: F	NEW: Practicing Arts

2 credits This course will concentrate on basic voice and speech work to enable the students to communicate with greater clarity and confidence. Some of the demands of speaking in public will also be addressed.

Course	THTR 141 Alexander Technique I
Professor	Judith Youett
CRN	90304
Schedule	Mon Fr 9:00 - 10:20 am Fisher Perf Arts
Distribution	OLD: F	NEW: Practicing Arts

1 credit. A world-respected technique developed over 100 years ago; the Alexander Technique is a valuable tool for performers, writers, scholars, and artists. It is a simple and practical approach to improving balance, coordination and movement. During this course we will learn about habits of thinking and moving that cause stress and fatigue. This awareness will enable different choices to be made in ourselves and how we respond to the environment. Register for one 90-minute group per week, THTR 141A or THTR 141B.

Course	THTR 142 Alexander Technique II
Professor	Judith Youett
CRN	90306
Schedule	Mon 10:30 - 11:50 am Fisher Perf Arts
Distribution	OLD: F	NEW: Practicing Arts

1 credit Level II deepens the study of Alexander Technique including the developmental movements that children make from birth to upright posture.

Course	THTR 206 History of Theater
Professor	Jean Wagner
CRN	90414
Schedule	Tu Th 9:00-10:20 am Preston Theater
Distribution	OLD: A	NEW: Analysis of Arts

Cross-listed: Classical Studies, Theology

4 credits This course looks at the major periods and forms of Western dramatic literature from its primal roots, through Greek and Roman Tragedy and Comedy, Medieval Theater, Tudor Comedy, Renaissance Drama, Commedia dell-arte, Elizabethan Theater, and the Spanish Golden Age. We will read plays from each of these periods as well as theoretical and critical writings which will elucidate the social and aesthetic conditions of the day. This course will provide the student with an understanding of the development of theater as an art form, and explore how theater relates to and reflects the intellectual, social, political and spiritual climate of the broader culture. This course is open to all students, and is a requirement for moderation in Theater.

Course	THTR 207 Playwriting I
Professor	Dominic Taylor
CRN	90413
Schedule	Mon 4:00 – 6:20 pm Fisher Perf Arts
Distribution	OLD: F	NEW: Practicing Arts

4 credits An introductory course that focuses on discovering the writer’s voice. Through writing exercises based on dreams, visual images, poetry, social issues, found text, and music, each writer is encouraged to find his or her unique language, style, and vision. A group project will explore the nature of collaborative works. Students learn elements of playwriting through writing a one-act play, reading assignments, and class discussions. This course is for sophomores and upperclass students only.

Course	THTR 208 Playwriting II
Professor	Chiori Miyagawa
CRN	90415
Schedule	Th 1:30 – 3:50 pm Fisher Perf Arts
Distribution	OLD: F	NEW: Practicing Arts

4 credits This course will function as a writer’s workshop. Students focus on developing a full-length play, with sections of the work-in-progress presented in class for discussions.  Students grow as playwrights by developing characters and themes that are sustained through a full-length play.  The students will also read a wide range of dramatic literature and be exposed to diverse styles of playwriting.   Email the instructor ([email protected]) with a brief paragraph of an idea for a play you would like to work on. Prerequisite: Playwriting I or Theatrical Adaptations.

Course	THTR 209 Scene Study
Professor	Jean Wagner
CRN	90427
Schedule	Wed 1:00 - 4:00 pm Fisher Perf Arts
Distribution	OLD: F	NEW: Practicing Arts

3 credits A course intended for students who have taken one semester of Intro to Acting and would like to continue their study. The course deals with movement from a games oriented curriculum into work with theatrical texts and discovery of the processes of scene study.

Course	THTR 227 Neutral Masks
Professor	Shelley Wyant
CRN	90315
Schedule	Wed 9:00 - 12:00 pm Fisher Perf Arts
Distribution	OLD: F	NEW: Practicing Arts

2 credits The roots of mask work come from a diverse system of traditions including the Balinese, the great teachers and the theorists Pierre LeFevre, Michel St. Denis, Jaques LeCoq and Francis Delsarte. Neutral Masks is an exploration of the world of the mask and all the freedom it has to offer performers, using tools of breath and focus. Students learn to identify the elements that contribute to physical expression.

Course	THTR 303 Directing Seminar
Professor	Jonathan Rosenberg
CRN	90310
Schedule	Tu 1:30 -4:30 pm Fisher Perf Arts
Distribution	OLD: F	NEW: Practicing Arts

4 credits This is a studio course that covers the practice of directing from text analysis, ‘table work’, imagining the world of the play, design, casting, space, rehearsal and blocking in different configurations. The work will proceed from scenes to a full-length work. By permission of the instructor.

Course	THTR 307 Advanced Acting
Professor	Lynn Hawley
CRN	90307
Schedule	Mon 1:00 -4:00 pm Fisher Perf Arts
Distribution	OLD: F	NEW: Practicing Arts

4 credits This is a studio acting class where students will explore scenes from challenging plays of varied styles. Extensive rehearsal time outside of class is required. Pre-requisites: Intro to Acting and Scene Study. Maximum enrollment: 12 students.

Course	THTR 307 B Advanced Acting
Professor	Naomi Thornton
CRN	90318
Schedule	Th 1:00 -3:00 pm Fisher Perf Arts
Distribution	OLD: F	NEW: Practicing Arts

3 credits This is a studio acting class where students will explore scenes from challenging plays of varied styles. Extensive rehearsal time outside of class is required. Pre-requisites: Intro to Acting and Scene Study. Maximum enrollment: 12 students.

Course	THTR 310H Survey: Yiddish Theater
Professor	Shelley Wyant
CRN	90308
Schedule	Mon 3:00 - 5:20 pm Fisher Perf Arts
Distribution	OLD: B	NEW: Analysis of Art

Cross-listed: Jewish Studies

In this course we examine the tradition of the Yiddish Theater as it evolved in the United States and trace its evolution from its European beginnings into the present day. The large numbers of eastern European Jewish immigrants that flocked to America at the turn of the century created a uniquely Yiddish-American culture which resulted in the development of a Yiddish Broadway on Second Avenue. We will investigate the historical aspect of the culture through historical books (Vagabond Stars by Nahma Sandrow) and primary resources – a visit to NYC’s Tenement Museum and YIVO at The Jewish Historical Society. We will focus on the recurrent themes of the promise of a just world and a longing for another time and place. We will study the Folksbienne theatre, a ninety-year-old professional Yiddish theatre company, classic literary texts - particularly the stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer (Gimpel the Fool, Taibele and Her Demon) - and popular plays of the period (God of Vengeance, The Golem). Students will perform scenes from plays as well as watch classic film performances of 1930’s Poland starring Molly Picon (Yidl Miten Fidl, Mirele Efros). Completing our investigation of the relevance and importance of the Yiddish Theatre, we will end with an analysis of Tony Kushner’s translation of Ansky’s play The Dybuk. Topics for papers and presentations include a translation of a Yiddish drama or an in-depth study of some aspect of the Yiddish Theatre: Klezmer music, Second Avenue Theatres, and notable personages (The Adlers, Boris Thoamsevsky, Maurice Shwartz, Shalom Alecheim etc.) Our class will work collaboratively with students in “JS 115  The Golden Tradition: Yiddish Language, Literature and Culture.” Students may enroll in both classes for additional credits, with consent of the instructors.

Course	THTR 315 Survey of Drama: Beckett
Professor	JoAnne Akalaitis
CRN	90314
Schedule	Wed 1:30 -3:50 pm Fisher Perf Arts
Distribution	OLD: B	NEW: Analysis of Art

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Course	THTR 340 Voice in Performance
Professor	Elizabeth Smith
CRN	90319
Schedule	Fr 10:30 – 12:30 pm Fisher Perf Arts
Distribution	OLD: F	NEW: Practicing Arts

2 credits This course is designed for those students who have already had some training in voice and will concentrate on addressing demands which occur in performance such as speaking over underscoring, sustaining dialogue in fights or dances, and developing power and range. Technical exercises will be used to promote coordination of speech and movement.