Course	THTR 101 A Introduction to Acting
Professor	Lynn Hawley
CRN	17247
Schedule	Mon Wed 10:30 - 11:50 am Fisher PAC Studio North
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 B Introduction to Acting
Professor	Naomi Thornton
CRN	17252
Schedule	Th 3:20 -5:20 pm Fisher PAC Theater Studio
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 103 Acting Company
Professor	Jonathan Rosenberg
CRN	17409
Schedule	Tu Th 1:00 -2:20 pm Fisher PAC Theater Studio
Distribution	OLD: F	NEW: Practicing Arts

3 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	Jean Churchill
CRN	17255
Schedule	Tu 4:30 -5:50 pm Fisher PAC Theater Studio
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	17257
Schedule	Tu Fr 1:25 -2:25 pm Fisher PAC Theater Studio
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	17258
Schedule	Tu Fr 2:55 -3:55 pm Fisher PAC Theater Studio
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 A Alexander Technique I
Professor	Judith Youett
CRN	17249
Schedule	Mon 9:00 - 10:20 am Fisher PAC Studio North
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.

Course	THTR 141 B Alexander Technique I
Professor	Judith Youett
CRN	17267
Schedule	Fr 9:00 - 10:20 am Fisher PAC Studio North
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.

Course	THTR 142 Alexander Technique II
Professor	Judith Youett
CRN	17250
Schedule	Mon 10:30 - 11:50 am Fisher PAC Studio North
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 207A Playwrighting I
Professor	Dominic Taylor
CRN	17677
Schedule	Tu 9:30 - 11:50 am Fisher P. 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 upper-college students only. On-line registration

Course	THTR 207B Playwrighting I
Professor	Chiori Miyagawa
CRN	17266
Schedule	Fr 3:00 -5:20 pm Fisher P. 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 upper-college students only. On-line registration

Course	THTR 208 Playwrighting II
Professor	Dominic Taylor
CRN	17412
Schedule	Mon 3:00 -5:20 pm Fisher P. 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. Prerequisite: Playwriting I or Theatrical Adaptations. On-line registration

Course	THTR 209 Scene Study
Professor	Lynn Hawley
CRN	17248
Schedule	Mon 1:00 -4:00 pm Fisher PAC Theater Studio
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 209 Scene Study
Professor	Jonathan Rosenberg
CRN	17253
Schedule	Tu Th 10:30 - 11:50 am Fisher PAC Theater Studio
Distribution	OLD: F	NEW: Practicing Arts

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 210 History of Theater II
Professor	Jean Wagner
CRN	17410
Schedule	Tu Th 10:30 - 11:50 am OLIN 202
Distribution	OLD: F	NEW: Analysis of Art

4 credits This course looks at the major periods of dramatic literature, from the renaissance to the twentieth century. Plays will be read with particular reference to historical context and dramatic convention informing theater practice during these periods. Along with the plays, we’ll look at critical and theoretical essays that elucidate these social and aesthetic conditions. Playwrights will include Moliere, Ibsen, Chekhov, Brecht and Beckett. On-line registration

Course	THTR 215 Physical Comedy
Professor	James Calder
CRN	17259
Schedule	Wed 9:30 - 12:30 pm Fisher PAC Theater Studio
Distribution	OLD: F	NEW: Practicing Arts

2 credits Beginning with exercises in broad physicality, balance, rhythm, discovery, physical mask and surprise, this class explores what about the individual student is unique and funny. When we begin to forget what is an appropriate response, and imagine what we would be like if we were never socialized, we begin to discover “the clown” that lives in each of us. By embracing the archetypes of childhood and reclaiming the “internal response” without the diminishing filter of socialization, we start to lose the inhibitions that block us from being purely expressive. This class encourages openness, invention, playfulness, generosity, sensitivity, and courage

Prerequisite: Introduction to Acting

Course	THTR 227 Neutral Masks
Professor	Shelley Wyant
CRN	17256
Schedule	Tu 9:00 - 12:00 pm Fisher PAC Studio North
Distribution	OLD: F	NEW: Practicing Arts

2 credits The roots of this work with the mask come from a diverse system of traditions including the Balinese, the great teachers and theorists Pierre LeFevre, Michel St. Denis, Jaques LeCoq and Francis Delsarte. Neutral Mask is an exploration of the world of the mask and all the freedom inherent to performers within that world. We discover the essence of transformation by using the tools of breath and focus. Students learn to identify the elements that contribute to physical freedom through the four stages of man and mythological stories.On-line registration

Course	THTR 231 Voice and Verse I
Professor	Elizabeth Smith
CRN	17263
Schedule	Fr 10:30 - 12:30 pm Fisher PAC Theater Studio
Distribution	OLD: F	NEW: Practicing Arts

2 credits Verse is a significant part of drama and learning to interpret it and speak it is essential for the performer. This course deals with verse from the great poets and dramatists, with an emphasis on Shakespeare. Prerequisite: THTR 131

Course	THTR 303 Directing Seminar
Professor	Jean Wagner
CRN	17261
Schedule	Wed 1:00 -4:00 pm Fisher PAC Studio North
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. On-line registration

Course	THTR 307 Advanced Acting
Professor	James Calder
CRN	17260
Schedule	Wed 1:00 -4:00 pm Fisher PAC Theater Studio
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. Prerequisites: Intro to Acting and Scene Study. Maximum enrollment: 12 students.

Course	THTR 307 Advanced Acting
Professor	Naomi Thornton
CRN	17262
Schedule	Th 1:00 -3:00 pm Fisher PAC Studio North
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. Prerequisites: Intro to Acting and Scene Study. Maximum enrollment: 12 students.

Course	THTR 310B Survey of Drama: Musical Theater
Professor	Stephanie Fleischmann
CRN	17539
Schedule	Wed 9:30 - 11:50 am Fisher P. Arts
Distribution	OLD: A	NEW: Analysis of Art

This course will examine the evolution of the musical as a dynamic force in American theater. A vibrant theatricality and frequently, a veneer of nostalgia for a simpler past are inherent to the form. But more often than not, underneath the entertaining surface, lie complex social and political implications. Within the frame of a larger historical context, we will view the history of the musical – from its roots in European ballad opera, and the quintessentially American forms of minstrelsy, vaudeville, burlesque, and venue, to the book musical and beyond. We will discuss works by Kurt Weill, Jerome Kern, Rogers & Hammerstein, Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim, and others including Gershwin, Comden & Green, and Cole Porter. We will also investigate the work of contemporary artists making music theater outside the Broadway idiom-ranging from Robert Wilson to Meredith Monk to the Wooster Group. The course will look at the intricacies involved in making music theater as well as the dramaturgy of various song/scene structures and the craft of lyrics, or how words sing. Students will explore how they can apply their understanding of the musical and its history to theater of their own making. Source material will include: recordings, videos, book/lyrics, interviews, biography, and criticism. Students will present projects in class, write papers, participate in analytical discussions, and delve into a handful of creative exercises to gain an understanding of the complexity of the collaborative process that is at the core of making musical theater.

Course	THTR 318 Visual Imagination for the Modern Stage
Professor	Narelle Sissons
CRN	17251
Schedule	Mon 1:00 -4:00 pm Fisher PAC Studio North
Distribution	OLD: F	NEW: Practicing Arts

4 credits A course taught by leading designers and directors in the field. It examines the explosive prominence of visionary visual ideas on the stage in the past 30 years, the emergence of a new form of collaboration between directors and designers and the inclusion of the new media on the stage. This course is required for upper-college theater students.

Course	THTR 320 Theater Salon
Professor	JoAnne Akalaitis
CRN	17413
Schedule	Th 4:30 -7:30 pm Fisher P. Arts
Distribution	OLD: F	NEW:

“salon: an assembly of guests in a drawing room, esp. such an assembly consisting of leaders in art.”

Theater salon is an assembly of students in Prof. Akalaitis’ apartment with leaders in the field of theater, directors, actors, designers and playwrights. Each week a reading is assigned to students and the guest artist for discussion (along with discussion of the artist’s work). In the spirit of true salon, an early dinner is served. The readings will be rigorous and eclectic, and not necessarily about theater. Besides dramatic literature some reading might include George Steiner, Calvino, Artaud, Kantor, Benjamin, Foucault. The discussions will have a vast and lively range, including theater, architecture, Futurism and sports. At least one museum visit. Writing is required.