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Maya Lavender's Senior Project In Theater And Performance (Part 3): Reflections From Playtime, Maya E. Lavender

Senior Projects Spring 2023

This project is an exploration of metatheatre in an attempt to understand and portray the feelings surrounding coming of age. Part one was A Play, performed in LUMA theater in fall of 2022. Part two was More Play, performed in the Old Gym in spring of 2023. This is part three, a reflection on my time playing.

Goodbye? Reflections And Stream Of Consciousness On, Underneath And Around The Creation Of “Hello?”, Leonard Shevel Gurevich

Senior Projects Spring 2023

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College.

They Wouldn’T Let Me Perform An Orchiectomy Live On Stage So I Figure This Is The Next Best Thing, Angus I. Kanelong

Senior Projects Spring 2023

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College.

Audience Patina: An Enmeshment Of Architecture And Theater, Alison R. Kane

Senior Projects Spring 2022

This senior project entitled Audience Patina: An Enmeshment of Architecture and Theater explores the interconnections and juxtapositions between environmental topographies, liminal space, and imaginary dreamscapes. The project consists of interdisciplinary research used to create a large-scale installation piece, as well as the direction of the play The Stars Come Out at Night. This installation was created in conversation with the play, which was written by fellow theater department senior, Emily Kaufman-Bell. The play is the essential work that briefed the design around a dreamlike environmental imagery. The design and research explore how space and bodies communicate with each other …

An Artist, Now: Inspired By And Adapted From The Artificial Silk Girl By Irmgard Keun, Jonja L. Merck

Senior Projects Spring 2022

AN ARTIST, NOW is an original musical by Jonja Merck and Laila Perlman inspired by and adapted from The Artificial Silk Girl by Irmgard Keun.

Doris, an 18-year-old woman moves to Berlin to become a star. While directly speaking to the audience, she describes her life in the city, how she is meeting men in the evenings at a bar and strolling through the busy streets. One night at the bar, she meets George, a businessman, and ultimately moves in with him. After a year, Doris is still unable to get onto any stages, George reveals that he has a …

Roomies, Hunter Lucian Lustberg

Senior Projects Spring 2021

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College.

We're Just Soldiers, Adrian S. Costa

Senior Projects Spring 2021

WE’RE JUST SOLDIERS is an original play that follows four white gamers caught during a rare moment of respite as they struggle for survival through the dense forest of a virtual Vietnam-esque battlefield. This moment quickly descends into chaos as the soldiers maneuver questions of identity, agency, and the charge of whiteness in a world surrounded by violence.

Directing Whitewashed And Dismantling Hierarchy, Dmitri Ades-Laurent

Senior Projects Spring 2021

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College.

Who's Afraid Of Peppa Pig: A Transition From Stage To Screen Acting, Timothy Steven Halvorsen

Senior Projects Spring 2021

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College

Suburban Panic: Chaotic Contradictions In Girlhood, Ella Ania Baldwin

Senior Projects Spring 2021

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College.

...And Other Drugs I Haven't Told You About, Tatyana M. Rozetta

Senior Projects Spring 2021

...and other drugs i haven't told you about is an exploration of friendships, family, and the self while blurring the line between the past and the present. Although it is very specific to my own life and stories from my past, it manages to constantly hold a mirror to the audience leaving them feeling full and nostalgic for a time they may have never known.

Give Daddy A Sprinkle Of Peppa: The Untold Truth Of Peppa Pig, Avis Macguffie Zane

Senior Projects Spring 2021

In 1996, six-year-old JonBenèt Ramsey was found strangled to death by a garrot in her family’s Tudor-style mansion. Though suspicion followed the family for years, a perpetrator was never charged. After years of developing DNA sequencing, advanced crime technology, and the relentless court of public opinion that is social media, one might assume that a crime like this could never be covered up in modern day. However in 2020, Peppa Pig was pronounced dead under similarly suspicious circumstances. Her family was exonerated by the Scotland Yard, and yet their story is riddled with inconsistencies. For my senior project, I wrote …

This Is The Knot In My Stomach, Violet Savage

Senior Projects Spring 2020

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College.

This Is The Knot In My Stomach, Macey Clarice Downs

Senior Projects Spring 2020

This is a story about two young women who think they will be friends forever. They learn that forever comes and goes in the blink of an eye. They are not particularly exceptional--they don't shatter any glass ceilings, they make silly mistakes, they never know what to wear to school tomorrow. But we get to watch them do the most exceptional thing any of us will ever do: grow.

This Is The Knot In My Stomach, Cheyenne Crow Conti

Senior Projects Spring 2020

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College.

Our Grandparents/旧识, Yibin Wang

Senior Projects Spring 2020

A Theater and Performance senior project centering on the question of "how can we be more connected to our grandparents through playing them in front of a camera on stage?" Through exploring this question, the actor would present real stories about their grandparents on stage.

8/28 - 12/8, Cluno (Madison) Marie Clark-Bruno

Senior Projects Spring 2020

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College.

Vox Machinal: Voice In The Machine, Payton E. Smith

Senior Projects Spring 2019

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College.

The Master And His Master, Kristýna Petišková

Senior Projects Spring 2019

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College.

Reflections On "The Dreamer Examines His Pillow" - Scene 1, Alexander Mckerrow Cowley Glass

Senior Projects Spring 2018

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College.

Detachment, Discovery, And Failure: An Analysis Of The Process And Production Of The Jewish Wife By Bertolt Brecht, Zoe Wohlfeld

Senior Projects Spring 2018

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College

Color Coded, Kimiyo Raja Helena Bremer

Senior Projects Spring 2018

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College.

His Royal Heinie, Gideon Morris Berger

Senior Projects Spring 2018

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College.

Trapped: A Performance Exploration Of The Illusion Of Confinement, Paul R. Presbrey

Senior Projects Spring 2017

Sometimes we build our own prisons and those prisons go through a crucial stage at which time, outside forces such as other people can help retrieve you from the depths of your own imprisonment. Unfortunately, these outside forces usually end up acting against you, sending a person deeper and deeper into the trap they laid for themselves. These outside forces or people usually do not know that they are contributing to the building of a person’s prison. These people act in direct response to something or even anonymously through things such as surveys. Most of the time people dance around …

Procedure To Exit An Enclosed Space: A Story In Six Parts, Brigid Nell Boll

Senior Projects Spring 2017

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College.

Maids: A Resurrection Of Forgotten Women, Isabel Catherine Bennett

Senior Projects Spring 2017

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College.

Choose An Eye, Rebecca Eve Capper

Senior Projects Spring 2017

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College.

They-See-(Desi)-Mac-N-Cheese, Emily Parks Claypoole

Senior Projects Spring 2017

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College.

Light In The Darkness: An Analysis Of The Design And Creation Of Maids, Anna Drew Garrett-Larsen

Senior Projects Spring 2017

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College.

You're The One That I Want, Kirsten Sylvia Harvey

Senior Projects Spring 2017

A theatrical exploration, that began with “the Diva” and eventually evolved into an examination of the impossibility of being a woman, through the fetishization of the 1978 film, Grease.