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Citizen Scrooge Program, Collin College

Theatre Programs

Program for Citizen Scrooge.

Columbus State University Honors College: Senior Theses, Fall 2020/Spring 2021, Abigail Abernathy, Micah Arnholt, Joshua Butler, Ashlyn Dewberry, Vivian Duncan, Shannon Eshman, Macy Frazier, Bailey Gaines, Meenal Joshi, Brenna Kincaid, Taylor Lewis, Molli Mcginnis, Elijah Neundorfer, Erin Perry, Grace Pippas, Elise Rhinebolt, Caitlin Schwartz, Tatseyana Taylor, Lyndi Whetzel

Senior Theses from the Honors College

This is a collection of senior theses written by honors students at Columbus State University during the Fall 2020 and Spring 2021 semesters.

Titles:

- "Comparison of Histological Techniques to Determine Intersex Prevalence and Severity in Testes of Largemouth Bass *Micropterus salmoides) and Spotted Bass (Micropterus punctulatus) From the Chattahoochee River, U.S.A" , by Abigail Abernathy

- "The Applications of Space Syntax Theory and Depthmap Technology to Problems of Race and Income Inequality in Midtown, Columbus ,GA" , by Micah Arnholt

- "Utilizing the Dalcroze Method in the Secondary Choral Classroom" , by Joshua Butler

- "A Tale of Two …

Postcard, Uncle Bends: A Home-Cooked Negro Narrative At Studio@620 In St. Petersburg, Florida, Studio At 620

Postcard Collection

A promotional postcard for the virtual performance of Uncle Bends: A Home-Cooked Negro Narrative by Bob Devin Jones, streamed live on Facebook. The performance presents a series of character studies from African American life, told through storytelling and music. The event was part of The Studio@620’s efforts to connect with the community during the COVID-19 lockdown.

Direction And Technical Supervision Of "By The Water", Brian Mcmanimon

All Graduate Projects

This project documents the conceptualization, research, implementation and reflection of the production process of By the Water at Wellesley High School from October 2018 through January 2019 by Brian McManimon and the students involved in By the Water. The document includes character and visual production research, historical context and significance, and the evaluation of the play as a vehicle for speaking to larger social issues beyond the local community, as well as documentation of the production period and post-production evaluation.

Toward A Culturally Sensitive Approach To Student Centered Accent And Dialect Coursework - Thea 403: Advanced Voice - Accents & Dialects – A Peer Review Of Teaching Project Benchmark Portfolio, Ann Marie Pollard

UNL Faculty Course Portfolios

A benchmark portfolio for Theatre 403: Advanced Voice (Accents and Dialects). This portfolio describes considerations taken in developing a new course design, optimizing course assignments, implementing a perspective which moves toward the decolonization of the acting classroom, and integrating heightened awareness of cultural sensitivity with practical, skills-based learning. The author provides context around the course, its objectives, and its structure. Samples of student perspectives are provided within an in-depth look at an in-class conversation about diversity, inclusion, and practicing advocacy for appropriate casting choices. The reflection includes a conclusion that, while moving toward a destandardization of content has its challenges, …

My Hall. A Stage Play And My Hall: Excavating, Shaping And Sharing The Memory Of Hale School’S Memorial Hall Through A Site-Specific, Staged Performance. An Exegesis, Julia Jarel

Theses: Doctorates and Masters

This thesis provides a case study which investigates the notion that a building which is historically and architecturally significant to a community holds that community’s memories within its walls. It argues that, in collaboration with the members of that community, these memories can be excavated, revealed and woven together to form a piece of site-specific theatre which can then be performed by and for those community members. It proposes that this intergenerational, creative collaboration may enhance the community members’ understanding and appreciation of the significance of the building, its place in the community and their place within it.

The site …

Anything You Can Use, I Can Use Better: Examining The Contours Of Fair Use As An Affirmative Defense For Theatre Artists, Creators, And Producers, Benjamin Reiser

Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal

Broadway is booming. In a post-Hamilton world, ticket sales and attendance records for the commercial theatre industry continue to break season after season. At the same time (and perhaps not so coincidentally), litigation against theatre artists, creators, and producers has surged, especially in the realm of copyright infringement. Many theatre professionals accused of infringement in recent years have employed the doctrine of fair use—codified at 17 U.S.C. § 107—as an affirmative defense against such claims. This Note explores cases involving theatre professionals in which fair use was examined and contends that they collectively reflect broader historical trends in fair …

"A Performing Artist's Journey...Begins" (Senior Showcase), Jennifer Boswell

Williams Honors College, Honors Research Projects

As a Theatre major, my sponsor and I decided that my Honors Research Project would be a one-person, twenty-minute performance. Originally, this showcase was going to be a live theatre event. Due to coronavirus and social distancing, I had to adjust and adapt as I transformed my piece into a virtual performance.

In choosing the content that would be performed, I carefully selected pieces that represented my journey as a performing artist the past four years. I wanted to showcase my growth and range as a performer. I chose one monologue from each of the six MainStage Theatre productions I …

Sarah Kane's Post-Christian Spirituality In Cleansed, Elba Sanchez

All Master's Theses

The existing scholarship on the work of British playwright Sarah Kane mostly focuses on exploring the use of extreme acts of violence in her plays. However, few scholars like Dr. Graham Saunders and Anabelle Singer can trace it back to the rejection of her Christian beliefs during her adolescence. This thesis explores how Kane used violence and images of impalement, dismemberment, and cross-dressing in her third play, Cleansed as a vehicle to examine and validate her notions of gender and sexuality as well as her developing post-Christian spirituality. Through the critical textual analysis of Cleansed in conjunction with scholarly literature …

The Costume Design Process For The Phantom Tollbooth, Chloe Elizabeth Cappuccilli

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

This thesis will give an account of the costume design process for The Phantom Tollbooth at West Virginia University. Specifically, the responsibilities of the role of Costume Designer, from initial meetings to final production. This document will include research about child psychology that inspired the primary design process, specifically the influence of children’s dreams, and their relationship to toys. This information was utilized to create designs explicitly for children’s theatre audiences. I will present and evaluate the costume designs, including the design evolution until the final production. Detailing the process of costume construction while working with a costume shop. Visual …

Mother Is How I Got Down Pat, Kyrae Dawaun

Theses and Dissertations

This essay gathers concepts of matriarchal studies, theatre and hospitality in thinking beyond the contemporary venue of painting. Recognizing the limits of fine arts, as it is today, a product of a patriarchal, capitalistic societal structure, in its service to an inclusive, public sphere, my work is insistent on the value of installation. Accessibility to space (the art space), language, and the right to politics are goals inspiring the evolved features in my studio practice. The use of word is central in my study of our human behaviors as they can be best modeled according to the appreciation of mother(ing). …

Transforming Trauma: Performing The Works Of William Shakespeare As Rehabilitation For Incarcerated Individuals, Elyssa Mersdorf

Theses and Dissertations

This paper is the summation of my research and exploration into the history, social ramifications, and individual psychological impact of incarceration and the use of theatre as a vehicle of rehabilitation. Throughout my studies, I encountered evidence in the forms of personal accounts from theatre practitioners, scholarly articles, inmate testimonials, and historical journals regarding the success of such carceral theatre programs in the reformation of the prisoners they serve. How have past prison procedures and strategies hindered or helped inmates in their preparation for their transition from life in a penitentiary to reintroduction into larger society? What are the financial …

A Meisner Warm-Up: Advancing The Technique, Andrew Bryce

Theses and Dissertations

Why is there no warm-up for the Meisner technique? Why do standard vocal warm-ups not actually prepare the actor for performance? This thesis seeks to remedy both of these issues in 21st century actor training. It does so by creating a warm-up for the Meisner technique that will also prepare actors’ voice, body, and presence. This warm-up was formed by combining Meisner repetition exercises and the Miller Voice Method. The final warm-up was presented as a workshop for actors at the 2020 Southeastern Theatre Conference.

To Love Is Human: Leonid Zorin's A Warsaw Melody Considering Concepts Love And Fate In Russian Culture Reflected In Its Theatre Tradition, Christine Louise Impara

Honors Papers

Concept and process for a director's capstone in theatre on A Warsaw Melody by Leonid Zorin.

A Poetics Of Violence: Representations Of Violence As Storytelling And World-Building Tools Of The Theater, Richard Gilbert

Dissertations

This dissertation explores how representations of violence do dramaturgical work in theatrical production. Playwrights write scenes of violence, and directors and designers stage them, with specific dramaturgical goals in mind. The project of this work is to develop a theoretical framework for understanding how productions use representations of violence. Ideally, that framework will be of use both to critics seeking to analyze productions with violence and to practitioners who want to more consciously shape their own use of violence.

Representations of violence create a sudden change in the audience's affective experience of the fictional world. I call that sudden change …

The Other Side Of The Door: The Art Of Compassion In Policing, Rachel Parish, Jack J. Cambria

DRI Press

The Other Side of the Door is an account of an extraordinary experiment by a remarkable group, jointly headed by contemporary artist Rachel Parish and Jack Cambria, the longtime commander of the New York Police Department's elite Hostage Negotiation Team. The group also included law enforcement professionals and students, performance poets, an emergency medicine physician, conflict management experts, a sociologist and two psychologists.

With the unprecedented combination of viewpoints and talents the group set out to create a new approach to police training form emotional competence. They learned as much from what did not work as from what did. Both …

Have A Good One: A Writer’S Search For Place, Rafael Gallegos

Theatre & Dance ETDs

In this personal essay I will summarize my creative journey as a writer throughout my time in the Dramatic Writing program at the University of New Mexico. I will explore how the notion of home has shaped me and my work, focusing on my childhood in Lubbock, Texas, my theatrical coming of age in New York City, and my return to Albuquerque in search of my personal voice. I will present two works that illustrate my maturation as a dramatist and my focus on community and place as thematic throughlines. Have a Good One is a play set in a …

Theatre As An Intervention For Empathy Development Among Undergraduate Students, Jonathan Stewart

Dissertations, 2014-2019

Empathy is the ability feel into, or put oneself in the place of another. It is the ability to walk in someone else’s shoes. Studies have shown that this ability is decreasing among today’s college students and on the rise as a desired trait for today’s leaders. This dilemma provides an interesting opportunity to explore how institutions of higher education can help develop the leaders of tomorrow by increasing empathy among students. Specifically, this research explores theatre as an intervention for empathy development among college students.

Theatre, as a program of study, is unique within the college experience in that …

The Healing Power Of The Arts - Drama Therapy And The Use Of Theatre In The Treatment Of Trauma, Brooklyn Snyder

Student Scholar Symposium Abstracts and Posters

Theatre is an incredibly valuable therapeutic tool. In this thesis, I explore the ways in which trauma can reshape individuals lives, both cognitively and physically, impeding their sense of self, ability to trust, engagement, and many other seemingly ordinary aspects of day to day life that those of us unaffected by trauma take for granted. Additionally, I cover how employing theatrical tools, like improvisation and role play, can act as a beneficial treatment option for those who have suffered a traumatic past. Drama therapy allows individuals to reconnect with their bodies and their minds, gain new perspectives on their experiences, …

For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is Enuf Poster [2019], University Of Southern Maine Department Of Theatre

Posters 2019-2020 Season

Poster from the University of Southern Maine production of For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow is Enuf.

Dimensions: 8" x 13"

Stage Management 101 And 102, Erin Teaster

Undergraduate Honors Theses

This is me comparing my first experience as a stage-manager to my second experience as a stage-manager. I learned more during my first time around then my second.

Developing Literacy In A Rehearsal Setting: Matilda The Musical, Andrew Tribe

Master's Theses

Literacy skills and performing arts skills can work together in tandem to further the educational and personal development of young people. The goal of this thesis is to explore how students will tackle a musical that at its core, is about growing up with ideologies change over time and how students can implement literacy skills in the rehearsal process. For the title character of Matilda the Musical, her personal growth and imagination is ignited by books and literacy. The production offers an opportunity for students to understand the importance and transferable value of literacy through the rehearsal process and final …

Lindsey, Ian-Meredythe, Zackary Caron

Querying the Past: LGBTQ Maine Oral History Project Collection

Ian-Meredythe Lindsey moved around often during their childhood due to their parents being transferred for jobs. They lived in Oregon, Colorado, and finally Maine. Ian-Meredythe identifies as a non-binary transgender individual who considers themselves pansexual. Ian-Meredythe speaks in depth about their experiences with the erasure of themselves due to their gender identity and sexuality due to those not fitting within the gender-binary. Ian-Meredythe also focused on their experiences within the theatre, as they see very little room for non-binary individuals and storylines within the mainstream theatre productions. Ian-Meredythe focused on their involvement with Equality Maine, as well as their own …

Mini-Actors, Mega-Stages: Examining The Use Of Theatre Among Children And Youth In U.S. Evangelical Megachurches, Carla Elisha Lahey

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

How do children and youth first encounter the performing arts? While schools may stand out as an obvious answer, a recent study conducted by the U.S. Department of Education shows that the percentage of public schools offering theatre classes dropped at both the primary and secondary level from 2000-2010 (Brenchley). Yet, even as arts offerings experience a decline in some public schools, many students are being introduced to performance through another venue – the evangelical megachurch.

Since the birth of the church growth movement in the 1970s, megachurches (defined as Protestant congregations that average at least 2,000 weekly attendees) have …

Miss Bennet Christmas At Pemberley (Program)

Theatre Programs and Posters

Performed November 14-16, 2019 at 7 p.m. in the Ulrey Performing Arts Center.

Cast:
Mary Bennet: Chloe Hoofman
Arthur de Bourgh: Jonah Clifton
Elizabeth Darcy: Julie Goddard
Fitzwilliam Darcy: David Clark
Jane Bingley: Caroline Anderson
Charles Bingley: Ben Hendrix
Lydia Wickham: Josie Holman
Anne de Bourgh: Jenni Hankins
Butler: Hayden Bailey
Maids: Corinne Tabor, Lydia SunderRaj

This Is Me: Anxiety And Depression Awareness Event, Stephanie Cotrone

Honors Projects

College and life are stressful, but they don't have to be. We've all been in that place where it feels like life is caving in and there's nowhere else to turn, but it does get better. This event brings awareness to mental illnesses common on college campuses and in the community. There will be engaging and interactive activities to learn about anxiety & depression, and healthy ways to cope through music, art, theatre, amusement parks, learning, reading, and more. Performances by the Humanities Troupe and testimonies by current students who have had experience dealing with mental illness before or who …

Silent Sky (November 6-9, 2019), Lauren Gunderson

Student Theatre Programs

Program for Silent Sky (November 6-9, 2019).

To view the photos from this production of Silent Sky , please click here.

For The Love Of The Nightingale Poster [2019], University Of Southern Maine Department Of Theatre

Posters 2019-2020 Season

Poster from the University of Southern Maine production of For the Love of the Nightingale.

Dimensions: 8" x 13"

Center For Art & Theater News, Georgia Southern University

Center for Art & Theater (Archived)

• 'All Things at Once' visiting artist exhibition opens on Statesboro Campus

Matilda: The Musical (2019 Program)

Theatre Programs and Posters

Performed on October 18-19, 2019, at 8 p.m. in the Benson Auditorium as part of the Homecoming festivities.

Cast:
Matilda Wormwood: Rebecca Light
Miss Agatha Trunchbull: Laura Eads
Miss Honey: Lydia Black
Mr. Wormwood: Drew Holley
Mrs. Wormwood: Ava Galyean
Michael Wormwood/Orderly/Ensemble: Matthew Floyd
Mrs. Phelps: Shelby Beasley
Bruce: Holden Montgomery
Lavender: Chantel Ceaser
The Escapologist: Marcus Neely
The Acrobat: Mackenzie Turney
Doctor/Mechanic: Carson Lester
Rudolpho/Child: Justice Laws
Sergei/Parent/Ensemble: Timothy Holloway
Cook/Nurse: Sara Arbuckle
Henchman 1/Parent/Ensemble: Antonio Montez
Henchman 2/Parent/Ensemble: Parker Skinner
Children's Entertainer/Henchmen 3/Ensemble: Keller Montgomery
Child/Ensemble: Sydney Marie Adams
Child/Ensemble: Tyler Adams
Parent/Child/Ensemble: Madison Ceurter
Child/Ensemble: Olivia Dunn …