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Galatea Erupted (2024), Ashton Doll Apr 2024

Galatea Erupted (2024), Ashton Doll

Season 2023-2024

No abstract provided.


My Dead Boyfriend Is A Robot (2024), Preston Crowder Apr 2024

My Dead Boyfriend Is A Robot (2024), Preston Crowder

Season 2023-2024

No abstract provided.


Peerless (2024), Jiehae Park Apr 2024

Peerless (2024), Jiehae Park

Season 2023-2024

No abstract provided.


Ancestra (2024), Holly Holsinger, Chris Szajbert Feb 2024

Ancestra (2024), Holly Holsinger, Chris Szajbert

Season 2023-2024

No abstract provided.


Falling Westward (2024), Graciela Fernandez Feb 2024

Falling Westward (2024), Graciela Fernandez

Season 2023-2024

No abstract provided.


Pipeline (2023), Dominique Morisseau Dec 2023

Pipeline (2023), Dominique Morisseau

Season 2023-2024

No abstract provided.


Cabaret (2023), Joe Masteroff Nov 2023

Cabaret (2023), Joe Masteroff

Season 2023-2024

No abstract provided.


Stonewallin' (2023), Kari Barclay Apr 2023

Stonewallin' (2023), Kari Barclay

Season 2022-2023

No abstract provided.


Calypso (2023), Jordan Muschler Apr 2023

Calypso (2023), Jordan Muschler

Season 2022-2023

No abstract provided.


Sideways Stories From Wayside School (2023), John Olive, Louis Sachar Feb 2023

Sideways Stories From Wayside School (2023), John Olive, Louis Sachar

Season 2022-2023

No abstract provided.


Ophelia: A Prism (2023), Mieko Gavia Feb 2023

Ophelia: A Prism (2023), Mieko Gavia

Season 2022-2023

No abstract provided.


Societal Restriction And Creative Liberation: Aphra Behn, Or, And Finding Freedom Through And Within The Creative Process, Anire Kim Amoda Jan 2023

Societal Restriction And Creative Liberation: Aphra Behn, Or, And Finding Freedom Through And Within The Creative Process, Anire Kim Amoda

Honors Papers

No abstract provided.


Or, (2022), Liz Duffy Adams Dec 2022

Or, (2022), Liz Duffy Adams

Season 2022-2023

No abstract provided.


The Practice And Purpose Of Adaptation Of Classical Texts, Cassandra J.S. Gutterman-Johns Jan 2022

The Practice And Purpose Of Adaptation Of Classical Texts, Cassandra J.S. Gutterman-Johns

Honors Papers

This paper focuses on two adaptations of classical texts: Off the Rails, Reinholz’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure, and AtGN, Howard’s adaptation of Sophocles’ Antigone, and examines the ways in which these plays both replicate the cycles created by the original texts and seek to break from them. Taking theater as an inherently repetitive practice, this paper pulls from many sources to develop a vocabulary for discussing theatrical adaptations, then applies it to these two case studies to demonstrate that each uses a variety of strategies to create a new narrative. Whether a theater-maker is building new meaning into …


Moving Honestly - Pangalay Performance, National Identity, And Practice-As-Research, Kara Elena Nepomuceno Jan 2020

Moving Honestly - Pangalay Performance, National Identity, And Practice-As-Research, Kara Elena Nepomuceno

Honors Papers

Previous research analyzes the legacies of various Philippine dances in the United States. This project seeks to describe the growing impact of the dance form pangalay, given its rising popularity among Philippine performing arts groups and among individual artists in the diaspora. Pangalay’s sustained, curvilinear style supports Filipino American dancers’ needs for physical well-being, relationship to colonized land, and expression of diasporic culture. Yet when pangalay is framed as a unifying dance aesthetic of Filipino identity, it obscures ongoing internal oppression within the Philippines as Christianized upper classes embrace the dance form yet cohere wealth by displacing Muslim groups.

To …


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 Jan 2020

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.


Songs From My Mother's Seashores (New Works Festival 2019), Oberlin College Theater Apr 2019

Songs From My Mother's Seashores (New Works Festival 2019), Oberlin College Theater

Season 2018-2019

No abstract provided.


Same Same (New Works Festival 2019), Hanna Shykind Mar 2019

Same Same (New Works Festival 2019), Hanna Shykind

Season 2018-2019

No abstract provided.


The Brothers Size (2019), Tarell Alvin Mccraney Mar 2019

The Brothers Size (2019), Tarell Alvin Mccraney

Season 2018-2019

No abstract provided.


What We Look Like (2019), B.J. Tindal Feb 2019

What We Look Like (2019), B.J. Tindal

Season 2018-2019

Dramaturgy by Maansi Sahay Seth


Rapture, Blister, Burn (2019), Gina Gionfriddo Feb 2019

Rapture, Blister, Burn (2019), Gina Gionfriddo

Season 2018-2019

No abstract provided.


Cabaret (2018), Joe Masteroff Dec 2018

Cabaret (2018), Joe Masteroff

Season 2018-2019

No abstract provided.


Copenhagen (2018), Michael Frayn Nov 2018

Copenhagen (2018), Michael Frayn

Season 2018-2019

No abstract provided.


The Glass Menagerie (2018), Tennessee Williams Nov 2018

The Glass Menagerie (2018), Tennessee Williams

Season 2018-2019

No abstract provided.


For Colored Girls (2017), Ntozake Shange Apr 2017

For Colored Girls (2017), Ntozake Shange

Season 2016-2017

No abstract provided.


Melancholy Play (2017), Sarah Ruhl Mar 2017

Melancholy Play (2017), Sarah Ruhl

Season 2016-2017

No abstract provided.


Denial (2017), Peter Sagal Feb 2017

Denial (2017), Peter Sagal

Season 2016-2017

No abstract provided.


Twelfth Night (2017), William Shakespeare Jan 2017

Twelfth Night (2017), William Shakespeare

Season 2016-2017

No abstract provided.


Crafting Wendla Bergmann In Spring Awakening, Amy R. Weintraub Jan 2017

Crafting Wendla Bergmann In Spring Awakening, Amy R. Weintraub

Honors Papers

This paper explores one actor's approach to the role of Wendla Bergmann in Steven Sater and Duncan Sheik's musical adaptation of Frank Wedekind's Spring Awakening. It will address issues of text analysis, staging, character development, vocal performance, and mental health.


Spring Awakening (2016), Steven Sater Dec 2016

Spring Awakening (2016), Steven Sater

Season 2016-2017

No abstract provided.