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Jim
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Head, MFA Directing |
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The art and
craft of directing are undergoing changes as great as the world
in which we live and attempt to reflect on stage. This program focuses
on preparing students for a professional career now while getting
them ready for to be leaders in a future theatre that is forming
today.
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Explore
directing by assisting professional guest directors
Recent Guest
Artist Directors from New Jersey Shakespeare Festival, Shakespeare
and Company, Black Rep. of St. Louis, off-Broadway
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Study
directing by experiencing what your fellow artists create and by
working with other MFA students
Graduate classes
in lighting design, scene design, dramaturgy, acting, voice, movement
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Learn
about directing from a professional faculty
Recent productions
at Utah Shakespearean Festival, La Mama Etc., national tour for
ClearChannels, inde-pendent film Experience directing on a professional
internship Recent Interns at: Primary Stages in New York; Victory
Gardens, Tony Award winning theatre in Chicago
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Understand
directing by working with guest actors and designers
Recent guests
from Goodman, Chicago Shakespeare, Broadway, Alabama Shakespeare,
The Shakespeare Theatre, Utah Shakespearean Festival
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Expand
your directing by working in
different periods, in different spaces
Project scripts
selected from contemporary and classics Production projects in proscenium,
thrust, and arena stages
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Investigate
directing by directing
Direct a production
every semester leading to assignment in the main season Prepare
for a professional career through a rigorous study of the craft
of directing and by studying the craft of collaborators: designers,
actors and dramaturgs. A combination of classes and produced projects
in differing disciplines, styles, and theatrical spaces broadens
the theatrical vocabulary and focuses on the collaborative process.
Special attention is paid to the evocative reading of scripts and
to the visual language that is such an important component of the
director's language.
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are supplemented by introduction to the profession through familiarity
with the working practices and contracts of the professional guilds,
such as the AEA and SSDC. The professionally active faculty serve
as mentors; the productions they work on beyond the university are
used as applied examples of theatre practices. This process is furthered
by the required internship during one semester of the final year of
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Year
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Year
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Graduate Directing
Lighting Design
Script Analysis for Directors and Designers
Assistant Directing
Directing Seminar
Scenography
Script Analysis for Directors and Actors
Assistant Directing
Practicum Directing Project
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Graduate Acting
Art History
Shakespeare or other Dramatic Literature
Practicum Directing Project
Acting, Alexander or Voice
Elective as decided
Shakespeare or other Dramatic Literature
Practicum Directing Project |
Elective as
decided
Combat or Commedia
Terminal Main Stage Directing Project
Professional Internship
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