Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Catching a Glimpse: A Directorial Investigation & Collaboration on PROCEDURE TO EXIT AN ENCLOSED SPACE, JaQuan Keiandre Beachem
Maids: A Resurrection Of Forgotten Women, Isabel Catherine Bennett
Procedure to Exit an Enclosed Space: A Story in Six Parts, Brigid Nell Boll
Choose an Eye, Rebecca Eve Capper
They-See-(desi)-Mac-N-Cheese, Emily Parks Claypoole
Unpacking The Dumb Waiter: A Character Analysis and Personal Reflection, Harrison Sebring Forman
Tucan Diet Lies, Self-Reflection, and Choice, Leilah Katherine Franklin
Light in the Darkness: An Analysis of the Design and Creation of MAIDS, Anna Drew Garrett-Larsen
CAN WE KEEP IT? How to Make a Best Friend, Brynn Marie Gilchrist
Drink Coke. Don’t Steal Movies: A Queer in Pursuit of Laughter and Empathy, Ariel Violet Gillooly
Procedure to Exit an Enclosed Space: The Evolution of the Pussy Cat, Rebecca Nicole Glasbrener
Harold Pinter and the Theatre of the Strange, Maxwell Garrard Green
You're the One That I Want, Kirsten Sylvia Harvey
Tucan Diet, Alex Paul Koditschek
Can We Keep It? - A Multimedia Exploration of Sleepover Culture, Anya Simon Kopischke
Dreams and Stories of the Common Child, Evan Lucas Pallor
Type Z, Zazie Elena Ray-Trapido
From the River to the Sea, Jordana Sylvia Nell Rubenstein-Edberg
Miranda: An Exploration of The Tempest, Lauren Michelle Russo
You're The One That I Want, Anna Celia Jane Sinreich
They-See-(Desi)-Mac-N-Cheese: A Conversation to Make the Invisible Visible, Satwik Srikrishnan
Maids: A Retelling of a Retelling of "The Odyssey", Emma Katharine Webster
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Lust Gluttony Greed, Abigail Adele Matthews Adler
The River of Blood: An analysis of the process and production of FURY and the Senior Theater Festival INFERNO, Aleah Willa Black
Pawns: Value Perception, Need Diversity, Soraya Jo-Anna Cain
Limbo Limbo Limbo, Lauren Nicole D'Ottavio
Bobok: A Theater Piece Exploring Heresy, the Afterlife, and the Art of Translating Text to the Stage, Eileen Marie Goodrich
The Marriage between Fury and Fervor: An analysis of the performance FURY, as part of the Senior Project Theater Festival, Inferno, Michael Anna Gray
The Fish Show: An Experiment in Collaborative Theater, Ricardo Antonio Irizarry
Entrapment: An Exploration of Blackness in the Theater World, Imani Jones
Fraud:Just Fraud, Kedian Elizabeth Keohan
Limbo Limbo Limbo: At Least We're Not Getting Stabbed in the Eye, Ayla Diane Miller
Fraud: Just Fraud, Reeves David Ion Morris-Stan
O Langu, Cullan Joseph Powers
Lust, Gluttony, Greed: A Collaborative Piece about Four Women in Hell, Leah Katherine Rabinowitz
LUST GLUTTONY GREED; A Collaborative Piece Exploring Modern Systems of Power and Dante's Inferno, Eleanor Parker Robb
The Fish Show: A Meditation on Violence, Ethan Isaac Rogers
The Vestibule or, Six Ways Death is a Dying Art, Dana Anne Shimkoski
Adaptation as Transmutation: Shakespeare in Orson Welles "Voodoo" Macbeth and Kurosawa's Throne of Blood, Ruby Elizabeth Smyth Meyers-McEnroe
Tired/Barren/Alone T>B>A : A performance by one man for the world., Jean-Paul Demitri Zuhur
Projects from 2015
Holy Thieves, Jordan Brooks Bodwell
Conversations of this River Valley, Cydney Cathalene Chase-Bartell
Just Another Block: A Solo Performance Piece on the U.S. Incarceration System, Marisol Grace Parker Crawford
Vincent: A Solo Performance, Patrick Cuervo Dwyer
A King's a King: a Brechtian retelling of Shakespeare's Macbeth, Omar Yokoe Forrest
Puff Piece Pass by The Paranoid Prophet, Michael Cary Kulukundis
In the Mind of the Manipulated Man: A Reflection on A King's a King: A Brecht Retelling of Macbeth, Michael Lazarus
Without Prospero: A Staged Reading and Continuation on Shakespeare's 'The Tempest', Samuel T. Robotham
Pasiphae, Ezra San Millan
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
TRUE STORIES: RECOGNIZING HUMANITY THROUGH CHARACTER-BASED THEATER, Harrison Benson Beer
I'm Not Finished — Done, Dimitri A. Cacouris
Changes, Pauline Hope Chalamet
This Is Why We Play: A pilot program in drama training at the Anderson Center for Autism, Kathleen B. Edery
The Funny Thing About Blood, Mary Elizabeth Gilbert
Things I Never Told My Father, Eric Benjamin Gordon
Something Something, Sebastian Ervar Gutierrez
Pool Party, Benjamin Walter Hopkins
After/Before: a devised theatrical exploration of memory and Alzheimer's, Sean Byrum Leo
A Reflection on the Creation and Realization of: Bleeding Chunks from Sarah Kane's Cleansed, Jacqueline Christine Reddington
Stuff, A solo performance, Konstantinos Rizos
The First Rule of Camp Club: A Case Study of Jack Smith, John Kelly and Jack Ferver, Victoria Teresa Rulle
LADY M: A Silhouette, Rebecca Victoria Silbert
Seussnoff Presents: A Daisy for the Crazy, Claire Mercedes Thompson
Senior Project, Paul S. Weintrob
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Glass Ceilings, Cara Maya Chalk
The Eroticized Neurotic: Envisioning Female Madness in William Shakespeare's 'Hamlet' and Sarah Kane's '4.48 Psychosis', Sonia Clare Feigelson
From Adler to Mumblecore: The New Reality of the New Reality, Schuyler Rishona Helford
Color-Blind Casting: An Equalizing Force or a Failed Experiment?, Imani Elizabeth Jones
Female Specimens and Investigating Playwrights' Intents in Political Plays, Julia Noelle Koerwer
One is Dead, One Dies, and Two Dig: The Four Fools of Hamlet, Sarah Loucks
The Belly of the Whale, Marta Clare McKeown
Bread and Water: A Word on Grief, Hannah Rachel Mitchell
[un]Spoken word(s): A Play, and an Exploration of the Personal Efficacy Of Political Solo-Performance, Sarah Elizabeth Mitchell
Women as a Force in Theater; An examination of the Restoration Period in England, Keaton Ana Josephine Morris-Stan
Peeking Through Fingers: The Artaudian Legacy of Sarah Kane, Sarah Whitney Poor
What Could Have Been: The Transformative Effect of Site-Specific Performance on Space through the Evocation of Memory, Alexander Teale Setzko
HIV/AIDS Awareness Theater in South Africa: The Government, the Institution, and the Individual, Sierra Simone Swann
Devised Theater: Becoming Part of the Cannon, Moriah Langeland Van Cleef
Savage/Love by Sam Shepard and Joseph Chaikin: Senior Project in Directing, Moriah Langeland Van Cleef
The Mind's Menagerie: The Process of Projecting the Mind of a Genius onto the Stage, Matthew Frederick Wilson
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Beckett in Karpp: Fictionalized Autobiography in Krapp's Last Tape, Caleb Carlton Bark
Laughter at Auschwitz: George Tabori’s “Theater der Peinlichkeit” and “Vergangenheitsbewältigung” in Post-War Germany, Leonie F. Bell
Rethinking Representation: Actor and Character in Contemporary Performance, Milo Cramer
Acting Out: The Manifestation and Enactment of Black Identity in Performance, Marlene M. Ditzig
Hijabs, Morgan Green
Lessons Learned: The Use of Iconic Figures in Theatre by Shakespeare, Brecht, and Kushner, Katia Koziara
The Story of Life Before Life Ends and The Universal Appeal of Kyogen Theatre, Andrew Levy
From Repression to Expression: How 'The Duende' Manifests Through Boundary, Marianne Rendon
The Battle For Stanislavski: Stella Adler, Lee Strasberg, The Group Theatre and the System in America, Roisin Maire Taylor
War and Speech: Orality, Aurality, and How Ancient Greek Theatre is Helping Modern Warriors, Madeline Wise
Calderon's Chimera: Seeking Self-Similarity in La Vida Es Sueno, Layla Elizabeth Wolfgang
Theater Outside of the Theater: The Role of Traditional and Non-Traditional Venues in Theatrical Performance, Benjamin Wszalek
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
Activating Community: An Exploration of Transformation in Community-Based and Investigative Theatre, McCambridge Dowd-Whipple
Acting Out: The Influence and Implementation of Theater Theory and Dramatic Technique in the Field of Drama Therapy, Kathleen C. Filson
Co-opting Creation: The Manipulation of Identity Through Kabuki, Marguerite French
What a Performance! Evaluating Authenticity in the Performances of Three High-Profile American Icons, Taylor M. Lambert Mr.
Wilting Flowers: An Exploration of the Metatheatricality in Fernando Arabal's Prison Play And They Put Handcuffs on the Flowers, Rachel R. Marks
Choice, Opportunity and Infinite Possibility: The Development of Devised Theater as a Means of Recreating the Role of the Audience, Molly A. Marx
Part I: How to Read Brecht as a Director and as an Actor: An Exploratory Lecture Part II: Directed How I Learned to Drive by Paula Vogel November 10-13, Zia Affronti Morter