Students pursuing study with our department will be provided with a theatre curriculum and a production environment which encompasses the following goals. These goals, established by the faculty and achieved only through student commitment to the learning process, are meant to provide students preparing for a life in theatre with a solid foundation on which to build. Continual examination of these goals allow for changes to keep our program on the leading edge of theatre education.
Goal One: Students will recognize the creative imagination and impulse and identify its relationship to artistic collaboration, standards, judgments, ethics and discipline from the actor’s point of view.
- Students will recognize and apply techniques to free voice, body, mind and emotions; they will apply voice, body, mind and emotions to inhabit a role.
- Students will apply historical and literary research to acting.
- Students will explore the business of acting as a profession.
Goal Two: Students will explore how the creative impulse can be shaped into a performance piece.
- Students will recognize and apply techniques to free voice, body, mind and emotions; they will apply voice, body, mind and emotions to inhabit a role.
- Students will know and demonstrate acting techniques and theories.
Goal Three: Students will know and communicate how to analyze and interpret plays and other theatrical events from acting and performance perspectives.
- Students will develop an ongoing working knowledge of and ability to incorporate acting techniques and theories. Included in this would be methodologies drawn from the Stanislavski approach (Meisner, Strasberg, Adler), Suzuki techniques and training in both Shakespearean and Commedia styles.
- Students will apply historical and literary research to acting.
- Students will recognize and apply techniques to free voice, body, mind and emotions; they will apply voice, body, mind and emotions to inhabit a role.