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DEPARTMENT OF THEATRE, DRAMA, AND CONTEMPORARY DANCE Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Fine Arts at INDIANA UNIVERSITY Bloody, Bloody Andrew Jackson (2016) The story begins long before There is design down to different backgrounds to create Stories the lights come on for the first the very last stitch in a a bond found nowhere else. time. It starts with creation, costume. There is intentional The only thing missing is you. begin here conception, writing. There is manipulation of light to convey influence from the outside emotion. There are long hours Take your place. world and from the imagination. spent rehearsing with people There is research. who come together from PROGRAMS Choose your role LINDA PISANO Department Chair and Professor of Costume Design Bachelor of Arts Linda is an award-winning costume designer who chairs in Theatre & the IU Department of Theatre, Drama Drama, and Contemporary Dance and directs the Theatre This degree gives you a and Drama Department’s Study strong foundation in the study Abroad Program in London. She of drama as a humanistic is a member of the United Scenic discipline, and is founded Artists Local 829 and her work has on the belief that theatrical covered a broad range of theatre, production and classroom dance, musical theatre, ballet, and study complement each opera throughout the United States. other. You will be involved Her work has been featured in the in the practice of theatre Quadrennial World Design Expo in as an art, preparing you for Prague and the World Stage Design exhibition. Several of her ballet postgraduate work in the designs continue to tour through performing arts and related Canada, England, and the United fields. Beyond that, this degree States. She serves on the Board prepares you for any field of Directors of the United States requiring creativity, practice, Institute for Theatre Technology, and the rigors of professional regularly presents and publishes, self-expression and discipline. and holds membership in USITT, ATINER, the Costume Society of America, and the Costume Society of Great Britain. Haus of Mirth (2019) Jesus Christ Superstar (2016) 4 5 DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGY BACHELOR OF ARTS IN THEATRE AND DRAMA Get in-depth training in industry standard techniques, software, and processes as you complete a sequence of courses in scenic, costume, sound, lighting, and projection design and implementation. Then choose specialties to focus on throughout your academic journey. You’ll apply your skills by participating in independent projects, course projects, and the mainstage season and learn from award-winning faculty and academic specialists. HISTORY, THEORY, AND LITERATURE (HTL) Gain a deeper understanding of theatre through research, analysis, and writing. Emphasize your passion Within this emphasis, students can chose to approach theatre as scholars, playwrights, By choosing an emphasis, you can focus or dramaturgs. You’ll have the opportunity your studies on the area of theatre you wish to explore cross-disciplinary scholarship, serve as a dramaturg or assistant dramaturg to pursue. on our mainstage season, and see your writing staged in independent projects or ACTING AND DIRECTING as part of our annual At First Sight festival of new work. In addition, you’ll learn from Complete a full complement faculty with extensive experience in both of performance-based studies, the academy and the theatre industry. including voice, diction, movement, and stage combat, STAGE AND PRODUCTION as well as acting and directing MANAGEMENT courses that explore styles and genres of performance. Learn to be a stage or production manager You’ll study with faculty who as you take a variety of courses to hone are working professionals and skills in organization, communication, benefit from their expertise and people management. You’ll have and experience. Then opportunities to apply your skills as an you’ll apply what you learn assistant stage manager or stage manager with opportunities for live during our mainstage season. You can performance on the mainstage also take advantage of courses that have season and in over 35 field work in Las Vegas, at Disneyland, independent projects per year. and on cruise ships with opportunities for internships and professional placement. 6 The Servant of Two Masters, final rehearsal (March 13, 2020) 7 THEATRE AND DRAMA B.A. The scholar-artist History, Theory, and Literature Foundation All IU Theatre, Drama, and Contemporary Dance students take courses in the History, Theory, and Literature area. In each class, you’ll deeply explore a specific topic, period, or genre within theatre and performance. These classes Barbecue (2018) are designed to help you practice skills of research, writing, and critical analysis, and to apply these skills to your own artistic practice. HTL classes also create an opportunity for students to interact and build relationships that can last beyond college. Vinegar Tom (2019) The Heiress (2018) By the Bog of Cats (2019) 8 9 HISTORY, THEORY, & LITERATURE FACULTY DIANA GRISANTI DR. JENNIFER LALE DR. ERIC MAYER- GARCÍA DR. ELEANOR OWICKI TANYA PALMER Visiting Professor, Playwriting Lecturer of Undergraduate Studies Lecturer in Theatre History, Theory, Assistant Professor, Head of History, Associate Professor of Dramaturgy, and Literature Theory, & Literature Head of incoming Dramaturgy Diana Grisanti is a playwright, Jennifer is a puppeteer, playwright, M.F.A. program educator, and the Co-Artistic and educator originally from Eric is a Latino theatre artist and Eleanor’s research focuses on Director of Theatre [502] in Cleveland, Ohio. She spent a scholar, whose writing on Latinx contemporary Irish and British Prior to joining the faculty at Louisville, Kentucky. Her plays season with Madcap Productions theatre brings visibility to its theatre, with particular attention to Indiana University, Tanya served as include The Patron Saint of Puppet Theatre, touring to eight history and promotes its production the performance of identity in post- the Producer and Director of New Losing Sleep (Actor’s Theatre of states performing puppet shows at on university and professional conflict Northern Ireland. She has Play Development at the Goodman stages. He graduated with his Ph.D. Charlotte), River City (NNPN Rolling schools, libraries, and community published several peer-reviewed Theatre and led the theatre’s new from the LSU School of Theatre World Premiere), Mandatory (Weber centers. She also was the education articles and book chapters on this play programs for 14 seasons. in 2016. The research for his first State University), and Bowling for and outreach associate at La Jolla topic and is currently working She curated and produced New book project, Hemispheric Routes Beginners (Vanderbilt University). Playhouse, overseeing student on a book project on theatre in Stages, the theatre’s annual new of Avant-Garde Theatre has received She was a contributing writer on matinees, public outreach, and the Belfast between the Good Friday play festival, and served as the several awards and accolades, the bluegrass-inspired anthology Young Performers’ Workshop for Agreement of 1998 and the collapse production dramaturg on a number including the in-residence That High Lonesome Sound grades two through twelve. of the devolved Northern Irish of world premieres including Dana research fellowship from the (Humana Festival at Actors Theatre Assembly in 2017. H. by Lucas Hnath, directed by She holds a B.A. in theatre and Cuban Heritage Collection in the of Louisville), and is part of the Les Waters; an original adaptation cinema from Denison University University of Miami Libraries, the Eleanor teaches courses in the third cohort of Audible Emerging of Roberto Bolaño’s novel 2666 and an M.A. and Ph.D. in theatre LSU Graduate School Dissertation History, Theory, and Literature Playwrights. written and directed by Seth history, literature, and criticism Fellowship, the Ann Veronica area of the Department of Theatre, Bockley and Robert Falls; Smokefall Diana has written multiple plays for from the Ohio State University. Simon Award for Outstanding & Dance. Undergraduate courses by Noah Haidle directed by Annie young actors and audiences. She She has worked as an instructor at Gender Studies Dissertation, and include Theatre History I & II, Kauffman, The Happiest Song Plays has also co-written three plays with Missouri State University and as an special recognition from the Ford Science Fiction on Stage, and Last by Quiara Hudes directed by her spouse, Steve Moulds. associate lecturer at University of Foundation. 20th Century Irish Theatre. Before Eddie Torres; The Long Red Road Wisconsin, Stevens Point, as well Mayer-García teaches courses on coming to IU, she taught at Texas Currently, she is at work on El by Brett C. Leonard directed by as teaching adjunct at University of theatre history, dramatic literature, A&M University. Guayabo/The Guava Tree, a Philip Seymour Hoffman and the Redlands, Palomar College, and San performance studies, feminist bilingual musical for Creede Eleanor is the Conference Planner Pulitzer Prize-winning Ruined by Diego Mesa College. criticism, and Latin America Repertory Theatre, with composer for the Theatre History Focus Group Lynn Nottage, directed by Kate studies. Emiliano Messiez and director of the Association for Theatre Whoriskey. Ismael Lara. Diana has been a in Higher Education. At IU she As a playwright, her works include Michener Fellow, a Kentucky Arts dramaturged Anne Washburn’s Mr. Spring, BodyTalk, Trash, The Council Fellow, and a Writer in Burns: A Post-Electric Play, Brian Memory Tour and Don’t Look Back, Residence at Vanderbilt University. Friel’s Dancing at Lughnasa, and Must Look Back. Marina Carr’s By the Bog of Cats. Vinegar Tom (2019) 10 11 ACTING AND DIRECTING FACULTY ACTING AND DIRECTING FACULTY LERALDO ANZALDUA NANCY LIPSCHULTZ JENNY Mc KNIGHT JONATHAN R. MICHAELSEN ANSLEY VALENTINE Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Professor of Practice, Professor, Acting and Directing, Associate Professor Movement and Stage Combat Voice, Dialect, and Speech Head of Acting and Directing M.F.A.