Students interested in the Performance Creation track must take the following courses before moderating:
Students interested in the Technical Creation and Design track must take the following courses before moderating:
To complete the Performance Creation track in the concentration, students must earn a total of 24 credits. Fifteen of these credits will be earned through the following required courses. The remaining 9 may be chosen from the list of elective courses:
Required courses:
Elective courses:
To complete the Technical Creation and Design track in the concentration, students must earn a total of 24 credits. Fifteen of these credits will be earned through the following required courses. The remaining 9 may be chosen from the list of elective (with at least two advanced classes in production and design):
Required Courses:
Elective Courses:
We strongly recommend an internship in your area of interest with a professional organization either during a semester away or during the summer (three to six credits). Recent students have interned with Barrington Stage, Berkshire Theater Group, and Shakespeare and Company.
Theater students have written, directed, and performed in their own original works as part of the thesis process; others have performed in plays or written studies of an aspect of theater performance. The range of theses in theater is suggested by these titles:
“Opening the Channels: The Actor-Audience Connection”
“The Mendacious and The Misbegotten”
“Number 6 Goes Back to School: Two Episodes of ‘The Academy’, a Series inspired by Patrick McGoohan’s ‘The Prisoner’”
“My Views on Anna Christie: The Production”
“Directing Darkness: Exploring the Holocaust through Theater Production”
“Swimming In It: Approaching Lighting Design for Modern Dance”
“neneug: Tales from the (Dis)enchanted”
“Historical Representation of the Ultras: The Story Behind Büchner’s and Brecht’s Revolutionary Characters”
“Le Petit Mort: A History of the Grand Guignol and Its Place in Entertainment”
“Miranda’s Dream: A Survey of ‘Carvers’ in William Shakespeare’s Plays”
For information on performance opportunities, workshop and internship opportunities, study abroad opportunities, and facilities, please visit the website: www.simons-rock.edu
Current and past visiting faculty include Karen Allen (actress), Christine Adaire (director, voice teacher), Carlos Adinolfi (actor/ puppeteer/ set designer), Lauren Ambrose (actress), Stephen Earnhart (film director/ writer), Jim Frangione (actor), Shahzad Ismaily (composer/musician), Sara Katzoff (actor/director), Ken Lauber (musician/composer/sound designer), Govane Lohbauer (costume design), Corinna May (actress, voice teacher, and fight choreographer), Normi Noel (director, voice teacher), Elissa Myers (casting director), Arthur Penn (director), Giovanna Sardelli (director), Dan Scully (lighting design), Barbara Sim (actress), James Warwick (actor/director), Kaye Voyce (costume design), and Walton Wilson (Head, Yale Graduate Acting).