Directing Lab: From Page to Stage

Catalog description

This advanced directing class provides students essential tools for the examination of written plays, preproduction work, scene work with actors, textual analysis, design collaboration, and tech time. This course trains directors to talk about their vision of the play with an artistic director and creative team. Directors focus on telling three-dimensional stories in stage composition, culminating in a live presentation for an invited audience. Directors learn how to collaborate with stage managers, designers, and a production team, and to budget for a production. The class partners with first-year stage managers and design students in their Fundamentals of Design course. Designer majors are assigned to directors by the head of Production and Design.