Dramaturgy Practicum

Catalog description

Dramaturgy Practicum is a variable credit course (1-3) that trains theatre students in the practices of dramaturgy for production. Students may be paired with a particular School of Theatre production or project as an in-rehearsal dramaturg. Others will be assigned to dramaturgy teams or will complete particular dramaturgy tasks. These can include keeping group-sourced or single-authored blogs; posting to social media; taking and sharing photos and videos of the design process; interviewing artists in production; writing program notes; making lobby installations; hosting talkbacks with performers, audiences, and designers. Students might instead be assigned to a research or archiving project with the School of Theatre in order to learn theatre archiving skills. The 3-credit option is only open to students who have taken THEA 211 - Dramaturgy. These students will take on a major project, most typically the role of production dramaturg for a School of Theatre production or other major project. For the 1-credit option, students will either work on a dramaturgy team, or else they will focus on one kind of dramaturgy practice for several productions, such as production photography, social media posting, talkbacks, program notes, or outreach events.