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Influenced: Artistic Truthfulness in the Age of Social Media
(2022-03-03)The following thesis records the process of researching and creating a solo theatre show called Influenced. It is focused on the pursuit of artistic truthfulness in the face of fears of how the work might be interpreted ... -
Grape Head: Rejecting Compulsion/Repulsion Through the Development of a Queer Trans Dramaturgy
(2022-03-03)The following thesis tracks the creation, development and production of my thesis show Grape Head. At first, I will develop a queer dramaturgy that I plan on engaging with through my development period. This dramaturgy ... -
Simple Gifts: Performing Place in Suburbia
(2021-11-15)Political theorist Jane Bennett, renowned for her work on ethics and the environment, brings our gaze from the human experience of things to things themselves. In Vibrant Matter, Bennett theorizes an inherent vitality of ... -
Un Regard Oblique - A Distorted Gaze Designing Confinement
(2021-11-15)My thesis project is a tribute to generations of people, like myself, who grew up without a voice, crushed by psychological confinement, without the feeblest option of an unconventional identity. My intention is to explore ... -
Exploring Sex, Shame, and Transformation in Amy Rutherford's Mortified
(2021-11-15)This paper presents written support material for Amanda Roveda's direction of an augmented audio experience of Amy Rutherford's stage play Mortified for the Department of Theatre's 2021 Theatre@York season. The directorial ... -
The Grand Balcony; The reflection of a corrupt world. Directing The Balcony by Jean Genet
(2021-07-06)In directing Jean Genets The Balcony, I consider Genets voice, especially how it manifests in his novels The Thiefs Journal and Our Lady of The Flowers. I look at the ways his desire to connect to the audience by breaking ... -
Vessels: Designing for Autonomous Sound
(2020-05-13)This thesis explores the process of designing for natures autonomous soundscape through an experimental meditation on the phenomenology of acoustic resonance: the sonic vibrations of objects. Manifested in a series of ... -
Measure for Measure: Measuring Morality for a Contemporary Context
(2020-05-11)This paper presents written support material for Severn Thompsons ninety-minute adaptation of Shakespeares Measure for Measure for Shakespeare in High Parks thirty-seventh season. The concept and script edit for the ... -
Much Ado About Nothing: The Challenge of Directing Shakespeare's Romantic Comedy for a Contemporary Audience
(2020-05-11)This paper offers the written component of Liza Balkans investigation into her thesis project: editing and directing the 2019 production of Shakespeares Much Ado About Nothing, produced as part of the 37th season for the ... -
Travels with my Family
(2019-11-22)This paper examines the processes, research, and theories drawn upon to create an interactive physical world using set, lighting, and media design. This world -- a full scale set -- built in the Joe Green Theatre was used ... -
The Object/The Body/The Ritual: An Affectual Dissection of Plastic Bags Through Performance Design
(2019-07-02)Roland Barthes has famously noted plastics as miraculous substances of infinite transformations and transmutations, yet we are in the midst of a paradigm shift in which the material plays an increasingly destructive role ... -
The Green Line: An Investigation of the Arabization of the Playwriting Process through an Exploration of Intergenerational Memory
(2019-07-02)The author examines the limitations and potential in the "Arabization" of the playwriting process through an exploration of the Lebanese Civil War and the inheritance (or erasure) of intergenerational memory. Through a ... -
Rethinking Performance: A Cognitive Journey toward Excellent Play
(2019-07-02)Perfectionistic traits, which have both cognitive and behavioral facets, can have negative effects on a performing artists psychology and/or their ability to perform at their best. A review of literature was undertaken, ... -
Mindful Acting: Freeing the Comfortable Self on Stage
(2019-07-02)This thesis will explore how I can reduce the impact of anxiety on my stage performance and how I can be more comfortable, while finding ways to be unique as an actor. For this effect, a range of methodologies will be ... -
Freedom in Discipline: Grounding Wild Impulse with Self-Mastery in Sarah Ruhl's Orlando
(2019-07-02)The following document is an exploration in practicing the power of discipline in Theatre@Yorks production of Orlando. This support document crafts a personal redefinition of discipline, examines the artistic fertility in ... -
Playful Transformations: Directing Sarah Ruhls adaptation of Orlando by Virginia Woolf
(2019-07-02)This thesis documents my artistic process as a director for a production of Sarah Ruhls adaptation of Orlando by Virginial Woolf. The research and preparation for this process begins with Ruhls aesthetic and approach to ... -
Eat Me: Destabilizing Theatrical Forms of Representation in Order to Resist Reproduction of Prevailing Ideologies
(2019-07-02)Eat Me is a praxis exploration in how to destabilize theatrical form in order for an artist to speak their truth as fully as possible. Inspired by the Italian Futurists, this journey takes into account different forms of ... -
Lost Fool: Re-Inventing a Professional Theatre Process
(2019-07-02)This supporting thesis document chronicles the exploratory journey of developing and implementing a nascent creative studio practice, resulting in the crafting, rehearsal and performance of a solo, multi-media theatrical ... -
MAD GIRL'S LOVE SONG: Visibility Through Theatre Creation
(2019-07-02)The following thesis chronicles the process of creating, developing, rehearsing, and performing a solo theatre piece entitled MAD GIRLS LOVE SONG. The aim of this research is to create a solo performance of non-linear ... -
Through Breath To Depth: Nurturing Dramaturgical Coherence in What is The Water?
(2019-07-02)This multi-modal thesis seeks to integrate an impulsive, psychophysical studio practice with vision, dramaturgical coherence and comprehension during the creation of the devised solo performance: What is the Water? The ...