When I first decided to go to graduate school for acting, my goals were very clear: To refine my craft and to widen my range. As I delved into the journey, I found myself being overly heady and painfully over thinking everything Jim Winker said I had a baroque mind and Kyle Donn…
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This thesis addresses how leaders find themselves doing something even when they don't know what to do. It is based on my own practice as an experienced team leader and it deals with questions of action, time, identity and leadership. A classic understanding of action usually re…
Theater, historically, has served as a site for intense debates about ontology, specifically as concerns distinctions between what is real, in Plato's sense, and what is "merely" mimetic. Similar ontological debates have attended the development of new media technologies, which …
am a performer. It is what I do. There's a time I believe where I tried to suppress it. I think I lied for a few years in my teens telling my parents I wanted to be a doctor. But I wasn't interested in math and I was really loud. All it took was a student performance of Lend Me …
This thesis chronicles my research, preparation, and rehearsal process as an actor to create the role of Lydia Wickham in Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley by Lauren Gunderson and Margot Melcon. In this thesis, it is my intent to record my passage as an actor and Master of Fin…
The following is a proposal for Tiffany Joy Taylor’s MFA Directing Thesis film production of the script Presumption, written by Barbara R. Nicolosi. In considering the best direction and overall style that fit this dramatic genre, light elements hinting at southern gothic came t…
For my Culminating Project towards the completion of my MFA in Television, Film and Theatre/Acting Option at California State University, Los Angeles. I explored the Make Up of Identity. Three parts: history/family, sexuality, and self-acceptance. My culminating project delved i…
Proceeding from the perspective that theory can be utilized in practice, this thesis chronicles the making and production of the University of California San Diego production of Tony Kushner’s Angels in America, Part Two: Perestroika in 2016, directed by Jon Reimer. Through the …
This thesis documents my artistic process as I blend scholarship with artistry utilizing the tools I have learned over my training to create five distinct characters in Neil Simon’s The Good Doctor. Beginning with primary research, I take a look at the history of Anton Chekhov’s…
This paper is a thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the Master of Fine Arts degree in theatre. It is a comprehensive overview of Lindsey L. Oetken’s process constructing the roles of Hippodamia and Pythia in Atreus, produced by Minnesota State University, Mankato in early…
This PhD dissertation analyzes espionage as a form of theatre and performance. Using archival documents, comparative analysis of theatre and espionage case-studies, and the application of critical theory, espionage is revealed to be a theatrical endeavor. It is a paramount examp…