Directing Program (Graduate Only)

By the time they graduate, Directing students will exhibit:

• A defined, deepened, and expanded development of their individual aesthetic terrains.

• Engagement with a variety of aesthetic and practical approaches that have challenged and expanded their unique perspectives, and have embraced an openness to that which is alien.

• An understanding of principles in multiple areas necessary for effective direction: acting, dramaturgy, and design.

• Development of the communication skills needed to work effectively with collaborators coming from disparate disciplines.

• Development of acute analytical skills.

• Engagement in practical production activity in the context of a disciplined conceptual framework.

• The ability to lead effectively in complex production situations and a profound awareness of the obligations and responsibilities that are attendant in the director's leadership role, including providing ethical leadership of their processes.

• An understanding of the foundation of the discourse and practice of film, video, and the visual arts in acknowledgement of the increasing importance of the media to a director's work.

• An understanding of where their work exists within the context of contemporary social, cultural, and intellectual discourse.

Métier Requirements

TDIR 525, 526 Directing Lab

TDIR 503, 504 Transforming Text I & Material Performance

TDIR 605, 606, 705, 706 Directing Seminar

Cinematic Elixirs (2 semesters)

TDIR 640 MFA2 Directing Project

TDIR 740 MFA3 Directing Project

TACT 500 MFA1 Acting Studio

TSCE 510 Performance by Design

TSCE-545a Design Methodology

THST 500 Interpretive Strategies for Plays

THST 501 Interpretive Strategies for Performance

TWNT 600 Winter Session (every Spring that it is offered)

Additional classes to be determined in consultation with the mentor.