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College Theatre Arts Department is about getting involved.
With an active program, both onstage and backstage, we produce
four plays each year, including two Festivals of One-Act Plays
directed by students. Our productions, which vary in content
and style from year to year, are cast completely from our own
students, and it is our goal to provide every interested student
with a chance to direct.
Jay Varela and Judy Garey head the Acting and Directing
Program; Willy Eck serves as Stage Designer and Technical
Director; and Abra Flores Paudler is the Costume Designer
and Make-up Artist.
Our course offerings include: Fundamentals of Acting, Advanced
Acting, Film Acting, Theatre Appreciation, Stagecraft, Make-up,
Costume Design, Costume Crafts, Play Production,
Film
History, and Screenwriting. Our program also offers instruction
and practice in Directing for the Stage through the One-Act
Play Festival. Our Costumer, Abra Paudler, has taken groups
of students to study theatre in Europe during the summer
sessions in 2001 and 2003, a program we hope to continue
in successive years.
We strongly believe in the power of the theatre as an educational
tool and focus our productions as a way to explore issues
on our campus and in our community. Classes on campus are
invited to lecture/discussions related to each show, we often
create interdisciplinary links between our productions and
other disciplines on campus, and we work toward an active
outreach with organizations in the community.
Our mission is to provide hands-on, high-quality, theatre
education and experience preparing students to go on to four-year
universities, professional training institutes, or to work
in the theatre. We believe theatre provides a significant
enrichment for both its participants and its audience, and
we value it as collaborative art in which all participants
contribute equally and mutually share responsibility.
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