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THEATRE
Theatre
507 Milbank Hall
854-2080
Fax: 854-1840
www.barnard.edu/theatre
Professors: W.B. Worthen (Chair, Alice Brady Pels Professor in the Arts)
Assistant Professor: Shawn-Marie Garrett, Maja Horn
Assistant Professor of Professional Practice: Sandra Goldmark
Senior Lecturers: Pam Cobrin (English; Director, Writing Program), Patricia Denison (English; Director of Undergraduate Studies, Drama and Theatre Arts),
Lecturers: Betsy Adams, Rob Bundy, Kyle deCamp, Sharon Fogarty, Rebecca Guy, Julia Jordan, Stacey McMath, Maria Mileaf, Sally Oswald, Fitz Patton, Rita Pietropinto, Wendy Waterman, Hana Worthen (Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow), Ralph Zito
Theatre Administrator: Jessica Brater
Technical Director: Greg Winkler
Production Manager: Michael Banta
Costume Shop Manager: Kara Feely
Departmental Assistant: Mike Placito
Other officers of the
University offering courses listed below:
Professor: Martin Puchner
Assistant Professor: Katherine Biers
Associate Professor of Professional Practice: Steven Chaikelson
For a complete list of
faculty on leave see:
http://www.barnard.edu/provost/facleavelist.html
The Barnard College Theatre major, a joint program with the Columbia College major in Drama and Theatre Arts, builds on its liberal arts setting by imagining an integrative approach to performance and theatre studies. Taking advantage of a wide variety of studio coursework, of the Department's production season in the Minor Latham Playhouse, as well as of a rich panoply of drama and theatre studies courses, students' creative work develops in dialogue with critical inquiry into the literature, history, culture, and theory of western and nonwestern performance, typically combining coursework in theatre and drama with study in other fields, such as anthropology, architecture, art history, classics, dance, film, languages, literature, music, and philosophy. Students work with accomplished artists, directors, designers, actors and playwrights whose work enlivens and enriches the contemporary American theatre; they also study the critical, historical, and theoretical lineaments of drama, theatre, and performance with celebrated teachers and internationally-recognized research scholars. Making, thinking about, and writing about art are an essential part of any undergraduate education: for this reason both the courses offered in the Barnard Theatre Department and casting for its theatrical productions are open to majors and nonmajors alike.
In a small program, students at once receive individual attention and ample performance and production opportunities. All students develop a vocabulary for conceptualizing performance in common courses in the history, literature, and theory of various world performance traditions. They also engage in the range of disciplines sustaining modern theatre--acting, design, directing, dramaturgy, playwriting--before taking up culminating work on a senior thesis. An original creative project, the thesis can take several forms: a significant research essay; a new play; or acting, dramaturging, directing, or designing as part of the Department's annual showcase of thesis productions. Theatre is a site of cultural innovation, transmission, and contestation, involving a variety of verbal, visual, spatial, musical, and gestural languages. Barnard/Columbia theatre majors understand the power of performance as an act of articulation; in speech, through movement and embodiment, as the manipulation of space, in the construction of an expressive event. Theatre majors are well-placed to pursue advanced professional work in the arts, as well as undertaking the kind of humanistic education that provides a solid platform for success in a wide range of endeavors.