THEATRE PERFORMANCE
- TPP 2100Performance IThis course is an overview of acting as an art and craft.
- TPP 2110Acting Technique I: Basic ProcessThis course is an introduction of the basic acting process. The course emphasizes living truthfully in imaginary circumstances through honest listening and response. May be repeated to a maximum of nine semester hours.
- TPP 2111Acting Technique II: Contemporary American RealismThis course focuses on scene study and basic characterization. May be repeated to a maximum of nine semester hours.
- TPP 2190LTheatre Rehearsal and PerformanceThis course consists of the assignment of a specific role and/or responsibility. Opportunity for students to receive additional supervision and critique, as well as credit, for participation in rehearsal and performance.
- TPP 2710Voice IThis course introduces student actors to the basic principles of voice training. Group and individual exercises are designed to stimulate and develop the imagination, physical and sensory awareness, creativity, and the ability to work as part of an ensemble. Focus is on alleviating individual tensions in the vocal musculature that restrict the natural voice. May be repeated to a maximum of nine semester hours.
- TPP 3103Performance IIThis course focuses on the exploration and development of a range of fundamental tools of the acting process, with particular emphasis on vocal production and physical expression in the context of creating and rehearsing scenes and monologues drawn from significant modern and contemporary playwrights, ending with an introduction to the performance of classical Shakespearean texts.
- TPP 3265Acting for the CameraThis course offers a preliminary look at developing acting techniques for work in television, film, and video media. It explores how actors prepare, rehearse, and perform differently in front of the camera as compared to an onstage production.
- TPP 3510Movement Techniques for Theatre IThis course utilizes exercises for self-awareness, physical strength, flexibility, and versatility for the actor. May be repeated to a maximum of six semester hours.
- TPP 3511Movement Techniques for Theatre IIThis course explores styles of movement and dance, creative presentations, and daily warm-ups. May be repeated to a maximum of six semester hours.
- TPP 3711Voice IIThis course continues the study of the first-year basic skills in speaking for the student actor. All actors who are on a professional track for the Bachelor of Fine Arts degree must have thorough knowledge of their speaking voice for the stage, how to use it in their acting studios and stage performances, and how to be a more effective speaker in their everyday life. May be repeated to a maximum of nine semester hours.
- TPP 4113Acting Techniques III: Acting Problems in Genre and StyleThis course is an acting workshop oriented to particular problems the actor confronts in dealing with historic periods in dramatic literature or material of post-realistic and contemporary styles and thought. May be repeated to a maximum of nine semester hours.
- TPP 4126Creative ImprovisationThis course examines vital interrelationships between the physical, vocal, and psychological potential in creating a complex, expressive artistic performance.
- TPP 4224Audition TechniquesThis course is designed as a workshop for advanced actors who are preparing to enter graduate study programs or seek professional work in theatre with some attention paid to work in film and television. The course examines the audition process from the perspectives of both the aspiring performer and the prospective employer.
- TPP 4226Music Theatre Workshop BAThis course provides evaluation, systemization, supervision, and critiques of all performance work undertaken to isolate acting and musical problems that occur in musical theatre and to see their solution in process and performance. The course also examines the audition process and to develop audition packages for professional auditions. May be repeated to a maximum of six semester hours.
- TPP 4310Directing IThis course is a basic techniques course with emphasis on script analysis, fundamentals of staging, and work with actors.
- TPP 4403Devised Theatre: Performance CreationThis advanced acting and directing course focuses on performance creation in response to major works of world literature. Students learn various approaches to devising an autonomous work of theatre. Students invest much effort in rethinking conventional creative processes and production methods.
- TPP 4404Advanced Acting/DirectingThis course is a workshop for advanced actors and directors focused on particular problems in contemporary staging of works from selected historic periods.
- TPP 4512Advanced Movement for the TheatreThis course focuses on advanced movement techniques and exploration of repertory and choreography. May be repeated to a maximum of six semester hours.
- TPP 4531Stage CombatThis course explores the development of physical dialogue through armed (rapier and dagger, broadsword, quarterstaff, or knife) and unarmed stage combat applied to acting. Focus is placed on the processes of safety, technique, rehearsal, and performance. Students have the option to participate in the Society of American Fight Directors Skill Proficiency Test.
- TPP 4600Fundamentals of PlaywritingThis course introduces the craft of playwriting. The course functions as a workshop and focuses on the mechanics of structure, form, and marketing.
- TPP 4712Voice IIIThis intermediate course in voice focuses on increasing vocal stamina, breath capacity, range, and freedom on the stage. The course introduces speaking Shakespeare and offers practice with the use of complex language in acting classical texts. May be repeated to a maximum of six semester hours.
- TPP 4713Voice IV: Vocal ImaginationsThis course is primarily designed to expand the vocal imagination of the student actor. The International Phonetic Alphabet is introduced in an organic manner as a primary tool in the adoption of different speech sounds from those that are natural to each student actor. This course includes a "Speech Sound Donor Project," in which the student actor must study and implement a dialect different from their own natural one, and then must teach it to the group at large. May be repeated to a maximum of six semester hours.
- TPP 4730Dialects for StageThis course focuses on the techniques of acquiring a dialect for stage performance. Scene study and monologues performed in dialects. Content may vary from semester to semester. May be repeated to a maximum of six semester hours.
- TPP 4905Directed Individual StudyMay be repeated to a maximum of twelve semester hours.
- TPP 4922Performance Workshop in Acting/DirectingThis course provides evaluating systemization, supervision, and critiques for performance work required for BFA program. May be repeated to a maximum of ten semester hours.
- TPP 4923Musical Theatre WorkshopThis course provides evaluation, systemization, supervision, and critiques of all performance work undertaken to isolate acting, dance, and musical problems that occur in musical theatre and to seel their solution in performance. May be repeated to a maximum of eight semester hours.
- TPP 5145Acting Techniques IThis course is designed to provide the actors with practical means of facilitating their creative process. The basic principles of organic inner technique are applied to improvisational exercises, character development and scene work. The higher spheres of the actor's creativity are approached via psychophysical breath and imagination techniques. May be repeated to a maximum of six semester hours.
- TPP 5146Classical Performance StylesThis course introduces the work of the classical actor. It includes development of imaginative and technical facilities as applied to ancient Greek repertory. The course ends with an introduction to Shakespeare. May be repeated to a maximum of nine semester hours.
- TPP 5284MFA Practicum in ActingThis course involves conservatory study in professional actor training in conjunction with the Asolo State Theatre in Sarasota. May be repeated to a maximum of sixty semester hours.
- TPP 5380MFA Practicum in DirectingThis course gives students an opportunity to work in production as stage manager, assistant director, and director of Studio Theatre and Mainstage productions. May be repeated to a maximum of sixty semester hours.
- TPP 5381Problems in DirectingThis course is advanced directing scene work for the specialist degree.
- TPP 5383Problems in DirectingThis course is advanced directing scene work for the specialist degree.
- TPP 5405Advanced Performance and Devised Theatre: Laboratory in Performance CreationThis advanced acting and directing course aims at performance creation in response to major works in world literature. Students learn various approaches to devising an autonomous work of theatre. Students invest much effort in rethinking conventional creative processes and production methods.
- TPP 5515Movement IThis course explores and expands the actor's movement choices and his ability to express himself non-verbally. The course emphasizes developing a strong, expressive, dramatic imagination. May be repeated to a maximum of six semester hours.
- TPP 5516Movement IIThis course emphasizes the creation of the physical characteristics of a role by combining first-year movement analysis with basic acting process. May be repeated to a maximum of six semester hours.
- TPP 5651Advanced Play AnalysisThis course is an in-depth analysis of representative play scripts to enable realization in production.
- TPP 5656Advanced Play Analysis for ActorsThis course is intended to provide actors with the tools for careful script analysis. Aristotelian, Elizabethan, Brechtian, and post modern dramaturgical techniques are examined in order to identify methods for achieving a deep and objective reading of any given text. May be repeated to a maximum of four semester hours.
- TPP 5715Voice IThis course delves fully into Fitzmaurice Voicework: destructuring to release breath, creative impulses, and the voice; and restructuring which allows the actor to bring breath and impulse work skillfully onto the stage. The speech work for this class includes training of the articulators, speech production, IPA, and mastery of the standard American dialect. May be repeated to a maximum of six semester hours.
- TPP 5716Voice IIThis course concentrates on language structure analysis, scansion, and scoring a text. Dialect training (spoken and transcription) is studied with emphasis on the in-depth process of learning dialects. Advanced work on vocal production gives the actor a fully expressive, skillful vocal instrument on stage. May be repeated to a maximum of six semester hours.
- TPP 5906Directed Individual StudyMay be repeated to a maximum of twelve semester hours.