Theater and Performance Studies 2022-2023 Senior Project Season
Through the Senior Thesis, students engage with theater, dance, and performance studies as fields that are interdisciplinary in scope, and global in perspective. These semester-long projects make use of multiple approaches to research (historical, textual, archival, embodied, ethnographic, and more) to investigate questions that are of compelling interest to students and their collaborators, and which also address contemporary issues and concerns in the public sphere.
Productions are presented in the Black Box Theater (53 Wall St., New Haven), unless otherwise noted.
FALL 2022
Edward Albee’s THE ZOO STORY
by Edward Albee
A Senior Project in Acting for Sean Luc Rogers
Advised by Toni Dorfman
Directed by Madison Cole
[Short project description]
Performances:
Thursday, October 13th at 8:00pm
Friday, October 14th at 8:00pm
Saturday, October 15th at 2:00pm & 8:00pm
For tickets and additional information:
https://collegearts.yale.edu/events/shows-screenings/zoo-story
MERCURY’S FOOTPATH
by Ellen McLaughlin
A Senior Project in Acting for Dominic Sullivan and Directing for Samantha White
Advised by Toni Dorfman
[Short project description]
Performances:
Thursday, November 10th at 8:00pm
Friday, November 11th at 8:00pm
Saturday, November 12th at 2:00pm & 8:00pm
For tickets and additional information:
https://collegearts.yale.edu/events/shows-screenings/mercurys-footpath
VIOLET
Music By Jeanine Tesori, Lyrics and Book by Brian Crawley
Based on “The Ugliest Pilgrim” by Doris Betts
A Senior Project in Acting for Rebecca Salzhauer
Advised by Dan Egan
Directed by Claire Donnellan
[Short project description]
Performances:
Thursday, December 8th at 8:00pm
Friday, December 9th at 8:00pm
Saturday, December 10th at 2:00pm & 8:00pm
For tickets and additional information:
https://collegearts.yale.edu/events/shows-screenings/violet-0
SPRING 2023
COLORED VEILS
A Senior Project and original inter-media performance by Sophia Hall
Advised by Joan MacIntosh
Directed by Cleopatra Mavhunga
[Short project description]
Performances:
Thursday, February 9th at 8:00pm
Friday, February 10th at 8:00pm
Saturday, February 11th at 2:00pm & 8:00pm
For tickets and additional information:
Coming soon
GIRLS AREN’T FUNNY
A Senior Project and original solo performance by Claire Sattler
Advised by Deb Margolin
Directed by Samantha Fisher
[Short project description]
Performances (venue TBD):
Thursday, February 23rd at 8:00pm
Friday, February 24th at 8:00pm
Saturday, February 25th at 2:00pm & 8:00pm
For tickets and information:
https://collegearts.yale.edu/events/shows-screenings/girls-arent-funny
YOU GOT OLDER
by Clare Barron
A Senior Project in Acting for Naomi Goodheart
Advised by Deb Margolin
Directed by Elka Wade
[Short project description]
Performances:
Thursday, March 2nd at 8:00pm
Friday, March 3rd at 8:00pm
Saturday, March 4th at 2:00pm & 8:00pm
For tickets and additional information:
Coming soon
ANGELS IN AMERICA, PART TWO: PERESTROIKA
by Tony Kushner
A Senior Project in Directing for Catherine Alam-Nist
Advised by David ChamberS
[Short project description]
Performances:
Thursday, April 6th at 8:00pm
Friday, April 7th at 8:00pm
Saturday, April 8th at 2:00pm & 8:00pm
For tickets and additional information:
https://collegearts.yale.edu/events/shows-screenings/angels-america-part-two-perestroika
SCAPINO!
by Frank Dunlop and Jim Dale
A Senior Project in Acting for Julian Hornos-Kohl and Bradley Nowacek and Directing for Cleopatra Mavhunga
Advised by David Chambers, Albert Laguna and Mike Rossmy
[Short project description]
Performances:
Wednesday, April 26th at 8:00pm
Thursday, April 27th at 8:00pm
Friday, April 28th at 8:00pm
For tickets and additional information:
https://collegearts.yale.edu/events/shows-screenings/scapino
Playwriting and Critical Essay Projects
Dates for readings and presentations TBA.
Title TBD
A Senior Project in Playwriting for Sarah Valeika
Advised by Shilarna Stokes
SIERRA BURGESS DESERVES BETTER
A Senior Project in Playwriting for Kira Daniels
Advised by Toni Dorfman
ONEIRONAUT: Exploring New Black Subjecthoods, Representations of American Hoodoo, and Black Sibling Self-Sufficiency in Drama
A Senior Project in Playwriting for Logan Klutse
Advised by Sarah Mahurin
Afrosurrealism and Black Dramatic Interiorities
A Senior Project in Performance Studies for Adam Wassilchalk
Advised by Nicholas Forster
Also…
Yale Playwrights Festival 2023
Yale Dance Lab 2023