When
Wednesday May 21st- 7pm
Wednesday May 28th-7pm
Thursday May 29th-7pm
Where
M.A. in Applied Theatre Studios101 West 31st Street, 6th floor
New York, NY 10001
Driving Directions
Contact
Michael WilsonM.A. in Applied Theatre, CUNY School of Professional Studies
212-652-2820
michael.wilson@mail.cuny.edu
2014 Project Thesis Presentations 
Project Thesis Presentations
The M.A. in Applied Theatre culminates with the Project Thesis. Our graduating students envision and implement original projects in Applied Theatre. These projects are the sites for their research, which they in turn document and evaluate in their final written theses. We invite you to attend the dynamic presentations in which they share their processes and discoveries.
May 21, 28, and 29
At M.A. in Applied Theatre
101 West 31st Street, 6th Floor
New York, NY 10001
May 21st
7pm- T.J. Black, Tessa Pantuso, ,Yvonne Roen
T.I.E Rocks! A four-part interactive geology extravaganza!
This Theater in Education project used process drama and other interactive theater techniques to explore the science of rocks, soil, and fossils with students in two public school classrooms. In role as geologists, second-grade students classified rocks, excavated a farm, and discovered stories hidden deep beneath the dirt.
8pm- Olivia Harris and Marissa Metellica
"We Don't Speak With our Bodies - That's What mouths Are For:"Adult Immigrant Afghan Women Take on Choice Through Theatre
6 weeks, 5 languages, 3 translators, 2 applied theatre artists, and 1 thesis project: Marissa and Olivia used Image Theatre techniques to examine choice, consequences, and agency, and discovered the value of space to play.
9pm-Dorcas Davis and Ariyan McDaniel
The Story Legacy Workshop: An Applied Theatre Experience for Elders
This nine-session workshop series held at a senior day center in Brooklyn used storytelling, theatre, movement and creative play to explore strengthening relationships and building community.
May 28th
7pm- Margo Brooks
Community 'Play' Day
This two-day intergenerational theater workshop was offered as an outreach program for a local theater company. Participants explored what they liked and wanted to change in their area.
8pm-Mark Aldridge and Roy Koshy
Transitions
Transitions was a seven-session applied theatre workshop at housing facility in New York City. The facility supports formerly homeless people, many of whom live with addiction and mental illness. In the project, Mark and Roy worked to explore issus and themes of imporance to the residence, culminating in a performance by the participants.
9pm- Bennett Harrell
Generations Telling Stories
Generations Telling Stories was a three-week project in Beaufort, South Carolina to nurture intergenerational exchange between young people and elders of the Gullah Geechee community. Young people were the primary participants in the project: they explored traditional Gullah Geechee folktales, interviewed elders, and created and performed and original piece of theatre.
May 29th
7pm- Dianna Garten, Chelsea Hackett, Heather Lanza
Girl Up!: An Interactive Drama Workshop with Court-Involved Girls
In this 3-week workshop at a girls’ non-secure detention facility, participants used playbuilding and theatre of the oppressed techniques to explore their identities as possible agents of change in the larger world. In our presentation, we will also be discussing the gap between planned and implemented projects.
8pm-Eva Burgess and Natalie Hirsch
Girls Connect and Create: Using Theatre to Investigate
While sharing food and sharing perspectives, ten sixth grade girls explored what it means to be a girl today. Girls Connect drew on image work, character creation, process drama, and other applied theatre conventions.
9pm-Nati Hardin and Brooke Sprunger
A Theatrical Exploration of Inclusion, Exclusion, and Othering with Middle School Students
This three week workshop series at a middle school in Pennsylvania used process drama in a science fiction setting to explore the concepts of exclusion, inclusion, and othering.