THEATRST 290S-2.01, AAAS 290S.02
Professor Johann R. Montozzi-Wood
Wednesdays 3:05 - 5:35 p.m.
Bryan Center 127 Rehearsal Studio (West Campus)
Cross-List AAAS
ALP
Black Theater Workshop is an embodied exploration of African American art and cultural practice through theater-making: acting, collective creation, and performance. The course centers an investigation of Black acting methods, playwrights, directors, and theater companies in the US. Students will have the opportunity to contextualize their own artistic lineages of theatrical influences, devise original work, and perform scenes and monologues from the New Negro/Harlem Renaissance, Black Arts Movement, Theatrical Jazz, contemporary plays of “post-blackness” and beyond. The course seeks to operate as a laboratory, or pop-up theater company, to produce and perform a collective dramaturgy of those scenes, monologues, songs, and original work toward a final public performance.
Spring 2025: Black Theater Workshop
Instructor Consent Required