Students gain overall technical working knowledge of tools of the trade, and learn how and where to apply them to final design. Explores artistic, conceptual, and collaborative sides of the craft. Students tour several off campus spaces and learn how theater architecture affects lighting design choices. Explores the technical design process from initial meetings to realization on stage. Emphasizes safety, budgeting, and problem solving.
Work includes actual production assignments and paper design projects.
Final project required to explore each student's specific interests. Students develop shop vocabulary and learn basic skills, including the safe use of all shop machines, basic handwork skills, names and uses of tools, and an overview of the various activities that go on in each shop. In each seven-week segment, students complete a project that uses all basic skills. An introduction to the craft of writing for the theater. Through weekly exercises and work on a sustained piece, students explore the problems of scene structure, action, and their relation to the dialogue.