Electronic thesis
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Developing an acting workshop for senior citizens, 2016
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Identifier: te_2016spring_kelleher_shiela.pdf
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Examines a five-day acting workshop developed for senior citizens. Discussion includes the planning and implementation of the program, the observed results, as well as responses of the participants. --Abstract.
Dates:
2016
Developing New Plays Around Themes of Social Justice, 2021
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Identifier: te_2021spring_antoun_joseph.pdf
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"This thesis analyzes a project that developed three short new plays which were solicited from local playwrights and centered on themes of social justice. Many processes exist for developing new plays. This project focused on a process which I have used professionally which combines multiple readings followed by moderated discussions. The discussions were based on a set of guidelines for comparing similarities in plays with themes of social justice." -- Abstract
Dates:
2021
Devilment, 2019
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Identifier: sw_2019spring_larocca_eric.pdf
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"Devilment is a horror-thriller with dark fantasy elements about a videogame designer who finds her and her younger brother's life forever changed after they encounter an infamous video game with gruesomely metamorphic properties. Examining themes of abandonment, transformation, and the inability to love, the film concentrates on a young woman involuntarily thrust into a role of motherhood as she begins to suspect her brother is experiencing a grotesque metamorphosis after he plays a rare...
Dates:
2019
Devising to Enhance Acting Technique and Vulnerability with Student Actors of Color, 2022
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Identifier: te_2022spring_dones_elena.pdf
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"This study aims to determine any connection between devising theatre and experiencing vulnerability while practicing acting craft. Two groups of theatre students over two years, at a visual and performing arts high school in Newark, NJ, participated in devised theatre projects. Interviews with nineteen of those students, all of Black or Latinx backgrounds, was compiled and audio recorded between January and April, 2022. The students talked at length about the community-bonding, the freedom...
Dates:
2022
Dig Two Graves, 2023
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Identifier: pf_2023spring_zelvin_victoria.pdf
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"It's an old refrain: revenge jobs don't work. If you want revenge, you must first Dig Two Graves. Set in a fantasy city reminiscent of 1920s era Prohibition New York and told from alternating dual POVs, this is an adult fantasy sapphic heist novel. Washed up lightning mage Nell has a mad dream to rob a floating casino in the sky and she needs the best crew if she has a dream of getting away it, but there's just one problem: the best woman to plan the heist is her ex Sian, who currently...
Dates:
2023
Dimensions, 2023
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Identifier: pf_2023fall_goldthwaite_samantha.pdf
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"Alone after the deaths of his seven closest friends, Callan Thomas learns of the existence of the multiverse—and the fact that he and his friends are the subjects of a curse that follows them across the worlds. He is not the only one who was left alone, he finds; and so he sets out to bring together a new group of those who were left behind. In another world, Winter Williams and her friends stumble across a rift in the fabric of the universe, and encounter a being who seeks to destroy it...
Dates:
2023
[DIS] CONNECTED, 2024
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Identifier: vm_2024fall_acquaviva_greyson.pdf
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"(DIS)CONNECTED is a multimedia installation that immerses the audience in the experience of a person with Tourette Syndrome who is on the autism spectrum. Using a blend of film and sound, audience members experience a profound sense of sensory overload and a deep sense of the inescapability of Tourette's. -- Abstract
Dates:
2024
Divergent Dreams, 2024
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Identifier: vm_2024fall_wheeler_barbara.pdf
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"In the late 20th century, economic strain and a strong cultural bias against females adversely altered China's population and enticed a swell of international adoption by affluent Americans wanting to adopt infant girls. A consequence of such a popular adoption practice was that many adoptees became estranged from the Chinese culture that they were born into and experienced an identity crisis from years of not being considered “American enough” or “Chinese enough” by others. The story...
Dates:
2024
Divine Providence, 2022
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Identifier: vm_2022spring_mercier_neal.pdf
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"Divine Providence is a narrative short film set in and inspired by the city of Providence, Rhode Island. Building on the city's history of organized crime and taking place during the winter of 1978, the film follows a tumultuous confession that brings the lives of a lonely parish priest and a guilt-ridden mobster crashing together, forcing the two men to tear open old wounds and confront the demons of their respective pasts. A dialogue-driven chamber piece, Divine Providence explore...
Dates:
2022
DIY data art : creative data literacy for youth in public libraries, 2017
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Identifier: cm_2017summer_viotty_samantha.pdf
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"DIY Data Art is a master's thesis civic media toolkit that co-designs creative data literacy activities with librarians to build youth data literacy skills through short, hands-on, self-guided activities that use personal data as an entry point to harnessing data science." --Abstract.
Dates:
2017
Do Not Resuscitate, 2022
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Identifier: cw_2022spring_costa_michael.pdf
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"The controversial topic of necrophilia has been largely ignored since Gabrielle Wittkop's debut novel Le Necrophile in 1972; in fact, contemporary fiction has often avoided it completely. Of course, it makes minor appearances in novels such as Cormac McCarthy's Child of God or Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho, but the subject resorts to minor characterization and is almost always utilized to depict corrupt characters as even more reprehensible. There are few necrophiliac protagonists...
Dates:
2022
Doctor Underground, Too Much Blood Phuckette Park, Magnolia, 2021
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Identifier: sf_2021spring_lopez_ricardo.pdf
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"This project contains two scripts. DOCTOR UNDERGROUND is a hour-long medical drama that follows the women's health crisis in current day Nicaragua by navigating the dark world that is the health care system: power, money, greed, privilege, religion, and politics — nothing's off-limits. When Dr. Micheala Galiano, a highly skilled gynecologist, and woman's rights activist, finds herself stuck after trying to change the corrupt system from the inside, she goes on a journey to expose the...
Dates:
2021
Does a Bear Need Many Glasses, 2016
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Identifier: vm_2016summer_cui_wei.pdf
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"Does a Bear Need Many Glasses? is an eight-minute fiction short film. It tells the story about a man who always wears a bear costume, which does not have a smile on the face. He goes to a craft store to buy some drinking glasses and falls in love with the woman who runs the store. When he gets back home he cuts his bear face to make a smile. The next day, he catches a thief who is stealing from the store and fights the thief. But he is defeated and the woman thinks he is attacking the man....
Dates:
2016
Dogs on the porch, 2017
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Identifier: cw_2017spring_estridge_rachel.pdf
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"A collection of stories that follow characters who are broken in some way. They rage in their narrative space, having been abandoned by all including their author. Violent, lonely, and with a smidge of sentiment, these characters come together to say, 'Hey. Listen. Let me tell you what happened.' They do so in their own unique voice whether they are willing or not." -- Abstract.
Dates:
2017
Doldrums, 2020
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Identifier: cw_2020spring_filpi_piero_joseph.pdf
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"The moment our family doctor told me she was diagnosed with multiple myeloma, I squeezed my copy of Dante Aleghieri's "Paradiso" so hard it is still unreadable to this day. My mother had simply gone in for a routine check up, and out she came with cancer for the second time. Days before, I received a phone call from my best friend saying his cancer had spread to his lymph nodes, and all I could think about was the chaos that life throws us into when we least expect it. These poems are...
Dates:
2020
Dolores, 2024
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Identifier: vm_2024spring_perez_carmen.pdf
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"In a thematic retelling of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart," a man is forced to bring his elderly mother home from her nursing home after she is evicted on grounds of non-payment. She has severe dementia that gets worse the longer he attempts to care for her, and eventually he begins to wonder if she would simply be better off dead. "Dolores" explores themes of grief and guilt before a loved one's passing, the role of men as caregivers, and a broken healthcare system that abandons...
Dates:
2024
Don't Say Yes, 2024
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Identifier: pf_2024spring_barquin_bailey.pdf
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"Phoenix is forced to put her dream of being a writer on pause to move back to her hometown and take care of her elderly father as he succumbs to his dementia diagnosis. While she excels at caring for her father, she struggles to care for herself as grapples with her depression. Life feels like a cycle of existential dread until she gets a package from her former best friend, whom she hasn't spoken to in four years, inviting her to be a bridesmaid at her wedding. Told in alternating...
Dates:
2024
Don't Speak, 2021
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Identifier: pf_2021summer_scott_rachelle.pdf
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"The main character of Don't Speak is Kelsey Townsend, a sixteen-year-old girl who's struggling to deal with change. Midway through high school, her parents decide to move to another town, and Kelsey has to leave behind her best friend, as well her church, which she's very active in and attached to. After her parent's multiple attempts to get Kelsey to join their new church, she finally volunteers and meets a few teens from her new school. The most important one being Ben Michaelson. He was...
Dates:
2021
Dorothy, 2022
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Identifier: sw_2022spring_legrow_molly.pdf
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"This masters' thesis contains both written artist statements as well as a full-length feature screenplay titled Dorothy. Through this project, I was able to explore familial dynamics and reunions in the face of extreme grief. This thesis project studies grief through its power to unite as well as completely tear apart. In my screenplay, the two main characters, Sadie and Rose, are estranged sisters who suddenly lose their mother, Dottie. They are forced to work through their deep seated...
Dates:
2022
D.O.S.E., 2020
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Identifier: sw_2020spring_jean-francois_castel.pdf
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"This hour pilot sews together fantasy and drama to explore the concept of true happiness and how to obtain it. Avery Goodwin reunites with her estranged magical family to solve a brewing mystery that exploits the desires of humans for personal gain. Fairy Godmothers are at the center of this series because I view them as the most selfless creatures in fiction. Their whole role is to cater to the needs of mortals. The main theme that echoes in all of my work is the pursuit of happiness and...
Dates:
2020