Electronic thesis
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Tell Me a Story: Using Story Circles and Applied Theatre to Foster Community, Connection, Empathy and Self-Expression, 2021
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Identifier: te_2021fall_bergstrom_melissa.pdf
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""You can see in people's bodies their...resistance at the beginning of a story circle. By the end, their bodies have released something." -Robbie McCauley "In times of crisis, "educators are 'second responders'—helping make sense of things as we go along and after." -Bob Colby This project explores how story circles and applied theatre exercises can be used to foster connection and community between a group of participants previously unknown to one another, and offer opportunities for...
Dates:
2021
Tell Me About Yourself and Other Stories, 2024
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Identifier: cw_2024spring_mahfouz_halle.pdf
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"Tell Me About Yourself and Other Stories is a short story collection examining the construction of identity through relationships and choices. Spanning genre and form, these stories explore how pieces of the self are borrowed from experience and how people react to the weights of memory and outside perception. The collection is a blend of traditional short stories and flash fiction, of realism and hyperrealism, digging into both the discomfort and solace of human connection." -- Abstract
Dates:
2024
Ten Essays, 2019
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Identifier: cw_2019spring_viehman_morgan.pdf
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"'Ten Essays' is a collection of narrative and memoir essays that explores what happens after a family fractures. Beginning with her mother's obsession with restoring old houses and the aftermath of her father's abrupt departure, the narrator examines both herself and her family through the lens of repeating patterns, unexpected symbols, and inherited dysfunction. In an honest portrait of her family, the narrator traces pivotal moments in her rural childhood, discovering truths hidden in the...
Dates:
2019
Tender, 2020
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Identifier: sw_2020spring_versyp_tandy.pdf
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"This feature-length dark comedy uses the tropes of the thriller genre to both satirize and honor the institution of marriage. The script also uses elements of melodrama and camp to speak directly to a queer audience, providing catharsis for emotional trauma specific to the LGBT community. This project is the culmination of a larger body of work aimed at transforming my episodic, autobiographical writing style into marketable, highly structured screenwriting—without losing my voice or...
Dates:
2020
Terrorismo, 2010
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Identifier: vm_2010summer_cayamcela_juan.pdf
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"Terrorismo is an animated graphic narrative about three friends who decide that they can no longer live a life of poverty and discrimination. They decide that their only course of action is to gain the attention of terrorist in hopes of joining him in his crusade of violent social change." -- Abstract
Dates:
2010
Tethers: On the Five Stages of Grief, 2020
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Identifier: vma_2020spring_chiu_chin_huen_maria.pdf
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"A narrative balletic pas de deux outlines the five stages of grief through the story of a girl who is left by the love of her life. When she experiences this loss, emotions overwhelm her as she uses the medium of dance to convey her heartbreak, her denial of the circumstances, her bargaining to get back what was once hers, her anger over the perceived betrayal, her depression during her darkest moments, and finally her acceptance of everything that is and will be. The story is depicted in a...
Dates:
2020
Thank You for Applying, 2022
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Identifier: pf_2022spring_grafton_kristen.pdf
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"High school graduation is fast approaching for senior Marjorie "Jorie" Jorie Haywood, and she's overwhelmed by everything: AP exams, prom committees, musical rehearsals, and her part-time job. food service shifts. Most importantly of all of this are the college applications. Jorie is sethas her heart set on attending the University of Florida, —in her mind, it's a given and always has been—so when UF waitlists her, she spirals, desperately searches desperately searching for a way to impress...
Dates:
2022
Thank You I'm Sorry I Love You Goodbye, 2022
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Identifier: vm_2022spring_lounds_dominic.pdf
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"What is home after immigration and displacement? Family after loss? Memory after dementia? Using interviews with members of my family, this thesis is an attempt to answer those questions for my benefit as well as to prompt viewers to consider such questions for themselves. It is a personal documentary that centers immigrant experiences because it is a narrative that comes from my Jamaican family and uses their words in their voices. The experience exists entirely in virtual reality and so...
Dates:
2022
That Uninspired Sort of Way, 2016
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Identifier: cw_2016spring_freeman_jade.pdf
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"This collection of short stories and flash are the best I've written during my graduate education at Emerson College. These stories follow a style distinctly my own, examining the human condition of individuals in their 20s. The men and women represented in these stories are adrift, not successful or happy, and are living inconsolable lives: a man starts digging to China to find his estranged wife, a young woman tries to find solace by accosting her favorite musician, a filmmaker attributes...
Dates:
2016
That's Amor/e & Pretty Grotesque, 2022
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Identifier: sw_2022spring_settineri_alessandra.pdf
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"That's Amor/e and Pretty Grotesque are two pilots steeped in immigrant culture as it operates within the U.S., particularly Latine culture. The pilots – all my scripts –also explore the significance of memory and how our past traumas and resulting perspectives play out in the present. The pilot of That's Amor/e shows a promising beginning for two young immigrants – Cuban and Italian – who meet at a low point in their lives, but find inspiration in each other to start a new lease on life....
Dates:
2022
The Active Empathy Project, 2021
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Identifier: te_2021spring_byrne_laura.pdf
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"Although there is a great deal of research to support the use of an arts-based curriculum as a tool for teaching empathy, there are few peer-reviewed studies that support the specific application of theatre arts practices in teaching social and emotional skills. Therefore, this project attempts to illustrate the ways in which embodied theatre, in rehearsal, performance and training provides valuable techniques when applied to social and emotional learning. The project is grounded in...
Dates:
2021
The Alchemy of Trans Voice: Gender Affirmation and Expansion Through the Linklater Voice Method, 2024
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Identifier: te_2024spring_beauregard_allison.pdf
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"The speaking voice is a common and intense source of gender dysphoria for many transgender and gender non-conforming individuals, especially for those in public-facing and self-expressive fields such as acting. This project explores the challenges and benefits of using the Linklater Voice Method, one of the foremost voice training pedagogies for actors and public speakers, in combination with gender-affirming speech-language pathology practices, gender theory, and critical pedagogy to...
Dates:
2024
The Alexander Technique: Embodied Functionality, 2024
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Identifier: te_2024spring_hallal_lauren.pdf
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"This study investigated the impacts, benefits, and limitations Alexander Technique lessons have on college students inside and outside of theater training. I identified and extracted themes, keywords, and commonalities in experiences using qualitative interviews and in-lesson recordings. The data collected was analyzed using the intersections of A.T., body functionality, and the dimensions of embodied experience as defined by Niva Piran's Developmental Theory of Embodiment. The results...
Dates:
2024
The Angel, 2023
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Identifier: sf_2023spring_leon_david.pdf
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"THE ANGEL is a feature length horror film intended for theatrical release with a period setting and character-driven story. Set in 1970s Los Angeles, the film observes the "angelic" possession of a faded movie star and its twisted effect on her 12-year old daughter. This supernatural story examines the abusive relationship between a daughter and her mother through a grounded, psychological lens. Unlike many other films of it's kind, THE ANGEL attempts to shift the narrative from demons to...
Dates:
2023
The Angel of Death, 2021
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Identifier: pf_2021spring_shriver_madeline.pdf
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"Elizabeth Cox's entire life has been spent in the shadow of her twin sister, Katie. Her mother constantly punishes and abuses Elizabeth for any slight that she may have caused while her father does nothing to stop her. Though Katie is preferred over Elizabeth, the twins share a bond that is unbreakable. But then the unthinkable happens, Katie is found murdered in her apartment. Elizabeth is still coming to terms with her twin sister's murder when an injustice has occurred. Her sister's...
Dates:
2021
The Angie Archive, 2024
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Identifier: vm_2024spring_maske_claire.pdf
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""The Angie Archive" is a personal experimental documentary short film. Told through a combination of narration, home videos, 16mm footage, hand-drawn animation, and family photos, it tells the story of Claire Maske's search to find every single photograph in existence of her mother, who died ten years ago. It explores the relationship between photography and grief, the construction of fantasy and identity through family photo albums, and the failures of archives." -- Abstract
Dates:
2024
The apparatus, 2017
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Identifier: pw_2017fall_moore_nicholas.pdf
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"A startup proposal in media innovation that uses a content marketing model to grow from a blog to a publisher to a platform. The mission of the platform is to investigate the role of power in politics in life. The project is split into three parts: media criticism, content analysis, and growth plan." --Abstract.
Dates:
2017
The Art of Chinese Paper Folding, 2021
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Identifier: cw_2021spring_chao_michael.pdf
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"This thesis investigates relationships between identity, mental health, and familial dynamics through the lens of growing up a mixed race Chinese-American. Both lyric and prosaic forms are used to explore how the act of remembering folds image and emotion together, becoming what we carry as memory, shaping our sense of self. The title is borrowed from a mid-20th century book on Chinese paper folding, which provided a framework for the construction of the collection. The act of folding paper...
Dates:
2021
The Art of Screaming Internally, 2021
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Identifier: pf_2021spring_rando_kristen.pdf
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"Bowie Robbins doesn't know much. But what she does know is designing clothes, her twin sister, Presley, her melodramatic mom and her boyfriend, Owen. That is, until Owen is caught cheating on her in front of the whole school. Reeling from the breakup, Bowie suddenly finds herself with lots of free time just as the theater workshop finds themselves without a costume mistress. With a nudge from her sister, Bowie takes on the role and discovers that she's capable of a lot more than she ever...
Dates:
2021
The Backside of God, 2020
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Identifier: vma_2020spring_seidel_hogan.pdf
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"'The Backside of God' is an experimental documentary utilizing archival footage, digital glitch, chemical abstraction, and direct animation to explore the intricacies of the artist's relationship with their late uncle, Doug Seidel." -- Abstratct
Dates:
2020