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The Ghosts We Eat, 2024
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Identifier: cw_2024spring_prusko_gabrielle.pdf
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"The Ghosts We Eat is an original collection of short fiction that takes place within a world just like ours alongside all too familiar monsters and magic living among us. Filled with brutal beauty and sprinkled with dry unflinching humor, this particular compilation explores hauntings that take on various shapes. From cannibals to aliens to young women redefining their constructed places within sex and intimacy, Prusko uses her stories to investigate how we face trauma head on whether it be...
Dates:
2024
The Great Big Infinity, 2020
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Identifier: vma_2020spring_pipp_jennifer_lee.pdf
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"The Great Big Infinity is an exploration of the ceremonial potential of media. The central concept is inspired by a fusing of ceremonial processes including the despacho ceremony, a layered healing bundle, archetypal mesa work, and fire ceremonies. The Ceremonial livestreams create a visual language where time is echoed and expanded. In this way it looks the way ceremonies can feel where time is looped and expanded. The advantages of online ceremonies are that people can join from multiple...
Dates:
2020
The Great Gatsby; An Original Adaptation, 2021
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Identifier: te_2021fall_roncone_dena.pdf
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"'The Great Gatsby,' F. Scott Fitzgerald's colorful and dramatic novel has a storyline that naturally lends itself to the stage. Theatre artists have long been attracted to dramatizing this hundred-year-old book. 'The Great Gatsby' became public domain on January 1st, 2021. After reading published adaptations of "Gatsby," They did not fully honor the true beauty of the work - Fitzgerald's vivid imagery and use of metaphor. I have created a new one-act dramatic adaptation of 'The Great...
Dates:
2021
The Great Saving, 2022
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Identifier: cw_2022fall_amico_madilyn.pdf
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"The Great Saving is a heart-wrenching true story from the perspective of a young girl who realizes her parents are addicted to drugs. Madilyn and her siblings endure abuse, neglect, and trauma beyond measure. They're forced to grow up and raise each other, keep their parents' addiction a secret, and suffer silently and alone in rural North Carolina. Madilyn and her siblings can't help but anticipate the deaths of their parents or their own. But when her baby brother is born addicted to...
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2022
The Gulch, 2022
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Identifier: pf_2022spring_sztobryn_alicia.pdf
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"This thesis contains a synopsis and the first 13 chapters of The Gulch, a YA dystopian novel set in a future society where displays of emotion are deemed dangerous and punishable, an attempt to stem the depression and suicide that run rampant. The protagonist, 18-year-old Simon, struggles to contain his emotions and garners attention from the Minister, the strict leader of his city. Simon watches those closest to him buckle under the pressures of the city, and his mental health...
Dates:
2022
The Hands of Virtue, 2021
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Identifier: cw_2021spring_yeh_katherine.pdf
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"The Hands of Virtue is the first novel in a three-part series that follows three point of view characters in the wake of two world-ending catastrophes. Each character struggles to carve out their own sense of livelihood: Edie to keep her family together and alive, Haig to excel in a new job, and Mikhail to move on after trauma. The setting of a matriarchal society challenges conceptions of gender roles and adds pressure to the difficulties each character faces. The novel explores themes of...
Dates:
2021
The harmless things, 2018
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Identifier: cw_2018spring_haggard_kit.pdf
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"The stories in this collection seek to represent what is already surreal—loss, womanhood, queerness—by distorting the familiar. These characters come uncoupled from their lives in various ways, which force them to examine absences, relationships, acts of violence, and familial connections. Fabulist elements call attention to this process of evaluation, collapsing the distance between what is internal and what is external." --Abstract.
Dates:
2018
The Hauntlands, 2021
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Identifier: cw_2021spring_bloem_noah.pdf
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"The Hauntlands is a slyly comedic fantasy adventure that follows four distinct characters as they move through a wild, magic, and often absurd world. Though coated in a paint of the odd, silly, and fantastical, the narrative's ultimate focus centers on the relationships characters develop even in adverse circumstances. Each character must deal with their own personal struggles, whether that be searching for one's lost memories or dealing with a newfound power, while simultaneously facing...
Dates:
2021
The Home Front, 2024
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Identifier: vm_2024spring_loughman_molly.pdf
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"The Home Front is an emotionally thought-provoking 25-minute short film that delves into the intricacies of small-town life and the hidden darkness that lies beneath its picturesque facade. Journalist Natalie Cruz is summoned back to her quaint New England hometown, tasked with unraveling the enigmatic layers of a serene lakeside community, Natalie must navigate the complexities of trust and betrayal as she seeks to unearth long-buried secrets. The film explores themes of grief, resilience,...
Dates:
2024
The House on Holten Street, 2021
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Identifier: cw_2021spring_denault_jacques.pdf
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"Jan Moreau is living with her parents when her mother begins to act strangely. Jan decides to get to the bottom of her mother's affliction, when she discovers that they aren't as alone in the house as they had thought. She quickly uncovers that her parents, and the house, have secrets. Hoping to help her mother before it's too late, Jan is forced to grapple with her parents' endless arguing, and the house's haunting influence. In her attempts to uncover the truths behind the secrets, Jan is...
Dates:
2021
The Housekeeper, 2023
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Identifier: vm_2023spring_arabkouchehkhatibi_masoud.pdf
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"The Housekeeper is a short narrative drama, set in the marginal area of a mid-Atlantic city in The United States of America. Martha Desimone, a young woman who work as a cleaner in a hotel room finishes work and join her mother to do some grocery shopping before heading home and having dinner with her family. This film portrays aa day of the life Martha who suffers from a very toxic codependent family dynamic which she ultimately won't find a healthy way out of." -- Abstract
Dates:
2023
The Impact of the Chinese Undergraduate Acting Training System on Students Engaged in Screen Acting and Theatre Acting, 2021
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Identifier: te_2021spring_zheng_shuyu.pdf
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"This thesis will explore the curriculum and training patterns of the relatively uniform Chinese acting education and training system for students in college with different career plans. Chinese undergraduate acting training is very systematic. Nearly all the professional courses of Chinese acting majors are fixed and uniform, according to this standard system. The courses are divided into four categories: vocal, physique, lines, and acting. All undergraduate students majoring in acting...
Dates:
2021
The Invisible Guests, 2024
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Identifier: pf_2024spring_hamedi_leyla.pdf
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"It's believed that our souls can linger for seven days after death. When Ziya Roshan's older sister Yalda kills herself, Ziya sets off to find Yalda's soul and bring her back before her time is up. She finds herself in an in-between world where the fairy tale demons she knows from childhood stories keep watch over the souls, "the invisible guests." Just like all stories, there's a price. To return with her sister, she must complete three tasks. Ziya completes each with the help of a...
Dates:
2024
The Invite, 2024
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Identifier: vm_2024spring_thibault_nicholson.pdf
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"After 10 years, since the death of his mother, Jason is getting ready to be married and sends an invite his father, Richard. Receiving no response to his invitation, Jason comes home to get an answer in person. In the midst of seeking a response Jason also confronts his own true feelings and finally speaks them aloud. He discovers that his feelings are not the only at play but also those of his father and sister, Rachael, who also lost something the day his mother died. When an invitation...
Dates:
2024
The jungle of fortune, 2018
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Identifier: cw_2018spring_urias_elizabeth.pdf
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"The story of the Del Llueve family. Living in a lush jungle set just outside of time, the peace and harmony of the village is disrupted by the arrival of the Coronel and his army of soldiers. When the Coronel decides to establish law and order in the jungle, secrets are revealed. As more and more of the Del Llueves fall victim to the Coronel, the family must band together to survive." --Abstract.
Dates:
2018
The Keeper, 2020
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Identifier: sw_2020spring_hill_cabrera-contaoi_jessica.pdf
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"The Keeper is an action-adventure series which follows a very unlikely hero, a middle-aged Latina mom, who still has fire in her belly for life and could give Indiana Jones a run for his money. The pilot explores themes of ageism and sexism and aims to show that women have more to offer the world as they age. The thesis behind the pilot is that an older female can carry a show like this without leaning on sex appeal alone. My body of work has focused on female heroes who break the Hollywood...
Dates:
2020
The King Of Man: Bound in Mud and Straw Chapters 1–8, 2020
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Identifier: cw_2020fall_goldsher_noah.pdf
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"'Bound in Mud and Straw' is the first book of 'The King of Man,' a trilogy comprising the historical fiction memoir of Nilus Komnenos, a Greek eunuch from Constantinople who travels to the Island of Man and becomes embroiled in the affairs of the Norse–Gaels of Britain and Ireland during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries CE. A noble by birth, but captured and enslaved as a child, Nilus chronicles his life story—one of hardships endured, secrets kept, and bonds both honored and...
Dates:
2020
The Ladies' Musical Brigade and Performing Troupe, 2016
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Identifier: cw_2016fall_post_sydney.pdf
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"After discovering that the all-female performing troupe founded by her mother is out of money, Sophie Hamilton decides to spearhead one last effort to keep the show alive. They travel to a ramshackle theater in New York City and attempt to build their show from the ground up. Sophie finds herself torn between the troupe that has been her family and her entire world for twenty years and the pull of the outside world, particularly in the form of Samuel Ackermann, the son of one of the...
Dates:
2016
The Last Black Strife Film, 2021
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Identifier: sf_2021spring_collier_daequan.pdf
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"THE LAST BLACK STRIFE FILM, is a satirical comedy about a young Black filmmaker named Cam, who after becoming tired and overwhelmed by the traumatic and bleak images Hollywood keeps providing, decides to make a film that sets out to end this trend. Writing a film jam-packed with all the stereotypes and tropes, he could think of. From Richard Wright and James Baldwin to Tyler Perry and Spike Lee, Black artists have struggled with defining the role of the Black artist. We've seen this...
Dates:
2021
The Last Library in the Galaxy, 2024
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Identifier: pf_2024spring_wherren_annakatherine.pdf
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"On an asteroid in a belt near the center of the Milky Way sits the last library in the galaxy. It's a place where one is just as likely to find a first edition copy of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice as an ancient alien timeship. Rowena isn't entirely sure how she found the position, but, reeling from her twin sister's death, she told herself, she was looking for an adventure. Just when she thinks she's setting in, it turns out the library's aging AI CardCAT starts acting strange. What...
Dates:
2024