Opportunities
Opportunities
for incorporating theatre into your Coe experience abound:
- Take a class or theatre lab
- Get involved with BLINDSPOT and OFF-STAGE PLAYERS
- Study off-campus
- Participate in one of our three main-stage productions.
- Share your talent in any number of student-directed or student generated productions.
- Write a play and get it produced by The City Dionysia
- Start your own improv group…
We encourage our students to take what they have learned in the classroom and test it with their peers on stage in the Mills Experimental Theatre or in the community schools with young people.
Chris Leyva ’01, has this to say about his theatre experiences at Coe:
“While I was concentrating on directing and writing, I stage managed a play and a huge musical, I performed in five plays, I edited sound cues and ran the sound board, I hung and focused lights. I helped build sets and construct costumes for almost every production that was produced in my four years.”
See the people/alumni page to find out how Chris puts these kinds of opportunities into practice in his own work as a theatre artist today.
American
Players actor David Daniels gave a workshop on Stage Combat and
Shakespearean Acting on Feb. 11, 2007.
Pictured here are Kit Timmerman, David Daniels and Katie Becker. David demonstrates how to push Shakespeare's language through a door with compression of speech exercises.
Tim Miller in residence with Coe Theatre
Internationally
renowned performance artist Tim Miller will be in residence with the
Coe Theatre Department from Monday, Oct. 19 through Saturday, Oct. 24.
Hailed for their humor and passion, Miller's performance works have delighted and emboldened audiences all over the world at such prestigious venues as Yale Repertory Theatre, the London Institute of Contemporary Art and the Brooklyn Academy of music Next Wave Festival. Since 1990, Miller has taught performance in the theater department at UCLA.
Anita Gates of the New York Times calls Miller, "A charming and wildly energetic storyteller! Funny, forceful and full of vigorous gay pride!"
Along with leading classroom workshop sessions, Miller will be performing his solo piece Lay of the Land (focusing on the issue of gay marriage) on Thursday, Oct. 22, beginning at 8 p.m. in Dows Theatre. In addition, he will produce an all-student performance piece that will be presented in the Mills Experimental Theatre on Saturday, Oct. 24, at 8 p.m. Both events are free and open to the public.