Theatre & Dance ETDs
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Theses/Dissertations from 2024
Sink: The Infinite Game of Playwriting, Katherine Farmin
Floodplains of the Undercommons: A Pressing Paradox, Marya Errin Jones
Below Sea Level: Writing the Truth Beneath Actuality, Danielle Mettler
Theses/Dissertations from 2023
Smokebox: Writing Into Embarrassment, Julia Storch
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
Eccentric: Writing Through the Lens of Empathy, Steven M. Blacksmith
How Would Jesus Watch This? An Investigation into Dance Restrictions in American Protestantism, Rebecca Lynn Huppenthal
The 5th Humor, Stella Maria Perry
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
"Possessed": The Phenomenology of Immersive Theatre, Shannon M. Flynn
Unfreezing the Flamenca: The Stereotype of the Sensual Bailaora Through the Lens of Hollywood Film Noir, Amy Schofield
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Flaws in My Father | better engaging with trauma, grief, loss, and pain through storytelling., Neil Fontano
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
SUBVERTING THE NATURE OF THING: GENDER AGENCY IN SPIRITUAL SYSTEMS AND CONTEMPORARY PERFORMANCES OF ZIMBABWE'S SHONA PEOPLE, Rujeko S. Dumbutshena
HAVE A GOOD ONE: A Writer’s Search for Place, Rafael Gallegos
The Modern Synthesis of Josephine Baker and Carmen Amaya, Justice Moriah Miles
Decolonizing Playwriting through Indigenous Ceremonial Performances, Jay B. Muskett
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Strange Labor: Toward the Non-Expression of Feelings Themselves, Nevarez G. Encinias
Planeta Solitario: Dramatizing Autobiography, Diego Miguel Gomez
Holding On/Letting Go: Situating Trauma and Memory in Theatrical Spaces, Caroline T. Graham
THEATRE AND THE OVERWHELMING QUESTION: Why Make Theatre in These Times?, Mónica Valeria Sánchez
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Because We Have To: Flamenco as Survival Strategy against Detrimental Effects of Post- Traumatic Stress Disorder, Dolores Garcia
The Female Writer and Her Female Characters: A Coming of Age Story, Stephanie N. Grilo
The New Shakespearean Stage: Minimalist Theatre and Spectacle Through Text, Andrew R. Morrison
Dramaturgy During New Play Development, Krista Pino
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
TEACHING CHOREOGRAPHY IN A UNIVERSITY SETTING: EXPERIENCING COLLABORATION THROUGH DRAMATURGICAL THINKING, Ariel Burge
REMEMBER THE LADIES: EXPLORING FEMININE ARCHETYPES IN THREE PLAYS, Pamela Denise Hinson
Movement as the Driving Force: Empowering Live Dance Performance Through the Integration of Film, Kelsey Victoria Mary Paschich
Chatterbox, Rebecca Sanchez
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Re-Contextualizing the Patriarch: Understanding Fathers and Sons, Kevin J. Hathaway
Listen, then Speak: Foregrounding Womens Spaces, Stories, and Relationships in Dramatic Writing, Irene Loy
In the Open Air: Rediscovering Self and the Environment through Site-Specific Dance and Alternative Teaching Methods, Lisa Marie Nevada
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
CUL-DE-SAC: SOCIAL CONVERSATION THROUGH RESEARCH AND PERFORMANCE, Peter J. Bennett
Choreographer as Coach: Facilitating Engagement During the Dance Making Process, Emily D. Bryan
Fascism, Flamenco, and Ballet Español: Nacionalflamenquismo, Theresa Goldbach
Creating Theatre: The Search for a Voice, Barney Lopez
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Disposable Boys: Emotional Location as Applied to the Experience of a Contemporary Theatrical Audience, Kevin R. Elder
Fadeaway, Leslie Eskeets
The Entertaining Art of Dance Engagement, Crystal Jolene Fullmer
The Real and Represented Ophelia: An Investigation of Choreographing Women's Madness in Concert Dance, Jacqueline M. Garcia
The Invasive Kind, Christina Hjelm
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
I am a Mormon: Media, Ambivalence, and Identity in the Mormon Culture, Katherine Dahl Bergsten
What a Bitch: The Complexities of Gender in Playwriting, Lawrence Chavez
FLAMENCO PURO: PURSUING TRUTH IN FLAMENCO AND LOOKING AT MY WORK IN REGARD TO FLAMENCO HISTORY, Marisol Encinias
Dancing Along the Tightrope of Leisure: Puritans and Dance in Seventeenth-Century Massachusetts, Rachel A. Packard
Noisy Feet: The Forgotten Click of American Toe-Tap, 1925 — 1935, Sarah Helen Williams
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
Convergencias: Critical View Of Traditional And Contemporary Flamenco, Jeanne d'Arc Casas
Playwright as Enchanter: A Compositional Method in Dramatic Writing, Georgina Hernandez Escobar
IN A "WE CAN'T" THEATER CULTURE, MY PLAYWRITING REALITY: A SELF-REFLECTIVE ANALYSIS, Margaret Iha
A New Vision of Korean Dance Through a Comparative Study of Korean Dance and Modern Dance History, Sun-Ah Kim Lee
Midnites Child: A Multidisciplinary Methodology for Staging Stories of Forgotten People, Riti Sachdeva
Dialogue Without A Cause?: The Use of Banter as a Dramatic Device, Nic Wehrwein
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
Fear and Joy in the Dance of Death: Re-Interpreting the 14th Century Plague's Artistic Genre, Mary Cianflone
Flamenco and Its Gitanos An Investigation of the Paradox of Andalusia: History, Politics and Dance Art, Rosamaria Cisneros-Kostic
Identifying Comedy: The Linguistic Properties of Humor, Aaron Frale
La Nueva Escuela De La Danza Flamenca: Postmodern Shifts in Flamenco Dance, Illeana Gomez
Literature in Motion: Mary Anthony's use of Shakespearean and Biblical Themes in Modern Dance, Gwendolyn Lee Jensen
Identidad and Mejicanidad: Dance Transference through Mexican Folklórico, Azteca, and Flamenco Dance, Erica Ocegueda
The Dilemma of Dezra: An Adolescent Manifesto in Five Parts, Erin Phillips
Theses/Dissertations from 2009
Everymans Argot, Kamarie Chapman
Writing the Warrior: A Latina Writes Latinas, Patricia S. Crespin
The Hyphenated Playwright: A Speculation on Opportunities for an Emerging MFA, Terry Davis
Theatre/Games: The Poetics, Ludology & Narrative in Video Game and Dramatic Structure, Matt Diel
Dramatis Pupae: The Special Agency of Puppet Performances, Casey Mráz
