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Collaborative Stage Directing: A Guide to Creating and Managing a Positive Theatre Environment focuses on the director's collaboration with actors and the creative team, and the importance of communication and leadership skills to create and manage a healthy working environment. Speaking directly to the student, this compact resource walks the aspiring director through basic principles of group dynamics, active listening, open-ended questioning, brainstorming, and motivational leadership, supported by examples and case studies offered by current professional and academic directors. With a focus on preparing the student director for resume-building opportunities beyond the studio lab, Collaborative Stage Directing challenges readers with reflective activities, a series of guiding questions to apply to three short plays, and an extensive checklist to assist them with independent directing projects. As an easy-to-use resource, Collaborative Stage Directing works as a supplement to a classic directing text or as a stand-alone guide.
List of contents
Part 1: The Collaborative Theatre Environment 1. The Director’s Challenge 2. Creating a Positive Environment for Theatre Collaboration 3. Managing the Collaborative Theatre Environment 4. Synthesizing the Principles: A Case Study Part 2: An Application of the Guiding Questions: Three Short Plays 5. Goggles 6. Application of Guiding Questions to Preparation Phase: Goggles 7. Deleted 8. Application of Guiding Questions to Pre-Production Phase: Deleted 9. Social Media Intermezzo 1.0 10. Application of Guiding Questions to Rehearsal Phase: Social Media Intermezzo 1.0 Part 3: The Independent Project 11. The Guiding Questions Checklist 12. Concluding Thoughts
About the author
Jean Burgess, PhD is a theatre educator, director, and playwright who taught college-level theatre for over twenty years and has been directing for over forty years. She received an MA in Theatre from Northwestern University and a PhD in Educational Theatre from New York University.
Summary
Collaborative Stage Directing focuses on the director's collaboration with actors and the creative team, and the importance of communication and leadership skills to create and manage a healthy working environment.
