Liberatory Strategies for Whole Artist Collaboration

This first year MFA course serves as foundational curriculum for fostering and sustaining anti-racist and generative learning spaces shared by MFA Actors, Directors and Playwrights and other key student collaborators. This course seeks to introduce and confirm a set of working shared language, analysis and practices anchored in consent-affirming and anti-racist commitments necessary for the theater work of embodied story-telling and collective world-building. How do artists create across, with and at times against differences in identities, lived experiences, imaginative aesthetics and contexts? How can artists discern between generative and harm-based conflict, enacting care, rest and accountability within collaborative projects and the larger theater ecosystem? Open to MFA graduate students and advanced undergraduates by permission.