Theater 360 - Scenic Design

Students will explore set/scenic design for live performance in a studio format. What is a performance space? We will investigate the idea of performance spaces where theatre can happen, as well as create some of our own. The main objective is to introduce the language, tools, and technical skills involved in the discipline of scenic design and to lay the foundation for further study while empowering students to actively engage as set designers in productions on campus after taking the course.

Open to students majoring or minoring in Theater. SPECIAL TOPIC: This co-taught, project-based course disrupts the disciplinary boundary between scenic design and technical design and fabrication in order to highlight the synergy between these aspects of creating. Opportunities to explore the capacity for visual and mathematical order, for the aesthetics of realizations, are created by combining the study of these mutually supportive actions. Each student will engage in the full process of design and construction of real scenic elements and structures through the processes of research, drafting, scale model-building, and full-scale fabrication and finishing. This hands-on course will draw from productions currently on the Theater Department's main stage and is an opportunity to discover and blossom the Renaissance person in you.
Lec & Lab. Lab hours will be scheduled for M - F afternoons between 1 - 5 p.m., for 40 hours in the semester, plus show load-ins and strikes. Each student must have at least one afternoon per week, 1-5 p.m. available for Lab.