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Abstract
As instructors of academic theatre courses, we discuss theatre course content in ways that will eventually lead to critical reading, writing, and thinking in the students. We strive to empower them and cultivate agency in them. To achieve that goal, we observe the importance of, among others, building a hospitable classroom environment. In this paper, we investigate the ways in which we build such an environment by engaging the theatrical conceptual framework of rehearsal. This is a concept and practice that aims to provide a safe space for experiments, focuses on process rather than the final product, and welcomes student voices and ideas.
Kelly I. Aliano received her PhD from the City University of NY Graduate Center. She is the author of Theatre of the Ridiculous: A Critical History (McFarland, 2018). She has presented at numerous conferences in the field of video game studies. She regularly collaborates with Dongshin Chang from CUNY Hunter about writing pedagogy in theatre courses; they published a chapter in New Directions in Teaching Theatre Arts (2018) on the subject as well as an article on low-stakes writing for Theatre Topics. She currently teaches at Long Island University’s Post Campus in the Department of Theatre, Dance, and Arts Management and at LaGuardia Community College in the English Department. She is currently pursuing an MA in Museum Studies at CUNY SPS.