MFA Acting Candidates Sharon Combs, Abbie Cathcart, Eloy Gomez-Orfila, and Darah Donaher discuss how they devised and produced four original works based on current newspaper headlines. Final performances have been recorded and released for viewing is the form of a Buzzfeed-style news website, which can be found at www.untoldstoriesmsu.com

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Untold Stories: A Living Newspaper Project

Members of the Second Stage organization discuss playwriting festival that was organized, written, performed, and produced entirely by Michigan State University’s very own aspiring playwrights. Watch the performances at theatre.msu.edu/spaces

The Spaces We Share - Second Stage Playwriting Festival

A group of Michigan State University students virtually came together throughout fall 2020 to create a series of 5 new audio plays, each connected to the themes of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI).

D.E.I. AUDIO ANTHOLOGY with Nealmonté Alexander, Sam Carter, and Mary Claire Zauel

In this episode we speak with Director Sarah Hendrickson and four members of the Department of Theatre Freshman Class about their experiences with starting college online during a pandemic and the amazing creativity that came out of that experience.

Pandemic'd! A Mockumentary Comedy (Freshman Showcase 2020)

Designer, educator and Department of Theatre Alum G Max Maxin IV returned to Michigan State to review and critique the portfolios of our BFA and MFA Design Students. In this episode we hear from Max, along with students Alaina Guttierrez, Rose Legge, Zech Saenz, Grace Foiles, Nick Casella, and Mona Jahani about their portfolio review experience and why they all chose MSU.

BFA & MFA Design Students with Guest Alum G. Max Maxin IV

MSU Assistant Professor of Acting and Movement and certified intimacy director, Alexis Black, MSU Academic Specialist and AEA Stage Manager Tina Newhauser, and stage manager and Department of Theatre Alumnus Chris Badia discuss the creation of Stage Managing Intimacy, a workshop that Alexis and Tina are leading for Intimacy Directors & Coordinators.

Stage Managing Intimacy: Alexis Black, Tina Newhauser, Chris Badia

Rose Legge, an MFA design candidate discusses her project, VOTE YOUR VOICE, which will use a technique called projection mapping to cast graphic art images of voter information on to the side of the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum (MSU Broad).

Vote Your Voice - Rose Legge

Theatre senior Marshall Ross discusses a film he produced over the summer of 2020.

SOLO: Marshall Ross

Theatre seniors Nate Davis & Jason Dernay discuss their new podcast The Art of Adaptation.

The Art of Adaptation: Nate Davis, Jason Dernay, Rob Roznowski

Michigan State University's Head of Acting and Directing in the Department of Theatre, Rob Roznowski, previews his new book The Introverted Actor: Practical Approaches. The book offers first-hand accounts, methods, and tested techniques that will enable directors and educators to create balance between introverts and extroverts in rehearsal spaces and classrooms.

The Introverted Actor: Rob Roznowski

A conversation with MSU Professor of Acting and Movement, Alexis Black and Michigan State theatre students Claire Wilcher, Sarah Davis, and Heather Mahoney about the practices of Intimacy Direction.

Intimacy Directing: Alexis Black, Claire Wilcher, Heather Mahoney, Sarah Davis

In this episode, Michigan State Department of Theatre faculty member Tina M. Newhauser discusses the creation of the BFA in Stage Management. And we celebrate the first Spartans ever to receive this degree... Shelby Eppich and Troy Gährs!

BFA Stage Management: Tina Newhauser, Shelby Eppich, Troy Gährs

In this episode, we chat with Dr. Ann Folino White Ph.D., director of Bonnets: How Ladies of Good Breeding Are Induced to Murder by Jen Silverman. We also talk to two of the student actors in the show, Abigail Byrne and Zaria Aikens.

BONNETS: Ann Folino White, Abigail Byrne, Zaria Aikens

Director Deric McNish, Stage Manager and Host Bri Kubiak, and Actor Vaughn Haynes discuss the process and experience of producing Into The Woods for MSU Department of Theatre.

INTO THE WOODS: Bri Kubiak, Deric McNish, Vaughn Haynes

Freshman Showcase director and Second City Alum Sarah Hendrickson, along with students Maris Keller and Mark Zummallen, discuss using short-form improvisational comedy to help acclimate freshmen to their new lives as Michigan State Spartans and the things that are expected of them as newly minted adults!

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