HONORS THESIS in WRITING AND DEVISING for the
THEATER STUDIES DEPARTMENT at EMORY UNIVERSITY written and performed in 2019
A PLAY WRITTEN BY JOSH OBERLANDER WITH A DEVISING ENSEMBLE CONSISTING OF ADAM FRIEDMAN, JULIA BYRNE, NATHAN RAY, LILY BOWMAN, PETER BUZZERIO
Beginning summer before senior year and ending spring semester, I completed an honors thesis in the department of Theater Studies concerned with using experimental ensemble techniques, like the practices of companies like Joint Stock and Complicite, as a way of evading power abuse in the traditional theater-creation process. I was also curious of the effect of this type of ensemble development on a work that had been written by a single artist. I wrote a one-act play, assembled an ensemble of five of my peers, and recorded the process that followed: our work creating a process as well as the changes to the script, culminating in a public staged workshop reading.
MY WORK WAS AWARDED HIGH HONORS AND IT CAN BE READ IN FULL HERE.
THEATER STUDIES DEPARTMENT at EMORY UNIVERSITY written and performed in 2019
THE FIRST OXFORD ST. SCHOLASTICA’S DAY PAGEANT:
A CASE STUDY IN USING ENSEMBLE DEVELOPMENT TO ADDRESS PARADIGMS OF POWERA PLAY WRITTEN BY JOSH OBERLANDER WITH A DEVISING ENSEMBLE CONSISTING OF ADAM FRIEDMAN, JULIA BYRNE, NATHAN RAY, LILY BOWMAN, PETER BUZZERIO
Beginning summer before senior year and ending spring semester, I completed an honors thesis in the department of Theater Studies concerned with using experimental ensemble techniques, like the practices of companies like Joint Stock and Complicite, as a way of evading power abuse in the traditional theater-creation process. I was also curious of the effect of this type of ensemble development on a work that had been written by a single artist. I wrote a one-act play, assembled an ensemble of five of my peers, and recorded the process that followed: our work creating a process as well as the changes to the script, culminating in a public staged workshop reading.
MY WORK WAS AWARDED HIGH HONORS AND IT CAN BE READ IN FULL HERE.
