How Do Hybrid/Interactive Performance Concepts Change the Ways We Teach Directing?

Abstract

“The Show Must Go On; Directing Student Driven College Productions in a hybrid, interactive performance style,” by Professor Jeannine Saunders Russell and Dr. Judith Babnich This paper examines the approach of an instructor/director regarding pandemic theatre at the University level. It examines the challenges of both continuing to provide students with the education they expect to receive while also keeping them safe. This case study is presented through an interview by the second author of the first author’s experience with staging an original script, entitled THE MONTY HALL PROBLEM, by Benjamin Connor.

Presenters

Jeannine Russell
Associate Professor, School of Performing Arts, Wichita State University, Kansas, United States

Judith Babnich
Professor of Theatre, School of Performing Arts, Wichita State University, Kansas, United States

Details

Presentation Type

Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

Theme

Technologies in Learning

KEYWORDS

Theatre Education, Pandemic Teaching, Multiple Technologies, University Instruction