Drama Playwrights + practicioners

Samuel Beckett

Waiting for Godot

Tony Kushner

Angels in America

Jean Paul Sartre

No exit

Maria Irene Fornes

Fefu and her friends

Ntosake Shange

For colored Girls

Tennessee Williams

A streetcar named desire

Sam Shepard

Angel city, curse of the starving class

Henrik Ibsen

A Doll’s house

Neil Simon

The odd couple; I ought to be in pictures

Arthur Miller

The crucible; After the fall

William Shakespeare

12th night, Romeo & Juliet, + so many more!

Thornton Wilder

Our Town; The skin of our Teeth

Lorraine Hansberry

A Raisin in the Sun

Lillian Helman

The children’s hour

Lynn Nottage

Ruined

Federico Garcia Lorca

Blood Wedding, the house of bernada alba

Oscar Wilde

The importance of being Ernest

Beth Henley

Crimes of the Heart

Anton Chekhov

The seagull

David Mamet

Oleanna

Harold Pinter

The birthday party

William Saroyan

The beautiful people

Clifford Odets

Waiting for Lefty

Caryl Churchill

far away

Bertolt Brecht

The good woman of Setzuan

Anna Deavere Smith

Twilight

Luis Valdez

Zoot suit

Theresea Rebeck

The family of Mann

Constantin Stanislavski

• Father of acting

• Moscow Art Theater

• TRUTH

Antonin Artaud

• Theater of CRUELTY

• avant-garde

• Expressionistic

Jerzy Grotowski

• POOR Theater (think DTACSC- no props, no costumes)

• Polish theater lab

• Actors = athletes

Bertolt Brecht

• EPIC theater

• Berliner Ensemble

Stella Adler

• “Acting is not about the WORDS”

• The art of acting

• IMAGINATION

Augusto Boal

• Theater of the OPPRESSED

• Cry? Laugh Big.

• Laugh? Laugh Big.

Duerr

MY QUEEN

• Loves Stella

• Created Actor’s toolbox

Viola Spolin

• MOTHER OF IMPROV

• Anyone can act

Lee Strasburg

• THE METHOD

• The actors studio

• SELF

Uta Hagen

RESPECT FOR ACTING