Senior Theatre Thesis Research Lectures

Come Hear the Senior Theatre Thesis Research Lectures! Everyone is welcome to listen to our great seniors’ presentations on their thesis research. Each lecture is 15-20 minutes long, followed by a Q&A from the audience at Fir Acres Theatre classroom. All are welcome!

2026 Senior Thesis Lecture Schedule:

• Monday, February 23
  • 11:30 Dr. Evelyn Gore
    • This is Exactly What the Doctor Ordered: An Integration of Applied Theatre Into the Practice of Medicine to Humanize Healthcare
      
      
  • 12:00 Corey Near Ansari
    • Coalitional Casting: Possible Directions in Theatre Education
      
      
• Wednesday, February 25
  • 11:30 Josh Nguyen
    • Men That Are Men, Wheat that is Wheat: Garcia Lorea, Ecocricism, and the Turn Towards a More Geopathic Dramaturgy 
      
      
  • 12:00 Gianvito Cassanelli
    • Pina Bausch’s Tanztheater: Embedding Anti Fascism Within the Creative Process
      
      
• Friday, February 27
  • 11:30 Brodie S. Joseph
    • Staging Fear: Performance, Sound, and the Construction of Horror across Stage and Screen
      
      
  • 12:00 Bertie Mahoney
    • Constructing the Gallery: Lighting in Gallery and Museum Spaces and How it Affects Those who Enter
      
      
• Monday, March 2
  • 11:30- Jazz Buskin
    • Theatre as Confessional for the Queer Body
      
      
  • 12:00- Marion Richardson-Beatty
    • Passing and Drag: Models of Gender Construction in Italian Baroque Opera
      
      
• Wednesday, March 4
  • 11:30- Zoe Chinn
    • Biomagnetic Dance: The Interaction of Biomagnetic Fields within Contact Improvisation Dance
      
      
  • 12:00- Ellie Schwartz
    • The Representation of Ghosts on the Early Modern Stage
      
      
• Friday, March 6
  • 11:30- Iman Agic
    • The Digital Body Onstage: Reconfigured Liveness in Hybrid Dance
      
      
  • 12:00- Andrew Van Voorhees
    • Apply Humanistic Psychological Theory to Stanislavshi-Based Acting
      
      
• Monday, March 9
  • 11:30- Jamie Kushnick
    • Acting and Dance: An Exploration of Synthesis
      
      
  • 12:00- Delaney Jones
    • Auditory Architecture: How Sound Design Shapes the Theme Park Experience
      
      
• Wednesday, March 11
  • 11:30- Samantha Knofler
    • Always the Victim, Never the Victor: Women and Gun Violence in Theatre
      
      
  • 12:00- Quinn Newberry
    • You Can Certainly Try: The Implementation of TTRPGs as a Theatrical Practice
      
      
• Friday, March 13
  • 11:30- Marlee Zimmer
    
    
  • 12:00- Neledi Tshehla
    • Whiteness on Stage

Please join us to to hear this research and celebrate the work of these seniors!