Undergraduate Teaching
UNDERGRADUATE TEACHING & PEDAGOGY
Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies, St George / Theatre, Drama and Performance Studies, University of Toronto at Mississauga / McMaster University
UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH & PERFORMANCE PRACTICE SUPERVISION
UNDERGRADUATE COURSE DEVELOPMENT AND INSTRUCTION
UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH & PERFORMANCE PRACTICE SUPERVISION
1998+ University of Toronto St George / University of Toronto Mississauga
Supervisor of numerous Undergraduate Research Assistants, Work-Study Positions, Research Opportunity Program and other variously funded positions employing senior undergraduates in on-going research. Sample descriptions of student duties: primary archival and online research, audio and video accessioning, archiving and editing, organizing and entering data from into database, searching 19th century periodicals, recording and scanning results, involvement in practice-based research using primary documents.
1988-98 McMaster University
Director and Executive Producer for the Department of Drama Major Production, including supervision of all associated Independent Studies (Drama 3Z03) in Dramaturgy, Design, Music, Dance, Production, Stage Management, and Acting:
November 1996 Prometheus Bound (and bound again)
October 1993 Seven Stories
November 1992 The Insect Play (see publications)
November 1990 Dr Faustus
Supervisor for a full season of student-directed plays (1996-7, 1997-8), including administration and guidance from play selection through the striking of the set.
Supervisor of approximately thirty History, Film, and Practical Independent Study students within the Drama Program (exclusive of those associated with the Major Production, see above).
Advisor, McMaster University Summer Arts Festival, 1996, 1997. Although not for credit, this was a student-run public arts festival for which I served in a supervisory capacity.
Supervisor, three Arts and Science Programme Senior Independent Projects
UNDERGRADUATE COURSE DEVELOPMENT AND INSTRUCTION
Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies, St George Campus
2016-2017 On leave; undergraduate affiliation returned to University of Toronto Mississauga
2016 DRM4091H Independent Research Project (Co-taught with Jill Carter)
(Indigenous Theatre and performance in Toronto)
2015-2016 DRM411H Movement in the Theatre (Co-taught/Administered)
2014-2015 DRM328HS Theories of Acting (Winter 2015)
DRM491H1 Independent Research Project: Improvisation (Winter 2015)
2013-2014 DRM328HS Theories of Acting (Winter 2014)
2011-2012 UNI 1021Y Imagining/Engaging Toronto (Winter 2012) with T. Trojanowska
Theatre, Drama and Performance Studies Program, University of Toronto at Mississauga
2018-2019 DRE342H4F Topics in TDP: Performance and Popular Culture. Last undergraduate course taught, organized around visiting artists and researchers.
2017-2018 DRE463H5F Senior Seminar III: Topic: ‘Performance and Popular Culture: History and Contemporary Practice’
DRE342H5S ‘Studies in Twentieth Century Performance Styles’
2016-2017 On leave
2008-2016 Seconded to University of Toronto at St George as Director/CDTPS
2007-2008 Drama 463H Senior Seminar: Performance and Popular Culture (Summer 2008)
2006-2007 Drama 422S Performance and Popular Culture (Winter 2007)
Drama 399Y Research Opportunity Program (2 Summer 2007)
Drama 299Y Research Opportunity Program (1 F/W; 2 Summer 2007)
2005-2006 Drama 350S Genre Studies in Performance
Drama 394F Independent Study (Dramaturgy: Advocacy Theatre)
Drama 394S Independent Study (Dramaturgy: Politics and Dance)
Drama 394S Independent Study (Dramaturgy: Theatre of Boal)
Drama 299Y Research Opportunity Program (2 students)
2004-2005 Drama 352F Stage to Screen
Drama 222S Performance Text
2003-2004 Drama 350F Genre Studies in Performance/Drama
Drama 394F Independent Study (Playwrighting)
2002-2003 Drama 352S Stage to Screen [On Leave July to December]
2000-2001 Drama 350S Genre Studies in Performance
Drama 400Y Dramaturgy and Performance: Senior Studio
ERI 112Y Introduction to Film
1999-2000 Drama 350S Genre Studies in Performance
Drama 400Y Dramaturgy and Performance: Senior Studio
1998-1999 Drama 246S History of Theatre from the Romantics to the Present
Drama 342S Special Topics: Twentieth Century Theories of Acting
McMaster University
1997-1998 Drama 2A06 The Art of Acting
Drama 3A03 Topics in Acting (Acting the Medieval Text)
Drama 3LL3 American and Canadian Theatre History
Humanities 3W03 Applied Humanities (Special Projects Dramaturgy/Publicity)
Drama 4A03 Independent Project in Directing (14 student projects)
1996-1997 Drama 1A06 Introduction to Drama (Summer session)
Drama 2A06 The Art of Acting
Drama 3A03 Topics in Acting (Collective Creation)
Drama 3J03 Topics in Film (Genre Studies)
Drama 4B03 Senior Study in Directing (17 student projects)
Drama 4E03 Senior Seminar: Theory and Practice (Directing and Directors)
Arts and Science 4B12 (The Arts and the Environment)
[Restricted Program; Senior Independent Project]
1995-1996 Drama 1A06 Introduction to Drama (3 units/ half course)
Drama 2M06 History of Theatrical Performance
Drama 3LL3 American and Canadian Theatre History
Drama 4C03 Senior Seminar: Studies in Theatre and Film
1994-1995 Research leave
1993-1994 Drama 2A06 The Art of Acting
Drama 2D06 The Dramatic Text (3 units)
Drama 2M06 History of Theatrical Performance (3 units)
Drama 3LL3 American and Canadian Theatre History
1992-1993 Drama 2A06 Introduction to Acting
Drama 2M06 History of Theatrical Performance (3 units)
Drama 4N03 Senior Seminar: American and Canadian Theatre History
Arts and Science 4B12 (Film Theory, Screenwriting and Practice)
[Restricted Program; Senior Independent Project]
1991-1992 Drama 2A06 Introduction to Acting
Drama 2M06 History of Theatrical Performance (3 units)
Drama/Art History 4S03 Special Studies in Film: Genre
Arts and Science 4B06 (Film Theory, Screenwriting and Practice)
[Restricted Program; Senior Independent Project]
1990-1991 Drama 2A06 Introduction to Acting
Drama 2M06 History of Theatrical Performance (3 units)
Drama/Art History 3TT3 Topics in National Cinemas: Canadian Cinema
Drama 4N03 Senior Seminar: American and Canadian Theatre History
Drama/Art History 4S03 Special Studies in Film: Genre
1989-1990 Drama 1A06 Introduction to Drama (3 units)
Drama 2A06 Introduction to Acting (3 units)
Drama/Art History 2X06 The Art of Film
Drama 4E03 Senior Seminar: Theory of Drama and Theatre
Drama 4F03 Senior Seminar: North American Performance
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