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Drama School Classes
DRAM 7oa, Stage Management for Theater Managers. An introductory course in the basic techniques and practices of stage management with emphasis on understanding all functions of the stage manager, including his or her duties and responsibilities to the production and to management, and how to establish solid working relationships for the benefit of the production and organization. This course also presents an overview of techniques and guidelines used when stage-managing productions at the School of Drama. Mary Hunter.
DRAM 141b, Law and the Arts. An examination of the legal rights and responsibilities of artists and artistic institutions. Topics include the law of intellectual property (copy-right and trademark), moral rights, personality rights (defamation, publicity, and privacy), and freedom of expression. The course is also an introduction to the structure and language of contractual agreements, and includes discussion of several types of contracts employed in the theater. Other legal issues relating to nonprofit arts organizations may also be discussed. Joan
Channick.
DRAM 191b, Managing the Production Process. An investigation of the relationship between the artistic director and the managing director. This course explores the role of a managing director in the production process of regional theater, including season planning, artistic budgeting, contract negotiations, artist relationships, and production partnering. Victoria Nolan.
DRAM 2o1a, Managing the Institutional Theater. Using the regional theater 's model of an artistic director and a managing director in partnership, this course explores their relationship to the institution 's trustees, staff, and community. Victoria Nolan.
DRAM 241a, Commercial Theater. This seminar surveys the business aspects of producing. Relationships examined include those with the author, director, cast, other personnel, the theater owner, unions, and agents. Other topics include financing, touring, and press relations. Benjamin Mordecai.
DRAM 281b, Strategy. Strategy is the match between a theater organization 's qualifications and the opportunities afforded by a changing environment. It provides a guide to allocating human and financial capital when times are good, and to seeing opportunities for progress when times are bad. In seven four-hour sessions consisting primarily of case discussions, this course shows how to identify the organization 's mission, analyze its internal and external environments, identify its strategy, resolve tensions between mission and strategy, analyze organizational culture, and adapt the culture in order to implement robust strategies. Edward
Martenson.
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