Course Description
Students create, produce, and market their own original artistic work. Create press releases, websites, and social media. Research and write grants to fund work. Learn tools to document their creative work as applied scholarship. Develop critical assessment tools for artistic process. Create CV's, teaching philosophies, and practice academic interviews.
Athena Title
Performer as Entrepreneur
Non-Traditional Format
Practicum.
Prerequisite
THEA 7590
Semester Course Offered
Not offered on a regular basis.
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Course Objectives
This course is meant to provide graduate students in the MFA Acting Program the necessary skills for self-initiating artistic and scholarly projects and to guide them through the various opportunities available to them upon completion of their degree in pursuing work in both the professional and academic arenas. It is a chance to reflect on the varied tools, knowledge, and experience they have gained pursuing their degree and synthesize them in a more cohesive, meaningful, and focused manner. Students will better understand the empowerment that comes with true ownership of their careers and artistic process, as they encounter specific questions and issues regarding their role and purpose as an artist and scholar. Students will learn the practical and artistic skills needed to create and produce their own work and to find employment in their area of interest. They will experience the complexities, joys, obstacles, and satisfaction that comes from blending the personal, the aesthetic, and the practical into their life journey.
Topical Outline
1) Creating and Marketing Your Brand 2) PR, Social Media 3) Creating a Website/Online Portfolio 4) Resumes, Headshots 5) Creating and Producing Original Work 6) Keys to Interdisciplinary Collaboration 7) Grant Writing and Funding 8) Documenting Applied Creative Research 9) Critical Assessment Process 10) CV, Teaching Philosophy, Cover Letters 11) Conducting an Academic Job Search 12) Conducting an Artistic Job Search 13) Presentation of Work in Festival