Around Campus - Theatrical Stage Make-Up

Posted by Andy Cunningham on February 16, 2024 at 5:00 PM

Students in Theater Professor Ellen (Cap) Corduan, take the next step in her Stage Makeup class in Conlon Fine Arts. The students move from paper to flesh and experiment with various make-up techniques to attain various looks and moods. This lecture/laboratory course investigates the principles, techniques and materials of character stage makeup and practical application. Students will apply, in a production setting, principles, techniques and materials of character stage makeup. They will identify historical justification for period makeup and apply techniques for live animation, clowning and dramatic character.

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Topics: Communications/Media, Theater Program

Around Campus - Acting 1

Posted by Andy Cunningham on February 15, 2024 at 9:45 AM

After some stretching and focusing, students in Theater Professor Mary Vreeland's  Acting 1 course worked on physicalization exercises. This course is an introduction to professional stage performance techniques. Students will learn how to build a character using techniques such as playing actions, status, physical transformation, improvisation, relaxation and script analysis.

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Topics: Communications/Media, Theater Program

Around Campus - Theatrical Stage Make-Up

Posted by Andy Cunningham on February 5, 2024 at 4:30 PM

Students in Theater Professor Ellen (Cap) Corduan, begin honing their skills in her Stage Makeup class in Conlon Fine Arts. This lecture/laboratory course investigates the principles, techniques and materials of character stage makeup and practical application. Students will apply, in a production setting, principles, techniques and materials of character stage makeup. They will identify historical justification for period makeup and apply techniques for live animation, clowning and dramatic character.

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Topics: Communications/Media, Theater Program

Around Campus - Film School Confidential

Posted by Andy Cunningham on February 1, 2024 at 12:34 PM

Students in Film and Video Professor Robert Harris' Film Styles Genres & Movements class set up and begin recording a session for their Film School Confidential: Stories of Fitchburg State Communications Department Past & Present. The thrust of the project is to produce a compendium of short stories of the students, faculty, alumni of the university's Communications Media Program. Learn about our Film & Video Program here

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Topics: Communications/Media

Around Campus - Technical Theater

Posted by Andy Cunningham on January 28, 2024 at 11:45 AM

Professor Jo Nazro, Fitchburg State University Industrial Technology/Technical Theater alum, starts with the basics to get her Technical Theater students prepared to begin construction for this semester's production. Check back for more details about the production. Learn more about our Theater Concentration here

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Topics: Communications/Media, Theater Program

Stage Movement: Combat - Sword Play

Posted by Andy Cunningham on January 24, 2024 at 7:13 PM

Theater Professor Kelly Morgan teaches students how to utilize the sword as an extension of the character and a a vehicle by which the actor propels the story in his
Stage Movement: Combat in Weston Auditorium. This workshop-oriented course utilizes the basic techniques of movement with emphasis on developing each student's potential for effective physicalization of a character on stage.

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Topics: Communications/Media, Theater Program

Around Campus - Playwriting

Posted by Andy Cunningham on January 17, 2024 at 1:49 PM

Theater Professor Kelly Morgan broke down the workload and expectations for his Playwriting course during the first meeting of the semester. This course is designed to teach students the craft and art of playwrighting for the stage. The aim of the course is to foster and augment the student to engage in the writing of new theater works in the professional arena.

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Topics: Programs and Majors, Communications/Media, Theater Program

Around Campus - Writings in Aesthetics Course

Posted by Andy Cunningham on January 16, 2024 at 4:15 PM

At the onset of his Writings in Aesthetics course, Dr. Robert Carr read an excerpt from A More Beautiful Question to illustrate how questioning can help with making decisions, sparking creativity, strengthening relationships, and transforming business. Located at the interface between theory and production, this course is a writing intensive Communication Studies course that capitalizes on this vantage point to critically examine the professional arts comprising our curriculum, namely film, video, graphic design, photography, interactive media, and professional communication. Through weekly readings and writings, seminar discussions, presentations, and a term length qualitative research project, this writing intensive course bridges the theory/production dichotomy. 

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Topics: Programs and Majors, Communications/Media

Around Campus - Acting 1

Posted by Andy Cunningham on December 15, 2023 at 3:15 PM

Students in Theater Professor Mary Vreeland's  Acting 1 class work on their final scenes in Weston Auditorium last week. This course is an introduction to professional stage performance techniques. Students learn how to build a character using techniques such as playing actions, status, physical transformation, improvisation, relaxation and script analysis. Students perform monologues and scene work for the class and analyze and develop them.

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Topics: Programs and Majors, Communications/Media, Theater Program

Font Design Student Work Exhibitions

Posted by Andy Cunningham on December 13, 2023 at 2:00 PM

Graphic Design Professor  Donald Tarallo demonstrates how to mount and cut out typeface examples on foam core to his Font Design Students before they prepared their own works which will be on exhibit. The student's work can be viewed here at the Fitchburg State University Amelia V. Gallucci-Cirio Library December 13, 2023 - May 5, 2024, and the Worcester Public Library January 3 - 31, 2024. The work will be displayed on the first floor of both locations.

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Topics: Student Experience, Communications/Media, Fine Art