48-1101J The Living News: An Intensive Collaboration Fusing Theater and Journalism

This hands-on, intensive seminar is sparked by The Federal Theater Project’s Living Newspapers of the 1930s - dynamic theatrical productions created by teams of journalists and theater artists, and designed to challenge audiences to face complex social and political issues of the day. Adopting this innovative collaborative structure, students will construct an original Living Newspaper for our time – selecting the topic, researching, news-gathering, conducting interviews, writing and building a draft script, and creating a public staged reading.

3 Credits