Graduate Playwriting Research at Hollins (2024)
This page provides guidance to students in Hollins University's graduate playwriting program: how to find materials in the library, and how to do research using sources both in and beyond the library. Welcome!
Craft Books: a Sample
My Broken Language: a memoir by Call Number: HU Gen. Coll. PS3608.U3234 Z46 2021
The Playwright's Manifesto by Call Number: eBook and HU Gen. Coll. PN1661 .S57 2022
Writing Audio Drama by Call Number: E-Book
Playwriting with Purpose: a guide and workbook for new playwrights by Call Number: E-Book and HU Gen. Coll.PN1661 .G64 2022
Writing in Coffee Shops: confessions of a playwright by Call Number: HU Gen Coll PN1661 .C73 2021
Rage and Reason: women playwrights on playwritingCall Number: E-Book (EBSCO)Sarah Daniels -- Debbie Isitt -- Phyllis Nagy -- Anna Reynolds -- Helen Edmundson -- Winsome Pinnock -- April de Angelis -- Sharman Macdonald -- Charlotte Keatley -- Clare McIntyre -- Pam Gems -- Jenny McLeod -- Bryony Lavery -- Tanika Gupta -- Judith Johnson -- Sarah Kane -- Timberlake Wertenbaker -- Marina Carr -- Claire Dowie -- Naomi Wallace.
Creating Comedy Narratives for Stage and Screen by Call Number: HU Gen. Coll. PN1992.8.C66 H43 2021
Staging America: the artistic legacy of the Provincetown Players by Call Number: HU Gen. Coll. PN2297.P7 K44 2023ISBN: 0817321403
Great Monologues: and how to give winning auditions by Call Number: HU Gen Coll PN2080 .A58 2023
Introduction to Speechwork for Actors: an inclusive approach by Call Number: HU Gen Coll PN2071.S65 C373 2023
Stages of Reckoning: antiracist and decolonial actor trainingCall Number: E-Book and HU Gen. Coll. PN2075 .S73 2023
Respect for Acting: expanded version by Call Number: E-Book
The Principles of Comedy Improv by Call Number: E-Book (Project Muse)
Stanislavsky and race : questioning the "system" in the 21st centuryCall Number: E-Book and HU Gen. Coll. PN2062 .S63 2023
Games for Actors and Non-Actors by Call Number: E-Book
Applied Meisner for the 21st-Century Actor by Call Number: E-Book
Staging Story: five fundamentals for the beginning stage director by Call Number: HU Gen. Coll. PN2053 .M67 2022
The Stage Director's Prompt Book by Call Number: eBook and HU Gen. Coll.
Directing Your Heart Out : essays for authenticity, engagement and care in theatre. by Call Number: HU Gen. Coll. PN2053 .D84 2023
My Own Directions: a Black man's journey in the American theatre by Call Number: HU Gen Coll PN2287.E675 A3 2022
Directing Actors: a practical aesthetics approach by Call Number: E-Book
Directing Desire: intimacy choreography and consent in the twenty-first century by Call Number: E-Book and HU Gen. Coll. PN2071.S49 B37 2023
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Maryke Barber
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Contact:
mbarber@hollins.edu
(540)362-6592
Office: Wyndham Robertson Library, 2nd floor, Room 205
B.F.A., Music Theatre, Shenandoah College and Conservatory
M.F.A., Theatre, Virginia Commonwealth University
M.S., Information Science, University of Tennessee
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(540)362-6592
Office: Wyndham Robertson Library, 2nd floor, Room 205
B.F.A., Music Theatre, Shenandoah College and Conservatory
M.F.A., Theatre, Virginia Commonwealth University
M.S., Information Science, University of Tennessee