Original Works - Cornish College of the Arts

Original Works from Cornish College of the Arts is a Campus Bachelor Film degree that prepares you for a Art and Design career. The Theater Department offers you a comprehensive curriculum that enables you to build the physical, vocal, intellectual, and imaginative skills to make a life for yourself as a theater artist. While you are studying, you put those skills to the test in a wide variety of performance opportunities, including productions of classical and contemporary plays, ensemble-generated productions, and a large number of new plays written by student authors. The department is designed to provide a safe learning environment where you can grow and challenge yourself, both as a human being and as a theater artist. Emphasis is placed on the ethics of theater as well as on the skills and crafts. You, your peers, and your instructors focus on supporting each other as individuals and as an ensemble. The Original Works Program provides a unique opportunity to create your own synthesis of writing, directing, personal clown, and ensemble-generated performance. Finally, the setting of a theater program within a dynamic and interactive arts college gives you more opportunities for cross-disciplinary collaboration. Original Works The Original Works Major is designed for artists whose goals are to generate original performance pieces, and/or to operate as members of the artistic staff of a theater. After successful completion of an audition at the start of the junior year, you explore a wide variety of generative methods, including playwriting , directing, personal clown and other physical/improvisational approaches, as well as self-producing and dramaturgy. In the fourth year, your Senior Thesis should be a generative piece, either one written by you or one that is created by an ensemble under your creative supervision and which reflects your particular aesthetic vision. View more details on Cornish College of the Arts . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Film courses.