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"This book traces the trajectory of the first fifty years of PlayMakers Repertory Company (PRC). As you will read in the pages that follow, when Tom Haas and Arthur Housman conceived of PlayMakers Repertory Company in 1975, they created a unique institution, a professional theatre company not only located on the campus of a major research university, but one embedded within UNC's Department of Dramatic Art. That combination of professional artistic achievement coupled with the highest quality theatrical training characterizes PlayMakers Repertory Company from its inception to the present day.…mehr

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"This book traces the trajectory of the first fifty years of PlayMakers Repertory Company (PRC). As you will read in the pages that follow, when Tom Haas and Arthur Housman conceived of PlayMakers Repertory Company in 1975, they created a unique institution, a professional theatre company not only located on the campus of a major research university, but one embedded within UNC's Department of Dramatic Art. That combination of professional artistic achievement coupled with the highest quality theatrical training characterizes PlayMakers Repertory Company from its inception to the present day. Then as now, the core of the resident company--composed of faculty who are both teachers and practitioners--along with the graduate students in the Department's three MFA programs, is constantly supplemented by the best directors, designers, and performers working in the field today. Graduate students receive professional training during the day from teachers who become their collaborators at night both off and onstage. Undergraduates learn from faculty members who are constantly moving back and forth between the classroom and the stage, with the knowledge gained in one realm sparking creativity in the other"--
Autorenporträt
Bobbi Owen is the Michael R. McVaugh Distinguished Professor of Dramatic Art at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has been the resident costume designer for PlayMakers Repertory Company since its inception and has also designed for many regional theatres, including Charleston Stage and the Indiana Repertory Theatre. She has written several books and hundreds of articles about theatrical designers while teaching costume history and costume design. Adam Versenyi, a dramaturg, theatre scholar, and translator, is the founder and editor of the online journal, The Mercurian. He joined the UNC-Chapel Hill faculty in 1988, has been chair of the Department of Dramatic Art since 2014, and is senior dramaturg for PlayMakers Repertory Company. He teaches theatre history and literature including Latin American and Latino/a/x Theatre and Performance.