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Theatre Honors Program
Upper level students (Juniors and Seniors) who have a high grade point average and whose skills are judged to be excellent are admitted to the Honors Program, a sequence of three courses: a reading seminar, a practicum with guest artists and a theses project.
The number of honors students rarely exceeds ten. Students have studied ‘popular theatre’, German Theatre, the clown and the circus in modern theatre. Student’s theses have been written papers and directed/designed plays.
TheatreUSF and Theatre Honors Program, Honors College
Honors Productions
2006
LOCAL HABITATIONS
The University of South Florida’s 2006 - 2007 Theatre Honors students presented Local Habitations, an original work based on the writings of two-time Poet Laureate (2004-2006) and Pulitzer Prize winner Ted Kooser.
2005
REMEMBRANCES: THE OPHELIA PROJECT
The Theatre Honors Project for 2005-2006 was organized around a historical study of what has been made of the ‘myth and madness’ of the character Ophelia from Shakespeare’s HAMLET. For nine months students researched the topic under the guidance of Dr. Denis Calandra. Several won grants to travel to New York for research. The group of ten created an original script and with financial support from the Office of Undergraduate Research produced their play in May, 2007 in THR (theatre 2). Dance, music, and unusual visual design enhanced the well received production. For their accomplishments four students won monetary prizes in the annual Von Rosenstiel undergraduate research competition.
2004
Topic: Points of View: Politics and Ideas in the Theatre
PROJECT/PRODUCTION/GUEST ARTIST:
Professor Denis Calandra, along with three USF Honors students ( Jonathon Cho, Christina Julius and Soolaf Rasheid) traveled to Atlanta to see the premiere of 'Maria Kizito' by Erik Ehn, at the '7 Stages" theatre.
 
2004
Topic: Jacobean Revenge Tragedy
PROJECT/PRODUCTION/GUEST ARTIST: Tis Pity She’s a Whore
2003
Topic:
PROJECT/PRODUCTION/GUEST ARTIST: Zastrozzi, Crimes of the Heart, Native Speech
2002
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PROJECT/PRODUCTION/GUEST ARTIST
2001
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PROJECT/PRODUCTION/GUEST ARTIST: Ellis Island
2000
Topic: Physical Theatre
PROJECT/PRODUCTION/GUEST ARTIST: UMO – The Making of GONE WITH THE WIND, A Buffoon’s Tale
1997
Topic:
PROJECT/PRODUCTION/GUEST ARTIST: Dancing at Lughnasa
1995
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PROJECT/PRODUCTION/GUEST ARTIST: Suitcase written by Kobo Abe and Escurial written by Michel DeGhelderode
1994
Topic: Contemporary British Drama
PROJECT/PRODUCTION/GUEST ARTIST: On the Razzle by Tom Stoppard
1992
Topic: The Physiology of Theatre
PROJECT/PRODUCTION/GUEST ARTIST: Barnes' 'It's Cold, Wanderer, It's Cold' and 'Lucy Does a TV Commercial, Vitameatavegamin
1991
Topic: 'Elizabethan and Jacobean Theatre Practice
PROJECT/PRODUCTION/GUEST ARTIST: 'Much Ado About Nothing'
Guest Artists Christopher Stanley working with Honors Program Students
1989 - 1990
Topic: New American Dramatists (Playwrights Eric Overmyer, Jeff Jones and Gary Leon Hill held workshops for the Honors students)
PROJECT/PRODUCTION/GUEST ARTIST: 70 Scenes of Halloween by Jeffrey Jones
A real yet strange play that seems to tell itself through many different stories like a many-sided coin that keeps changing its face. It is a fairy tale of itself, flipping back and forth between an outer focus and an inner focus of the realities of the world of the play and of the world of the actor. The words scratch and claw to a surface sometimes finding gentleness. And.. the demon in me is the demon in me.
 
1988
Topic: Popular Theatre
PROJECT/PRODUCTION/GUEST ARTIST: San Francisco Mime Troupe’s Offshore
Offshore examines issues vital to American Life in the last years of the 20th century: free trade, Asian investment and immigration, the immense possibilities for cross-cultural enrichment, and the reality of interracial conflict.
1988
Topic: Popular Theatre
PROJECT/PRODUCTION/GUEST ARTIST: Poor of New York by Dion Boucicault.
San Francisco Mime Troupe’s director, Daniel Chumley directed TheatreUSF students in this melodrama. The play spans a twenty year period of the 19th century, centering around the bank collapses of 1837 and 1857. Exploring the social impact of the wealthy’s devastation, the playwright provides timely comment on the great leveling effect of financial disaster.
1987
Topic: New German Theatre
PROJECT/PRODUCTION/GUEST ARTIST: Bildbeschreibung by Heiner Muller
1986
Topic: 'Popular Theatre':
PROJECT/PRODUCTION/GUEST ARTIST: Steeltown.
1985
Topic: Contemporary German Drama
PROJECT/PRODUCTION/GUEST ARTIST: Student productions included Franz Xavier Kroetz's Michi's Blood and Friedericke Roth's Piano Play. And Harald Mueller's Flotsam and Jetsam.
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