Dramaturgy as Curation

Dramaturgy as Curation: Bringing Literature to the Stage Wed Oct 18, 2017 Christopher Herold, Continuing Lecturer, Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies; Director of Program, Summer Training Intensive, American Conservatory Theater, UC Berkeley Nina Ball, Award-winning Set Designer, American Conservatory Theater, Aurora Theatre, Marin Theater Company, Shotgun Players Christopher Herold and Nina Ball, director and designer for the fall 2017 TDPS production of Mary Zimmerman’s Metamorphoses, will explore upon their process and decisions in bringing this work of literature to the stage-- how they visualized Zimmerman’s fantastic world where the human and the divine collide and where actors perform in a large pool of water. Christopher Herold is a Continuing Lecturer at the Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also the Director of Program, Summer Training Congress at the American Conservatory Theater (ACT) in San Francisco. In Berkeley, his directing credits include productions of Our Town, Sauce For the Goose, and The Crucible. Locally, he has appeared in roles at venues including the Aurora Theatre, The Magic, Central Works, and Yerba Buena Gardens. Nina Ball is a Scenic and Costume Designer whose designs have been seen at American Conservatory Theater, California Shakespeare Theater, Marin Theatre Company, and much more. Her recent awards include SFBCC awards for her designs of My Fair Lady at San Francisco Playhouse, a Broadway World San Francisco Award for Care of Trees at Shotgun Players, and an Arty Awards for her design of Eurydice at Solano College Theatre. In addition to theatre, she has worked on numerous film, TV and commercial productions locally and in LA. ----- A+D Wednesdays is a public lecture series embedded inside our Creative Gateway undergraduate course. The series exposes students and the public to a range of creative forms across the visual arts, performance, literature, film, and design. It introduces students and the community to our campus’s major museums, presenters, and academic departments, as well as to select Bay Area arts organizations and regional partners. Arts + Design Wednesdays @ BAMPFA: Experiment and Exploration In order better to serve our students and public and to gauge audience, we will now ask you to reserve a your seats in advance. Seats will be made available 10 days in advance of the talks on this website, social media platforms, and in the newsletters. This series explores the exciting world of the Bay Area’s alternative, underground, and experimental media arts communities and the ways they have transformed contemporary art and media culture. Led by UC Berkeley Associate Professor of Film and Media Jeffrey Skoller, the series engages prominent media artists, curators, and critics to explore the idea of experimentalism in art as a risk-taking approach to creative expression and as a philosophical position that emphasizes art as process and invention over product and professional mastery. Arts + Design Wednesdays @ BAMPFA is organized and sponsored by UC Berkeley’s Arts + Design Initiative in partnership with Big Ideas courses. In-kind support is provided by BAMPFA.