News and Announcements

Puppet Workshop Planned for Block 2

Stephanie Braun Jacobson will offer a one-day puppet workshop to interested students during Block 2.  Jacobson is a puppet designer and puppeteer who has worked with the Jim Henson Studio in New York.

She is a guest artist working with the department on our forthcoming production of Paula Vogel’s The Long Christmas Ride Home, for which she is both designing and building seven Bunraku-style puppets and training student actors in their use.  Her workshop, more information about which will be forthcoming soon, will focus on the use of puppets in improvisational narratives and will be offered to a limited number of students on a first-to-sign-up basis.

New Play Given Reading  

On Sunday September 16, 2007, C. Denby Swanson’s new play Atomic Farmgirl was given a public reading by Cornell Theatre Students. The reading was intended to assist Swanson in the development of her script and was organized by theatre student Matt Babbs.

Atomic Farmgirl is slated for a workshop production in New York in November. Swanson is a professional playwright who last year enjoyed a residency in the Cornell Theatre Department thanks to a grant from The Playwright’s Center to complete a draft of another new play: A Brief Narrative of the Extraordinary Birth of Rabbits. This year she returned to campus as a visiting professor and taught a playwriting course during Block 1.