TDPS Production Season

The annual season in TDPS features productions proposed by students in partial fulfillment of their Senior Thesis. Students engage with theater, dance, and performance studies as fields that are interdisciplinary in scope and global in perspective. 

What is the TDPS Production Season?

The TDPS Production Season is built of semester-long productions that use multiple research approaches (historical, textual, archival, embodied, ethnographic, and more) to investigate questions that build on their coursework and are of compelling interest to students and their collaborators.

Combining creative and critical strategies, seniors engage in a sustained, in-depth inquiry over one semester or year. They may choose to work on a production as an actor, director, designer, dramaturg, or choreographer. The Senior Production in Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies gives students an opportunity to engage with theater, dance, media, and performance studies as interdisciplinary research methods. Seniors pursuing these types of productions enroll in one semester of Senior Production in Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies (THST 491a/b) and write a substantial research paper emerging from their work on the production.

Yale Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies uses The Black Box Theater for its senior productions and other curricular productions. Our season can feature up to nine productions in a given academic year. Most of these have been proposed as senior productions by TDPS majors in their final year. Other senior productions take place in residential college theaters and elsewhere. These productions may be student- or faculty-directed. Yale TDPS produces an impressive range of productions, and our seasons often include multiple world premieres.

TDPS Producer’s Packet.

Productions are presented in the Black Box Theater (53 Wall St., New Haven), unless otherwise noted.