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Completed Masters Theses & Comprehensive Exams

2012

  • Brown, William III
    The Muse of Fire: Exploring Origin Stories of Shakespeare Professionals
  • Peterson, Kimberly
    A Versitile Group of Investigative Theatre Practitioners: An Examination and Analysis of "The Civilians"
  • Sawyer, Paul R.
    Lenses of Change: Angels in America Through Boal, Chekhov and Valdez (CE)

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2002

  • Clark, Kim
    Contemporary Christian Music and Amy Grant
  • Igoe, John (Jack)
    Computer-based tools and techniques for script breakdown and scheduling
  • Kraemer, Kristi
    Creative Dramatics: understanding teachers' perspectives

2001

  • Chilcott, Karen Babbit
    The Taboo of Holocaust Humor in Theatre, Film and Television
  • Guilford, William
    Adolescent Self-esteem: theatre plays a leading role
  • Guiterrez, Osiel
    The Horrifying Transformation of the Female Monster
  • Hodgen, Wendy
    An Examination of the Unlikely Success of Whoopie Goldberg As a New Kind of Movie Icon

2000

  • Abdelmoisen, Iman
    Belly Dance Iconography and Performance: Western and Middle Eastern perspectives
  • Augustine, Elanya
    Elementary Education and Theatre Arts (interdisciplinary)
  • Chesnut, Donna
    Performer Code: features that define star performance
  • Dallas, Barnaby
    Play, Photoplay and Screenplay: dramatic principles from theater to cinema
  • Dalton, Dawn
    A historical look at the paparazzi phenomenon of the twentieth century
  • Himes, Amy
    Between two mirrors: feminist performance in theory and practice
  • Long, Laura (winner OUTSTANDING THESIS College & University level)
    The meaning of the body in performance: cross cultural casting and racial identity
  • Nichols, Dona
    The city as dramatic character     (interdisciplinary)
  • Thigpen, Heidi
    Movement for the masses: An interdisciplinary study of the performance of marching

    1999

  • Anderson, Yvette Michelle
    Subjectivity and male stardom heterosexual female desire and male performer bodies
  • Smith, Yvette
    Censorship mechanisms in the theatre of the German Democratic Republic 1971-1989
  • Taylor, Kelly S. (winner OUTSTANDING THESIS College & University level)
    Shakespeare's verbal and visual relationship : from silent film to Kenneth Branagh

    1998

  • Lin, Hsiang-Hsiu
    Modern modes of Chinese dance
  • Myrvold, Paul
    Bodily risk in performance: aesthetics of high wire acts
  • White, Kathy
    Mirrors and dance culture: modes of response to the dancer's self-image

    1997

  • Bergeson, Sherry
    Sexual identity, cultural difference, and film performance
  • Black, Anya
    Evaluation of performance values in daytime soap opera
  • DeKraker Lang-Ree, Laura Elizabeth
    Technically dramatic
  • Wu, Yi-Chun.
    Reappraising the cultural identity of Chinese classical dance

    1996

  • Lumley, Glynis E.
    Peter Gabriel's global performance aesthetic
  • Asaumi, Wakaba
    Akira Kurasowa's Image of Women in Throne of Blood

1995

  • Gotcher, Barbara Ann.
    Authorship and performance: a designer's perspective
  • Gutto, Kathleen M.
    Two yet one : defining romance and the courtship ritual through the Astaire and Rogers duet dances of the 1930s
  • Lee, Gordon A. (winner OUTSTANDING THESIS College & University level)
    Perceiving Ingmar Bergman's The Silence through I Ching
  • Snider, Catherine Dana
    Teaching Broadway : musical theater pedagogy in the classroom
  • Zsadanyi-Yale, Amy Elizabeth.
    Grotesque costume in dance performance

1994

  • Broda, Joseph
    Jung and The Godfather movies : analyzing film from an archetypal perspective
  • Hale, Andrew J.
    How voice operates in popular culture through the performance persona of Muhammad Ali
  • Hogg, Tanya Louise.
    Dance aesthetics in music video: 1981-1994
  • Montrezza, Gary Lee
    Kwanzaa in the intercultural performance context
  • Sung, Bih-Tau
    The development of a movement style incorporating Western modern and traditional Chinese classical dance

1993

  • De Wald, Charles
    The ritual dramas of El Teatro Campesino
  • George, Susan Andre
    Follow your enthusiasm: the Jim Henson performance aesthetic
  • Noah, Sarah
    Historical figures in film : the celluloid Christ
  • Popalisky, David J.
    The dancing self exposed : autobiography in dance performance
  • Shepard, William R.
    Computer aided scenic design : resistance to CAD and design of Red Noses
  • Weinert, Kevin Dean.
    Picturing the theater : recontextualization in pictorial dramatic representation
  • Valenti-Hilliard, Beverly
    Propaganda by choice : how propaganda theatre works in the church-sponsored, state-funded, AIDS education play Choices

    1992

  • Bergmann, Janis
    Incorporating performance analysis in the training of an actor
  • Markoff, Luba
    Dance in the political arena : the Federal Dance Project and Helen Tamiris
  • McNelly, Merridee K.
    Defining and implementing performance analysis as a teaching method
  • Morse, Donna M.
    An Investigation of the relationship between narrative dance and language arts skills
  • Panitchpakdi, Pip (winner OUTSTANDING THESIS College level)
    Dusit Thanee : the city of fourth paradise: a political theatre of King Rama VI of Thailand
  • Saxon, Belinda
    Borrowing from the East: a study of types of Western theatre adaptations of Chinese opera, Japanese noh, and kabuki

    1991

  • Evans, Mary Ann
    Yoruba culture and Brechtian convention : decoding converging traditions in Wole Soyinka's The Road for theatre production
  • Buckley, Elisa L.
    Non-traditional casting in deaf-related theatre
  • Andersen-Wyman, Dana Victor
    Art in tension with technology : exploring the human dilemmas

    1990

  • Ammerman, Candace Elaine
    Meaning in dance and its music : a model based on metaphor
  • Barefoot, Sybil
    Sartre--in struggle with god : an examination of selected plays
  • De Jong, Tammy
    Marketing and modern dance
  • Jewett, Charles
    Jessie
  • Munroe, Kristin Ruby
    Proposal for a theatrical avenue to health for promotion controllers: Bulimia Nervosa as a case study
  • Neal, Harry.
    Sunday evening in the park
  • Ragusano, Nicholas A.
    Implementating the theatre/drama portion of the visual and performing arts framework in the elementary schools of the San Ramon Valley Unified School District
  • Tillis, Steve (winner OUTSTANDING THESIS College & University level)
    Towards an aesthetics of the puppet
  • Wadsworth, Rita Faye
    Lifetime theater : a model for community theater based on the philosophy of Martin Buber
  • Zaro, Gary
    An examination of the similarities between theatre and ice hockey

    1989

  • Bradshaw, Kevin Thomas Clifford
    An Analysis of the function of lead types as found in the musicals My Fair Lady and Sweeney Todd
  • Carter, Tom
    The Record of a creative project in directing Yours, Anne
  • Watkins, Gregory Keith
    A Dramatic application of Susanne Langer's aesthetic symbolism

    1988

  • Burdick, Joan Hunt
    The paradox of Jack Cole : innovative choreographer--celebrity unknown
  • Hayman, Elizabeth F.
    Team theatre as a behavioral change agent for corporations
  • Leon, Maria T.
    The application of expressionist visual effects to modern dance
  • Otto, Pamela Walden
    The Tanztheater aesthetic of Pina Bausch
  • Trinkle, Jane
    A study of storytellers in the Pacific Region of the United States
  • Scozzari, Frank.
    Application of theories of comedy to Woody Allen's Play It Again, Sam
  • Stone, Karen
    An historical investigation of the choreographic styles of Merce Cunningham and James Waring and their influence on post-modern dance