TDM Open Seminars

Theater, Dance & Media welcomes Jillian Walker songwriter, storyteller, healing practitioner, and award-winning playwright-performer to Playwriting: Intersecting Americas (TDM 165H) led by Phillip Howze. This is a somatics-based workshop where...

Join Transformative Design: Introduction to Costume Design (TDM 158A) in a Q&A with Robert O'Hara regarding his work as director and playwright. This event is open to the Harvard students only. RSVP via the link at the bottom of the page. ABOUT ROBERT O...

Bessie Award-winning interdisciplinary artist Jonathan González will be leading an introduction and embodied workshop related to their interdisciplinary performance practice, followed by a question and answer session. All students are welcome to join and...

Artist VLM presents an artist talk and behind-the-scenes look at her surreal life as a working woman who labors as a professional Graphic Recorder by day and crafts experimental video art by night. VLM will discuss her career as 'Business Witch' and share...

In this TDM Open Seminar, writer EllaRose Chary, director Jay Stull and composer Erato A. Kremmyda will discuss their investigative approach to theater making--a process they call Horizontal Theater--alongside their current work-in-progress “Untitled New...

In this Open Seminar, theater-makers Nehemiah Luckett and Joshua William Gelb discuss their recent production The Jazz Singer, a theatrical response to the 1927 film of the same name, which was historically significant for its integration of synchronized...

Please register at the bottom of this page. ABOUT THE OPEN SEMINAR In this TDM Open Seminar, director Tina Satter will discuss her recent production Is This a Room, hailed by the New York Times as a “sharp, blindingly polished slice of theater vérité,”...

Artist Haein Kang is working at the intersection of art and technology. Her work begins with insights into the driving forces that developed machine civilization. Along with the trajectory of her work, we look at the relationship between human and machine...

Carmelita Tropicana has been performing in New York’s downtown arts scene since the 1980s, straddling the worlds of performance art and theater in the U.S., Latin America and Europe with her irreverent humor, subversive fantasy and bilingual puns. She...

In the early days of this century, 13 playwrights joined forces so they could see their work fully produced in New York under their own artistic leadership. They called themselves 13P and announced that their mission was to produce 13 plays, with each of...