Dr. Martha S. LoMonaco, PhD.
 

Courses Taught

• Examining the 60s: History, Art, and Legacy, HI 241/VPA 241 and The 60s Project
  This class, team-taught as a 6-credit course, offering credit in both Visual & Performing Arts and History to 120 registered students, was the academic foundation for The 60s Project, a university-wide, multi-disciplinary, semester-long examination of the 1960s in Fall 1999.
   
• Shakespearean and Restoration Comedy Production Seminars, TA 300
  The class enrollment is determined by audition and expressed interest in being involved in an upcoming production. Auditions are held previous to offering the class. The three offerings and attendant productions so far have been: Shakespearean Production, Fall 1994, in preparation for Twelfth Night, Spring 1995; Restoration Comedy Seminar, Spring 1998, in preparation for The Rover, Fall 1998; Shakespearean Production seminar and the production of Henry IV, Part One, Spring 2002.
   
• Asian Theatre, TA 122, and the Tokyo Notes Project
  TA 122 was initially offered Spring 2004 in conjunction with my production of Tokyo Notes. TA 122 is a World Diversity course and is part of the Asian and International Studies Programs.
   
• TA 10, Introduction to the Performing Arts
  TA 10 and its companion course TA 11 are the foundation courses for the theatre major and minor curricula; they also provide a solid introduction to the discipline for the larger student body who take the class for VPA core credit. TA 10 focuses on theatre as an integral component and reflection of society while TA 11 concentrates on how theatre is created.
   
• TA 11, Introduction to Theatre
  For a description of the evolution of TA 11, please see TA 10 above.
   
• TA 30, Acting I
  The course provides a firm grounding in the use of voice and body for actors and others who wish to develop communication and presentation skills. In addition to performance workshops, the class entails formal research and writing, and keeping a journal.
   
• TA 110, History of Theatre I
  TA 110 is a required course for VPA/Theatre majors. It is also open to theatre minors to fulfill their theatre history requirement and to all students for VPA-History core credit and is offered every other fall semester.
   
• TA 111, History of Theatre II
  A required course for VPA/Theatre majors, TA 111 is also open to theatre minors to fulfill their theatre history requirement and to all students for VPA-History core credit. It is offered every other fall semester.
   
• TA 120 and EN 264, American Drama (U.S. Diversity)
  This course surveys American playwrighting and performance from Colonial times to the present day. It focuses, not only on the development of the American voice, as realized through drama, but how race, gender, and class have infused and even transformed that voice.
   
• TA 230, Acting II
  This is the middle of a three-course sequence beginning with TA 30, Speech and Movement, and culminating in TA 300: Special Topics, Advanced Acting Scene Study. Acting II explores the art form from practical, theoretical, and historical perspectives. Coursework includes movement, voice and sound, focus, observation, how to read and interpret scripts, and characterization in interactive workshops that culminate in classroom performances. The course also includes a historical overview of the discipline and a consideration of the work of major practitioners and theoreticians.
   
• TA 240, Technique & Art of Directing
  TA 240 is an upper-division elective for VPA/Theatre majors and minors, offered bi-annually in the fall semester. This course for advanced students covers the theory, practice, and history of directing for the theatre. In a workshop/seminar format, students explore various ways of bringing a play script from conception to full production.
   
• TA 300, Special Topics: Advanced Acting, Scene Study
  TA 300 is a third-level acting course for advanced students, focusing on intensive scene study of period and contemporary drama.
   
• TA 310, Technique & Theory of Production
  TA 310 is the theatre capstone course for majors and for selected minors upon application.
   
• TA 420, American Drama & Society
  TA 420 is a graduate seminar for the American Studies Master’s Program which considers the development of American theatre and playwrighting within the larger context of American social, political, and economic history.
   
• TA 452, The Arts in America: 1950 to the Present
  TA 452 is a graduate seminar for the American Studies Master’s Program. The course grew out of the undergraduate Examining the 60s: History, Art, and Legacy class and explores the social, economic, and political forces the shaped American arts and entertainments of the second half of the twentieth century.
   
• TA 94, Theatre Fairfield Performance Practicum
  Two sections of TA 94 are offered every semester to give one credit to actors appearing in Theatre Fairfield productions.
   
• TA 95, Theatre Fairfield Production Practicum
   
• HR 101, Minds and Bodies
  HR 101 is team-taught with Prof. Richard DeWitt, Department of Philosophy, and considers various perspectives on minds and bodies through the multiple lenses of philosophy, theatre and performance, sociology, and the philosophy of science