Michelle Tailor
Adjunct Lecturer
Speech, Communications and Theatre Arts
EMAIL: mtailor@bmcc.cuny.edu
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Michelle is a performer, director, writer, and theatre academic. She received her MFA in Acting from the University of Florida and her undergraduate degree from San Francisco State University.
Expertise
Degrees
- University of Florida, MFA in Acting 2014
- San Francisco State University, BA in Drama 2000
Courses Taught
- The collaborative nature of the theatrical event will be explored in readings, presentations, play attendance, papers and creative projects. Contributions of the playwright, actor, director, designer, architect, critic, producer and audience will be investigated through selected periods, genres, theatre spaces and styles of production. The student's potential roles and responsibilities in creating theatre will be emphasized.
- The aim of this course is to develop effective skills in speech communication. The student examines how to generate topics and organized ideas, masters elements of audience psychology and practices techniques of speech presentation in a public forum. All elements of speech production and presentation are considered.
- A survey of theatre of the world from its ritual origins to Jacobean England. Major periods explored through reading and viewing significant plays, studying the sociological forces that led to different theatrical forms, theatre architecture, methods of production, playwrights and the relevance of these plays and theatrical forms today.
Prerequisite: THE 100 and ENG 201 or ENG 121
