Articles About Our Work (Selected)

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CRLT Players
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  • Receive, Reorganize, Return: Theatre as Creative Scholarship
    • This article focuses on the use of theatre as a mode of creative scholarship, from the research involved in sketch creation to the presentation of that research to academic audiences. We particularly focus on a specific sketch developed by the CRLT Players - one that explores the consequences of subtle discrimination faced by women scientists in a research laboratory settings- to illustrate the ways in which theatre can engage audiences with research results. The article explains how participation in such performances promotes a more active exploration of scholarship than simply reading or hearing a presentation. Interactive theatre directs and focuses an audience's attention in ways unique to the stage; the embodiment of research in 3-dimensional characters allows spectators to explore multiple perspectives on research results; and the process of critical reflection and facilitated discussion that follows the performance leads viewers to consider changes, both personal and institutional, that can address the issues depicted in the sketch.
    • (Armstrong, S. and Braunschneider, T. (2016), Receive, Reorganize, Return: Theatre as Creative Scholarship. To Improve the Academy, 35: 229-248. doi:10.1002/tia2.20040)
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  • Use of Interactive Theater and Role Play to Develop Medical Students' Skills in Breaking Bad News
    • This article investigates the use of the CRLT Players’ interactive theater and role play with professional actors in teaching breaking bad news to medical students. The authors conclude that the use of professional actors during the role play exercises enhances the realism and pushes the students out of their own comfort zones in ways that may more closely approximate real life clinical situations. 
    • (Skye, E.P., Wagenschutz, H., Steiger, J.A, Kumagai, A.K. (2014). Use of interactive theatre and role play to develop medical students' skills in breaking bad news. Journal of Cancer Education, 29 (4). Retrieved from http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24683056)

 

  • Interactive Theatre: Raising Issues About the Climate with Science Faculty
    • An article detailing the CRLT Players’ interactive theater techniques that offer an effective way to raise issues about climate with science and engineering faculty. Sketches illustrating how faculty interactions shape and reflect climate—portrayals of discussions of job candidates in department meetings, efforts of senior faculty to advise and mentor junior faculty, and committee meetings evaluating tenure candidates—stimulate actor-audience interactions and raise key issues about how gender, rank, ethnicity, and other aspects of power relations in›uence the climate and faculty morale.
    • (LaVaque-Manty, D., Steiger, J., & Stewart, A. J. (2007). Interactive theatre: Raising issues about the climate with science faculty. In A. Stewart, J. Malley, & D. LaVaque-Manty (Eds.), Transforming science and engineering: Advancing academic women (pp. 204-223). Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.)

 

  • Using Theatre to Stage Instructional and Organizational Transformation 
    • This article, which appeared in Change Magazine, succinctly describes why and how the CRLT Theatre Program works as a professional development tool for issues of teaching and learning and institutional transformation. In addition, the article summarizes evaluation data concerning the impact of the Program. 
    • (Kaplan, M., Cook, C.E., & Steiger, J. (2006). Using theatre to stage instructional and organizational transformation. Change Magazine: 32-39.)

 

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