Under Graduate Courses
Performance:

• Acting I, II, III
• Oral Interpretation of Literature
• Children's Theatre Workshop (Elementary Education)
• Children's Theatre Workshop (Jr. High)
• Improvisation Drama
• Creative Dramatics
• Voice and Diction

Contemporary Theatre

American Social Problem Plays

Women Playwrights

American Musical Theatre

Make-Up

Summer Theatre

Directing

Theatre Management

Comparative Performing Arts

Research Problems in Performing Arts

Aesthetics of Theatre Production

Anna Antaramian Associate Professor, Director of Theatre M.F.A., New York University  (New York City)

  Anna Antaramian has an M.F.A. from New Your University in New York City, and a B.S. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  She was a professional actress for several years, at one point touring with the Everyman Players throughout the United States and in Europe.  While in New York she worked at the Public Theatre, the WPA, the Colanades Theatre, The Circle-In-The-Square Downtown, The Actor's Studio, The Title Theatre.  In Boston she worked with the Open Door Theatre and in Stamford the Hartman Theatre Co.  She has worked with Israel Horovitz, John Guare, Eric Bentley, Ken Holamon, and Patrick McGuire.  She is the Past President of the Illinois Theatre Association and directs for the Rocky Mountain Repertoire Company in Colorado.  She is Director of Theatre at Northeastern Illinois University.

Stage Center Theatre Season:
  Four Main Stage and seven Studio Series productions are mounted in the academic year.  The Main Stage Productions are directed by faculty and guest directors; the Studio Series Productions are directed by student and guest directors.  Two shows are produced in the Summer Stock Season by faculty and guest directors.

Stage Center Theatre Technical Work:
  Technical assistance is always needed in set construction, props, lights, costumes, make-up, and publicity.  We encourage student designers in sets, lighting and costuming with proper guidance.

Stage Center Theatre Acting/Directing:
  Auditions are open for all productions to any interested individuals including NEIU faculty, staff, students, off-campus professionals and amateurs.

  If you are interested in directing, acting, or any technical work, please contact Professor Antaramian.

Speech/Perf 333
Contemporary Theatre
Exploring plays from the latter 20th century considered "modern", experimental, avante-garde.

Speech/Perf 253
Acting I 
Exploring what acting is; the who, what, where, when of a character.  Class 
will include the study of intentions, beats, objectives through monologues 
and scene work.

Speech/Perf 130
Introduction to Theatre
Exploring the world of theatre in an introductory manner.  Offering a taste
of theatre through acting, scene and costume design, script reading, playwrighting.