Melanie Dreyer-Lude, EdD, MFA, MA, BA

Professor, Faculty of Arts - Drama Dept
Directory

Fall Term 2025 (1930)

DRAMA 150 - Making and Performing Theatre

3 units (fi 6)(FIRST, 0-6L-0)

Dramatic improvisation as an introduction to the process of acting and to dramatic form. Prerequisite: consent of Department. Note: Restricted to BA Drama Majors, BA (Honors) Drama students, BEd (Secondary) Drama Majors, and BFA (Technical Theatre; Stage Management) students, or admission by consent of Department based on successful completion of Drama 30 or equivalent. Note: Not to be taken by students with credit in DRAMA 149.

LAB/LECTURE A01 (54240)

2025-09-02 - 2025-12-08
MWF 09:00 - 10:50

Winter Term 2026 (1940)

DRAMA 358 - Beginning Acting Technique II

3 units (fi 6)(SECOND, 0-10L-0)

Script analysis, characterization, and the laboratory exploration of scenes and/or plays drawn from Realism. Prerequisite: DRAMA 356. Note: Restricted to BFA (Acting) students.

LAB/LECTURE B01 (85805)

2026-01-05 - 2026-04-10
MWF 15:00 - 17:50

2026-01-05 - 2026-04-10
T 15:30 - 18:20

2026-01-05 - 2026-04-10
R 16:00 - 18:50



DRAMA 685 - Approaches to Staging the Style Play

3 units (fi 6)(EITHER, 0-3S-6)

Theory and practice of directing extended theatrical styles. Note: Restricted to MFA Directing students, or by consent of the Department. Prerequisite: DRAMA 683.

SEMINAR B01 (88303)

2026-01-05 - 2026-04-10
01:00 - 01:00