“Yes, and! Drama: Process and Product”
Professor Rachel Briley
Title: Artistic Director & Professor, College of Visual and Performing Arts, School of Theatre / North Carolina Theatre for Young People (NCTYP)
Description: Rachel Briley is a Full Professor at the University of North Carolina Greensboro (UNC Greensboro). She is head of the M.F.A. program in Theatre for Youth and Artistic Director of the North Carolina Theatre for Young People (NCTYP). She came to North Carolina from Michigan where she served as the Director of Theatre Education at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo. Rachel also taught and directed at Gallaudet University in Washington, DC. She was a teaching artist at Wolf Trap Institute for Early Learning Through the Arts where she conducted professional development workshops for in-service teachers and residencies for pre-school children in Washington, DC, Baltimore, MD, Arizona, and Michigan since 1992. She served on the board of the American Alliance for Theatre and Education (AATE) for four years. In 2004, Rachel was awarded an Ann Shaw Fellowship from TYA/USA to work on Visual Theatre techniques with Tyst Teater in Stockholm, Sweden. She was a member of the 2014 Women’s Executive Leadership program through the Impact Center in Washington, DC. Rachel was invited by the Theatre Communications Group (TCG) to represent the U.S. as a delegate in Santiago, Chile at the 2017 Santiago a Mil festival. She received the prestigious Outstanding Faculty Mentor award from the Graduate School at UNCG in 2018. Rachel was awarded a Research Leave to collaborate with Universidad Alberto Hurtado in Santiago, Chile in Fall of 2019. Rachel graduated Phi Beta Kappa from The Catholic University of America in music (piano) and received her M.F.A. in Theatre for Young Audiences from Arizona State University. She is fluent in American Sign Language and is proficient in Spanish.
Professor Briley, will deliver her insights on process drama as an art form, producing in TYA (theatre for young audiences field) and the relationship between the process and the product. Her former MFA student and UNC Greensboro alum, Derya Agaoglu will facilitate her speech, forming an organic relationship with the audience/attendees.
Derya Ağaoğlu, Ankara University PhD student, will facilitate the Q&A session.