In the fall semester of 2023, Dr. Truett taught “Introduction to Playwriting” in the Department of Theatre and New Dance, Cal Poly Pomona. In this class, students learn how to imagine, create, and complete a short play or performance piece using the building blocks of Aristotle’s Six Elements of Drama. Class exercises also expand the discussion of dramatic structure beyond the standard Western dramatic structure … Continue reading CPP Festival of New Student Plays

Written by Daniel Marcozzi (Created/Developed in Dr. Truett’s Playwriting class) Remote is a surreal and absurdist original play using sound, imagery, and physical theatre to explore anxieties about modern life, relationships, and love. This original experimental performance is inspired, in part, by Samuel Becketts’ Act Without Words I and Act Without Words II, as well as dance theatre techniques and Grotowski’s Poor Theatre. Included in … Continue reading Directing: Remote

“Spectacles of Disappearance: Migration, Man, and Machine.” Published in the journal Latin American Theatre Review. Download Article: LATR Performance Review 2018 Photos of Article 13, an immersive installation first created in 2012 by Mexican theatre company Teatro Línea Sombra in collaboration with the French group Cie Carabosse and performed outdoors in March 2016, as part of the Kimmel Center’s Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts. All … Continue reading “Spectacles of Disappearance: Migration, Man, and Machine”

Read the Original Post @: https://u.osu.edu/globalmobility/2017/12/23/research-update-transnational-performance/ My mission as an artist/scholar is to create work that expands social discourse and instigates introspection about social and political issues. I was born in San Diego, less than twenty miles from the Mexican border. During my childhood in Southern California, I became fascinated by intersections: the places where peoples, cultures, and ideologies converge. This is reflected in my academic … Continue reading Creative Project in Oaxaca, Supported by the Global Mobility Project @ OSU