Rob Roznowski is an award-winning actor, author, director, educator, and playwright. He is a professor at Michigan State University, where he serves as the head of acting and directing in the Department of Theatre. His publications include the books The Introverted Actor, Roadblocks in Acting, Inner Monologue in Acting, and Collaboration in Theatre; numerous plays, and more. He worked as the national outreach and education coordinator for the Actors’ Equity Association and has appeared extensively throughout the United States as an actor and director in New York and Los Angeles, and regionally, at Goodspeed Musicals, Long Wharf Theatre, and the Pittsburgh Public Theatre. He was part of the original cast of I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change and can be heard on the show’s recording. He has directed internationally in Colombia, Dubai, and Greece, where he was a Fulbright Fellow. Among his many awards are the Mid-Michigan Alumni Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching and the Michigan Professor of the Year Award from the President’s Council State Universities of Michigan.
This hands-on and practical workshop will provide participants with a variety of exercises and strategies to help them expand their approach to directing a high school musical. In addition to presenting unique ways to look at musical theatre projects, new and creative perspectives on the staging of solo and group numbers, musical punctuation, and emblematic action will be explored.
During this session, Rob Roznowski will be in his virtual classroom ready to answer specific questions and to provide one-on-one time with participants who desire additional information about theatre related issues or arts education concerns.
During this session, Rob Roznowski will be in his virtual classroom ready to answer specific questions and to provide one-on-one time with participants who desire additional information about theatre related issues or arts education concerns.
In this workshop, Rob Roznowski will discuss how embracing budget and resource limitations can help educators create unique artistic projects. Participants will examine how “constraints” may actually become pathways to unexpected artistic innovation.