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Elizabeth J. Krane ’11, current president of the HRDC, said she shares the concern that the Dramatic Arts committee’s resources would only be available to concentrators. Furthermore, she says, fewer people might participate in student-run theater productions if there were a Dramatic Arts...
Students involved in the dramatic arts say they are concerned that space constraints will only worsen if a concentration is created and the Dramatic Arts faculty does not grow.
Some students say they prefer to focus on other academic subjects while remaining involved in drama. English concentrator Matthew I. Bohrer ’10 says that he relishes being able to focus on English while pursuing Dramatic Arts as a secondary field and participating in student-run productions.
But others say they would support a concentration in the Dramatic Arts. Bendorf, who created her own concentration, says that having a clearly defined advising structure would make it easier for students to pursue their interests.
Because of financial difficulties and student ambivalence, it appears unlikely that a Dramatic Arts concentration will be developed soon. But with students shaping resources to their interests and learning how to independently lead their own productions, it appears that for some aspiring actors and directors, Harvard’s decentralization...