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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 concentration...
...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...
...also says that since Harvard’s theater productions are student-run, she now understands the technical aspects of theater in addition to how to act. With theater resources in their current form, Harvard has “given her more than any other school could have...
David J. Smolinsky ’11, who is involved in theater, including the Hasty Pudding Theatricals, says that he thinks a concentration would “only enhance” student-run productions. “The amazing thing about Harvard is the freedom to pursue your extracurricular activity, so I don’t think it would impinge on the ability to carry out a similar extracurricular program,” he says...
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 of theater opportunities may be an advantage...