<p>Well in my opinion, this blurring occurs with some of the electives offered along with theater studies. Some of the theater studies courses offered in the fall focused on “interartistic genres”, along with how to perform new media on stage. And a new Tisch StageWorks production in next year’s season will be performed via the internet and not at an actual theater?? I have no idea what they are planning to do with that, but that was supposed to happen this year but got postponed. There is an elective in Screen Acting that is a collaboration between the Stonestreet Screen Acting Studio and the Tisch Undergraduate Film and TV Department. In addition, there was a Tisch StageWorks Cabaret that featured songs from the Graduate Musical Theater Writing Department. Because freshman year you can’t do these Tisch Drama Electives or shows, I was not able to experience these things first hand, but I do know that they exist. Also, I do know that these changes were just proposed this year and probably will be implemented more this upcoming school year. This year was kind of like a “trial year” I guess, as many of the things like having a faculty mentor were only proposals the summer before I arrived but it seems now like they are really making a gigantic effort to implement these proposals (after all, it’s on the brochure).</p>
<p>This year was also the first time that the Tisch Musical (Mainstage/StageWorks/whatever you want to call it) had an orchestra/band from the NYU Steinhardt Music School, and where some of the students in the Grad Design for Stage and Film Department were also involved. </p>
<p>In addition, from what I’ve heard the students in the New Studio on Broadway will be taking piano/music theory classes from faculty in the Clive Davis School of Recorded Music, and there will be collaboration with Grad MT Writing.</p>
<p>As to Writing the Essay, to be honest with you I didn’t have that much of a positive experience with that class, as I was mostly in pain during the regular classes and asleep during the lectures.</p>