Midway through orientation week"awash in a sea of new acronyms and small talk"the seventy-some new students of the Yale School of Drama are herded into a theater to hear speeches from the heads of each of YSD's nine departments. The unlikely star of this event is Catherine Sheehy, chair of Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism, whose easy, wry humor goes a long way to humanizing the mysterious department that students wh…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 02:47PM on July 16, 2013