北京大學英文戲劇研習社北京大學英文戲劇研習社
English Drama Society (EDS), Peking University
依託北京大學外國語學院和北京大學外國戲劇與電影研究所的強大資源優勢，協會將努力構建出更自由、更廣闊、更專業的交流平台，創立北京大學乃至全國最大的學生英文戲劇研究、創作、表演團隊，給所有愛好英文戲劇的朋友們。
協會的口號——
Embrace
Devote
Share
協會的品牌——
每學期1-2部主打大戲，由國外知名導演親臨指導，全校範圍招募演員、劇務，在校園內掀起英文戲劇之潮；
英文戲劇研讀——Reading Club活動；
英文戲劇選段表演作坊——戲劇實踐，秀出你的自我；
英文戲劇創作 Playwright of Peking University （POP/北大劇作家項目）；
英文戲劇系列培訓（如“明日之星養成計畫”）、講座等。
在這裡，EDSers的收穫將是： 充分領略世界戲劇藝術的魅力，提高英文戲劇鑑賞能力； 以舞台、幕後實踐的方式，提高表演能力，科學有效地提升英文水平； 通過獨立的戲劇創作以及專業的指導，提高英文戲劇劇本寫作水平和原創能力； 獲得更多的機會，和國內外高校和藝術團體進行戲劇交流； 開創自己的平台，發展個人愛好並與廣大同學交流、切磋和研習。
以往劇目/Previous Programmes：
2007 《大海岬》 Big Sur
2007 《偽君子》 Tartuffe
2007 《美杜莎傳說》 Medusa's Tale
2007 《冥獄的春季女神》 Persephone Underground
2008 Playwright of Peking University (POP)
2008 King Lear (By PKU Institute of World Theatre and Film)
2008 當代英文短劇匯演
2009 Julius Caesar
2009 Einstein's DreamS
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POP Project/北京大學劇作家(POP)項目：
POP（Playwright of Peking University）Project是北京大學英文戲劇研習社（PKUEDS）為北大眾多英文戲劇愛好者演出自己創作的戲劇所建立的平台。
POP項目旨在通過獨立的戲劇創作以及專業的指導，提高廣大同學的英文戲劇劇本寫作水準和原創能力，展現北京大學豐富多彩的原創校園文化。目前這一項目已發展成為北大英文戲劇研習社的一個重要品牌活動。
2007年春季學期，在美國著名劇作家Frank Gagliano的指導下，北大學生創作出了眾多的優秀劇目。2008年5月，EDS攜手北京大學外國戲劇與電影研究所，將其中的4部搬上舞台：On the Lantern Festival《元宵節》，A Summer's Tale in Winter《冬季的夏之傳說》， The Arson《焚城》以及Eurydice's Escape《逃離我的愛人》。
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About POP Instructor：
Frank Gagliano
Frank Gagliano was born in Brooklyn, NY and was educated at The University of Iowa (BA), and at Columbia University in New York (MFA). Frank Gagliano was part of the 1960’s group of Off-Broadway playwrights who revitalized American drama. Gagliano's Off Broadway plays include: Conerico Was Here To Stay (at NY’s Cherry Lane Theatre); Night Of The Dunce (first developed as The Library Raid, at Houston's Alley Theatre, directed by Nina Vance), produced in New York at The Cherry Lane Theatre); Father Uxbridge Wants To Marry (first developed at the O'Neill Theatre Center, produced at New York's American Place Theatre, starring Olympia Dukakis, and later televised on New York's WNET-TV, starring Roy Scheider); and The City Scene (Conerico and Paradise Gardens East). Other plays have been produced in regional theatres and universities throughout the country. He is a member of the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP). Mr. Gagliano was invited to teach a semester of playwriting at Peking University in the spring of 2007. At that time, he also had his play, Big Sur, produced at the Beijing Institute of World Theatre and Film, directed by Joseph Graves.
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Joseph Graves
Artistic Director,
PKU Institute of World Theatre and Film
Joseph Graves is the Artistic Director of PKU Institute of World Theatre and Film which produces theatrical productions, promotes and sponsors artistic/cultural exchange between the professional theatre communities of China and those of other countries, as well as facilitates university theatre education across Mainland China. Over the last thirty years, Joseph has directed over fifty stage productions, including classical, contemporary, musical theatre and opera, in America, Great Britain and China, such productions include Romeo and Juliet, Richard III, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Alchemist, The Sea Gull, Three Sisters, Wild Duck and Fiddler on the Roof, at such notable venues as The Welsh National Theatre, The Royal Court Theatre, The Haymarket Theatre (West End), in Great Britain and numerous theatres throughout America as well as several in China. He has appeared as an actor in over one hundred stage roles, and dozens of television productions, performing such famous characters as Hamlet, Henry V, King Lear, Richard III, Tartuffe and Uncle Vanya to name but a few. Graves has also written extensively for film and stage, including such films as Sweetwater for Viacom, and Hannah and Jack for Academy Award winner, Sir John Mills, along with many others. His plays, such as Revoco, Bunyan, and Word Circus, have received productions at such venues as The Wilshire Theatre in Los Angeles, Perth Repertory Theatre in Great Britain and The Moscow Arts Theatre in Russia. Joseph received his formal theatrical training at The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA).
