北京大学英文戏剧研习社（PKUEDS），是北大唯一一家以外国语为媒介、舞台表演与文本研究并重、通过戏剧艺术丰富学生课外活动的兴趣类社团。

北京大学英文戏剧研习社

English Drama Society (EDS), Peking University

依托北京大学外国语学院和北京大学外国戏剧与电影研究所的强大资源优势，协会将努力构建出更自由、更广阔、更专业的交流平台，创立北京大学乃至全国最大的学生英文戏剧研究、创作、表演团队，给所有爱好英文戏剧的朋友们。

协会的口号——

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协会的品牌——

每学期1-2部主打大戏，由国外知名导演亲临指导，全校范围招募演员、剧务，在校园内掀起英文戏剧之潮；

英文戏剧研读——Reading Club活动；

英文戏剧选段表演作坊——戏剧实践，秀出你的自我；

英文戏剧创作 Playwright of Peking University （POP/北大剧作家项目）；

英文戏剧系列培训（如“明日之星养成计划”）、讲座等。

在这里，EDSers的收获将是： 充分领略世界戏剧艺术的魅力，提高英文戏剧鉴赏能力； 以舞台、幕后实践的方式，提高表演能力，科学有效地提升英文水平； 通过独立的戏剧创作以及专业的指导，提高英文戏剧剧本写作水平和原创能力； 获得更多的机会，和国内外高校和艺术团体进行戏剧交流； 开创自己的平台，发展个人爱好并与广大同学交流、切磋和研习。

以往剧目/Previous Programmes：

2007 《大海岬》Big Sur

2007 《伪君子》Tartuffe

2007 《美杜莎传说》Medusa's Tale

2007 《冥狱的春季女神》Persephone Underground

2008 Playwright of Peking University (POP)

2008 King Lear (By PKU Institute of World Theatre and Film)

2008 当代英文短剧汇演

2009 Julius Caesar

2009 Einstein's DreamS

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POP Project/北京大学剧作家(POP)项目：

POP（Playwright of Peking University）Project是北京大学英文戏剧研习社（PKUEDS）为北大众多英文戏剧爱好者演出自己创作的戏剧所建立的平台。

POP项目旨在通过独立的戏剧创作以及专业的指导，提高广大同学的英文戏剧剧本写作水准和原创能力，展现北京大学丰富多彩的原创校园文化。目前这一项目已发展成为北大英文戏剧研习社的一个重要品牌活动。

2007年春季学期，在美国著名剧作家Frank Gagliano的指导下，北大学生创作出了众多的优秀剧目。2008年5月，EDS携手北京大学外国戏剧与电影研究所，将其中的4部搬上舞台：On the Lantern Festival《元宵节》，A Summer's Tale in Winter《冬季的夏之传说》， The Arson《焚城》以及Eurydice's Escape《逃离我的爱人》。

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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).