For more than 30 years, Princeton Atelier courses have been taught by world-class creators including Nobel laureates, Tony, Obie, Drama Desk, and Grammy Award winners, Pulitzer and National Medal of Arts recipients, and Guggenheim and MacArther “Genius” Fellows. Explore our archive of courses and guest artists below.
2024-25
Baby Wants Candy: Creating Comedy for Television
Instructors: Al Samuels, Allison Silverman
How to Write an Epistolary Novel
Instructors: Alan Zweibel, Patricia Marx
Custom of the Coast: Creating a Small-Scale Opera
Instructors: Kamala Sankaram, Paul Muldoon
How to Write a Musical
Instructors: Greg Kotis, Mark Hollmann
Blood Dazzler: Collaboration and Catastrophe
Instructors: Davalois Fearon, Paloma McGregor, Patricia Smith
The Year That Never Was: Devising a Holiday Special
Instructors: Michael R. Jackson, Rachel J. Peters
How to Write a Song
Instructors: Bridget Kearney, Bartees Strange
Our Embodied America: A Collaborative Workshop of Dance and Poetry
Instructors: Kyle Marshall, Edo Tastic
2023-24
Baby Wants Candy: Creating Comedy for Television
Instructors: Al Samuels, Maysoon Zayid
Moving Images: Mime and Multimedia
Instructors: Bill Bowers, LaJuné McMillian, Scott Illingworth
How To Write a Graphic Novel
Instructor: Everett Glenn
HILDEGARDE: Creating an Opera
Instructors: Gabriel Crouch, Sarah Kirkland Snider
A Blank Page: Creativity, Collaboration, and Adaptation
Instructors: Annie Tippe, Dave Malloy
Space, Time and Creation — A Theatrical Adaptation of Mr g
Instructors: Cara Reichel, Jiyoun Chang
How to Write a Song
Instructor: Bridget Kearney
How To Write a Monologue
Instructor: Will Eno
Performing Marivaux
Instructor: Florent Masse
2022-23
Baby Wants Candy: Creating Comedy for Television
Instructors: Al Samuels, Scott Eckert
How to Write a Musical
Instructors: Greg Kotis, Mark Hollmann
Sex Variants
Instructors: Jessica Mitrani, Steve Cosson
Experiments in Opera
Instructors: Aaron Siegel, A.M. Homes
How to Write a Song
Instructors: Bridget Kearney, Stew
Tap Dance Experiments in Video and Sound/Rhythm: SOIL, SAND, BONE
Instructors: Ariel “Aryel” René Jackson, DeForrest Brown, Jr., Michael J. Love
How to Find a Missing Black Woman
Instructors: Davalois Fearon, Mahogany L. Browne, Patricia Smith
Sites of Memory: Gender, Performance, and the Law
Instructors: Patricia Williams, Autumn M. Womack
2021-22
Baby Wants Candy: Creating Comedy for Television
Instructor: Al Samuels
The Circling Universe
Instructors: Georgia Stitt, Schele Williams
Women’s Work: The Evelyn Brown Project
Instructors: Alice Reagan, Gwendolyn Alker
The Old Man and The Pool: Crafting a Long-form Monologue
Instructors: Mike Birbiglia, Seth Barrish
How to Write a Song
Instructors: Bridget Kearney, Paul Muldoon
Fables of Our Time
Instructors: Josephine Decker, Dan Rothenberg
Athens, Georgia
Instructors: Stew, Paul Muldoon
The Store as Art
Instructor: Joe Scanlan
2020-21
Maximizing the Minimal: Composition and Performance from a Distance
Instructors: Alex Basco Koch, Will Davis
Fantasia! Fantasia!: Dance-Theatre-Media
Instructors: Laura Snow, Raja Feather Kelly
Darkness and Light: Writing, Lighting, Blackness and Whiteness
Instructors: Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Jane Cox
Art and Change in the Panopticon
Instructors: Christine Jones, Gabriel Kahane
How to Write a Song
Instructors: Bridget Kearney, Paul Muldoon
Visualizing the Battle Cry
Instructors: Imani Perry, Mario Moore
2019-20
Sounding Body/Utopic Voice
Instructors: Anaïs Maviel, César Alvarez, Samita Sinha
Spatial Sound: Story and Image
Instructors: Arto Lindsay, Laurie Anderson
Baby Wants Candy: Creating Comedy for Television
Instructors: Al Samuels, Zach Zimmerman
The Understor(e)y: Suspension, Movement, Space
Instructors: Janet Echelman, Jess Rowland, Rebecca Lazier, Sigrid Adriaenssens
2018-19
American Pop: A Masterpiece with a Missing Piece
Instructors: Eisa Davis, Sarah Stern, Trip Cullman
Connecting with The Connector
Instructor: Jason Robert Brown
Radioactive: Wakka Wakka
Instructors: Gwendolyn Warnock, Kirjan Waage
Songs and Stories with Words and Sounds
Instructors: Adam Sliwinski, Eric Cha-Beach, Theo Bleckmann, Jason Treuting
2017-18
Reimagining a Masterpiece: Mozart’s Symphony #40
Instructors: Jayce Ogren, Michael Counts
Who Owns a Song? A Theatrical Investigation of Princeton and Slavery
Instructors: Cara Reichel, Peter Mills
The Care and Feeding of Adults: Making Theater with The Debate Society
Instructors: Hannah Bos, Oliver Butler, Paul Thureen
Grandma’s Russian Painting: A New Performative Installation
Instructors: Basil Twist, Ljova Zhurbin
ROARATORIO: Irish Dance and the Cunningham Technique
Instructors: Jean Butler, Silas Riener
Rising Waters: A Climate Change Game
Instructor: Matt Parker
2016-17
Filmmaking and Dance — Butoh and Technology
Instructors: Josephine Decker, Vangeline
Re-inventing the Guided Tour
Instructors: Jane Cox, Monica Bill Barnes
“Ill Seen Ill Said”: Staging a Beckett Text
Instructors: Fintan O’Toole, Lisa Dwan
Adaptation and Performance with Fiasco Theater
Instructors: Ben Steinfeld, Noah Brody
2015-16
Memory House: Video & Sound Installation
Instructors: Heather Christian, Kaz Phillips Safer
The “Peer” Review
Instructor: John Doyle
Waking the Dead
Instructors: Kevin C. Pyle, Jennine Willett
2014-15
Dance on Camera / DIY
Instructors: Danielle Aubert, Susan Marshall
Princeton Atelier – Pay Attention: The Art of Here and Now
Instructors: Kelly Baum, Jenny Price
Making (Comic) Opera
Instructors: Rinde Eckert, Andrew Lovett
Performing Environmental Stories
Instructor: Marianne Weems
2013-14
Instructors:
Su Friedrich, Katie Carpenter (summer)
Elevator Repair Service
Meg Wolitzer, Suzzy Roche
Rebecca Lazier, Scott Parker
Al Samuels, Baby Wants Candy
2012-13
Instructors:
Susan Marshall, Sharon Moore
Alec Duffy, Mimi Lien, Sylvan Oswald
Steve Mackey, Mark DeChiazza
Rick Moody, John O’Connor
Paul Muldoon, Wes Stace
2011-12
Instructors:
Barbara White, Kate Weare
Susan Marshall, David Lang
Dan Safer, Witness Relocation
Fritz Haeg, Dan Wood
2010-11
Instructors:
Paul Muldoon, Bill Whelan
Susan Marshall, Naomi Leonard
Will Power, Justin Ellington
Jane Golden, Shira Walinsky
2009-10
Instructors:
Adriano Shaplin, Whit MacLaughlin
Wakka Wakka Productions
Susan Marshall, Jeff Sugg
Michael Friedman, Steve Cosson
2008-09
Instructors:
Steve Cuiffo, Trey Lyford, Geoffe Sobelle
Toni Morrison, C.T. Jasper (a.k.a. Christian Tomaszewski)
Laurie Anderson, Perry Cook
2007-08
Instructors:
Accra Shepp, Ed Fausty
Stephen Wangh, Kristin Dombek
Dan Rothenberg, David Brick, Mimi Lien
2006-07
Instructors:
Christine Jones, Steve Cuiffo
Jonathon Appels, David LaMarche
2005-06
Instructors:
Mendi and Keith Obadike
Maria Tucci, Allegra Kent
Toni Morrison and Greg Drasler, Brian Jermusyk
2004-05
Instructors:
Mariana Sadovska, Roger Babb, Lars Jan
Daron Hagen, Paul Muldoon
2003-04
Instructors:
Maria Tucci, Allegra Kent
Nancy Manter, Ben Shedd
Paul Binnerts, Christine Jones
Rinde Eckert, Steve Mackey
2002-03
Instructors:
Richard Price, Roger Babb
Pig Iron Theatre Company
Richard Danielpour, Toni Morrison
Anonymous 4
2001-02
Instructors:
Nicholas Kahn, Richard Selesnick
Yusef Komunyakaa, William Banfield
2000
Instructors:
Irina Nakhova
Evelyn Glennie, Stewart Wallace
Alicia Ostriker, Susana Tubert
Anonymous 4, Peter Jeffery
1999
Instructors:
Daron Hagen, Paul Muldoon
Andrea Modica
John Selya, American Ballet Theatre Studio Co.
1998
Instructors:
Gabriel García Márquez, Toni Morrison
Martine van Hamel, American Ballet Theatre Studio Co.
Susana Tubert, Joyce Carol Oates
1997
Instructors:
Bernice Johnson Reagon, Toshi Reagon
Louis Massiah, Carlton Jones, Charlene Gilbert
1996
Instructors:
Peter Sellars, Carma Hinton, Madame Hua Wen-Yi
Yo-Yo Ma, Richard Danielpour, Edgar Meyer, Toni Morrison
1994
Instructors:
Jacques d’Amboise, A.S. Byatt