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Technology Takes the Stage

AI, New Media, and the Future of Theatre

  • Webinar
  • Higher Education
  • Event
  • Virtual
  • Theater
  • Theater Appreciation Introduction to Theater
  • Artificial Intelligence (AI)
  • 60 Minutes
  • Live Webinar

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Description

Theatre has always evolved—and today, the pace of change is unlike anything we've seen before. Join us for a dynamic webinar that digs into how artificial intelligence and emerging technologies are reshaping both theatrical production and the way we teach it.

Your guides for this conversation are Al Goldfarb and Megan Geigner, authors of McGraw Hill's Theatre: The Lively Art and The Theatre Experience—trusted resources that have informed theatre education for generations.

What You'll Take Away:

🎭 AI on Stage From acting and directing to lighting and set design, discover how AI and new media are opening creative possibilities—and raising new questions—across every aspect of production.

📚 GenAI in the Classroom Students are already using generative AI. Learn how to meet them where they are—building strategies that harness these tools to deepen critical thinking, spark originality, and strengthen learning outcomes.

Whether you're a seasoned educator or just beginning to navigate this shift, this webinar offers practical insight and expert perspective on one of the most exciting intersections in the arts today.

Reserve your spot—the conversation is just getting started.

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About Your Speaker

  • Alvin Goldfarb

    Alvin Goldfarb is President Emeritus and Professor Emeritus of Western Illinois University. Dr. Goldfarb also served as Provost, Dean of Fine Arts, and Chair of the Department of Theatre at Illinois State University. He holds a PhD in Theatre from the City University of New York. 

    Dr. Goldfarb is the coauthor, with Megan Geigner and Edwin Wilson, of The Theatre Experience and Theatre: The Lively Art for McGraw Hill as well as Living Theatre for W. W. Norton and Company.  He coedited, with Rebecca Rovit, Theatrical Performance during the Holocaust: Texts, Documents, Memoirs, which was a National Jewish Book Award finalist.

    Currently, Dr. Goldfarb serves as the lead scholar for the online Holocaust Theatre Catalog, hosted at the University of Miami. He has also published numerous articles and reviews in scholarly journals and anthologies.

    Dr. Goldfarb served as a member of the Illinois Arts Council, the Illinois Alliance for Arts Education, the Joseph Jefferson Awards Committee, which recognizes excellence in the Chicago theatre, and the board of Chicago's Congo Square Theatre. He received service awards from the Illinois Theatre Association, as well as from the American College Theatre Festival. Dr. Goldfarb also received an Alumni Achievement Award from the CUNY Graduate Center’s Alumni Association and was inducted into the Hunter College Alumni Hall of Fame.

  • Megan Geigner

    Megan E. Geigner is an Associate Professor of Instruction in the Cook Family Writing Program at Northwestern University. She is a theatre and performance historian and scholar with a particular interest in Chicago. Her publications include articles and chapters on the history of Chicago's relationship with: Black activism, the playwright August Wilson, the Little Theatre Movement, and Columbus Day, among others. She is the coeditor of Makeshift Chicago Stages and Theatre after Empire, and she is the coauthor of Theatre: The Lively Art, Theatre Experience, and Living Theatre textbooks.