ACADEMIC COURSES AND WORKSHOPS
An experienced and accomplished teacher, mentor, and dramaturg, R.N. Sandberg is available for script consultation, as well as to teach workshops or courses in playwriting, text analysis, and other areas.  Past workshops and classes include (or view full CV):

Princeton University Theater Courses (semester-long):
THR 205: Introductory Playwriting
Hands on workshop focusing on action, character, environment, inner life, ideas, language, imagination and dramatic structure

THR 287: Acting Text - Comedy
Analyzing and acting comic plays by Shakespeare, Moliere, Wilde, Chekhov, Beckett, Reza

THR 301: Intermediate Acting
A scene study class focused on making choices and how these relate to different acting styles, including realism, Epic Theatre, Greek tragedy, drawing room comedy and farce.

THR 311: Intermediate Acting: Creating Character and Text
Acting class that through improvisation, writing, image and ensemble work creates an original piece of theater focused on a specific subject

Princeton University English Courses (semester-long):
ENG 202: Reading Literature: Drama
Introduction to reading, analyzing and interpreting dramatic literature, using texts by Aeschylus, Euripides, Shakespeare, Wycherly, Ibsen, Brecht, Williams, Beckett, Churchill, Sondheim/Lapine, Smith, Kushner, McCraney

ENG 300: Junior Seminar – Real Life Drama
An examination of how artists turn history, autobiography and public crises into theater and then film. Focus on Richard III, Glass Menagerie and Fires in the Mirror.

ENG 300: Junior Seminar – “American” Drama
An exploration of what it means to be American through the plays of Miller, Albee, Mamet, Shepard, Hwang, Gotanda, Kushner, Wilson, Smith, Dietz, Lucas, Wasserstein, Vogel, Parks, Durang, Haidle, Shanley, Cruz, Kaufman, Mee

ENG 300: Junior Seminar – Political Theatre
An investigation of what it means to be political in plays by Shakespeare, Mamet, Mee, Diamond, Wasserstein, Glaspell, Odetts, Baraka, Stoppard, Brecht, Churchill, Smith, Wilder

ENG 358: Sex, Violence, Death and Other Entertainments for Kids: Challenging Drama for Young Audiences
A survey of the sophisticated, provocative plays that have become part of the cannon of plays for young audiences beginning in the late 20th century

ENG 364/COM 321: Modern Drama
A survey of the plays and writers that created the new forms of Modern Drama, including works by Buchner, Ibsen, Strindberg, Chekhov, Wedekind, Pirandello, Wilder, Brecht, Lorca, Ionesco, Beckett

ENG 380/COM 358: World Drama
A survey of classical and modern drama from Africa, Indian, China, Japan and Latin America

ENG 411: August Wilson
An in depth seminar on Wilson’s Century Cycle plays – one for each decade of the 20th Century, reflecting African-American life

Precepts (small classes):
Taught in ENG 131w Shakespeare (writing course), ENG 311 Shakespeare, and ENG 347 The Curious Aesthetics of Musical Theatre.

Princeton University Freshmen Seminars (semester-long):
Creative Conflict: Plays and Playwriting
An exploration of the role conflict plays – or doesn’t play – in drama through western and non-western theatre

Parental Guidance Advised? – Sex, Violence, Death and Other Entertainments for Kids
An examination of classical and contemporary plays that challenge the boundaries of what is acceptable theatre for kids

Cornish College of The Arts Courses:
Playwriting-Directing Workshop
Year-long course working on the fundamentals of playwriting and directing

Text Analysis I
One semester course for actors on putting basic analysis into practice, using plays by Williams, Ibsen and Chekhov
 
Text Analysis II
One semester course for actors on using analysis and acting non-naturalistic plays such as Shepard, Brecht, Beckett and Ionesco

Classical Text Analysis
Year-long course for actors analyzing and acting classical plays including the Greeks, Elizabethans, Restoration, Moliere

Individual Classes and Workshops
Acting, Theater History and Auto Cours (Lecoq based ensemble creation)

Banner images: Sara Crewe at Seattle Children's Theatre (photo: C. Bennion)