 My name is Gillian Rabie. I am an associate professor in the Department of Dramatic Arts here at the Marilyn I Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts of Brock University. I'm very happy to have made the move into this beautiful new building downtown three years ago, 2015. We moved in here. It's a fabulous facility. I am responsible for making probably the maximal use of the facility in this fourth year class that I teach. Dart 4F56, otherwise known as Advanced Theater Studies. This is a course that has evolved to enable students to select two play scripts, which they then produce as a small company. So the idea is that when they leave Brock, they might go on to be able to produce and play any role in the production of a small festival show, a fringe festival show. I have students who are working as sound designers, set designers, projections designers, backstage technicians, operators for all the above, costume designers, props designers, then actors, which is usually the first thing that comes to mind, but is actually only half of any production. The rest goes on backstage. Some of the most important work is done backstage, especially on a show like the one that we're doing right now. There is a publicity committee, and this is a very interesting committee to be on in our day and age, because the job of a publicist has proliferated and continues to do so. So every term, every new show, there are new aspects to the job description of the publicist who's trying to outreach to schools, various different community groups depending on the show, but also on new Snapchats, interactive social media platforms, geotags. As it comes up, the students are on it and they relate it to the work that we're doing and the work that we're doing grows as a result of relating to it, which I guess is sort of the definition of what you want in experiential learning. Its entry is based on portfolio and audition. Sometimes it has been as large as 21 students, other times 17, 16, something like that. I liken it to running 16 independent studies. It's very time intensive and it's very interactive, but the great thing about it is that you're sort of carried along by passion, which I know is one of those flaky things that you're supposed to say if you're a theatre prof, but it totally is true. The plays that we choose all have something important to say. It's very easy to get behind them. You want to do whatever you can to make this production the best possible experience for the students in the class, but also the best possible experience for the audience attending the play at the end. And of course these two things are related, you know?