π» Cornell Performing & Media Arts unofficial reading list, fall 2026
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Sophomore level
Shakespeare PMA 2670
- The Norton Shakespeare
Intro. to Acting PMA 2800
- Pipeline by Dominique Morisseau
Junior level
Global Dance & Decolonizing Movement PMA 3226
- World Dance Cultures: From Ritual to Spectacle by Patricia Leigh Beaman
American Theatre Stage & Screen I PMA 3757
- The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
- Waiting for Lefty & Other Plays by Clifford Odets
- Machinal by Sophie Treadwell
- The American Dream, The Sandbox, The Death of Bessie Smith, FAM and YAM by Edward Albee
- The Crucible by Arthur Miller
- A Raisin in the Sun & The Sign in Sidney Brusteinβs Window by Lorraine Hansberry
- At Home at the Zoo by Edward Albee
Fundamentals of Directing I PMA 3880
- Backwards & Forwards: A Technical Manual for Reading Plays by David Ball
- The Art of Directing by Kirk et al.
Senior level
Funny Business: Stand Up Comedy & Its Social, Political & Cultural Importance PMA 4671
- The History of Stand-Up: From Mark Twain to Dave Chappelle by Wayne Federman
- Stand-up Comedy in Theory, or, Abjection in America by John Limon
- Yes, I Can Say That: When They Come for the Comedians, We Are All in Trouble by Judy Gold
Queer Archives & Archiving Queerness PMA 4695/6695
- βοΈ Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel
- Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women & Queer Radicals by Saidiya Hartman
- Dead Collections by Isaac Fellman
- My Bad: A Personal History of the Queer Nineties & Beyond by Hugh Ryan
- Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg