More and more artists are multi-hyphenate like actor-writer-coder, designer-director-singer, or dancer-landscape artist-filmmaker. Whether making different kinds of work or taking on various roles in the process, this course will help you find the multitude in yourself and art. The Creative Spark focuses on nurturing creativity, curiosity, and a resilient artistic practice in the expanded field of theatre and performance while exploring the contemporary landscape of theatrical approaches to making new work. The class will survey the many roles of creating work as a director, designer, dramaturg, performer, organizer, and generator. The course will also investigate contemporary artists embracing theatrical forms of care, devising, the choreographic, immersive, post-internet, music theatre, staging futures, performance cabaret, mixed reality, and beyond. Students will move between developing their creative practice, researching artists and companies through readings, videos, seeing live performance, and creating work through exercises, workshops, and creative prompts. Some of the artists and companies surveyed in this class include Ligia Lewis, who creates immersive, participatory, sensory environments for audiences; The Builders Association, who make interactive app-driven plays; Justin Vivian Bond, who produces cabarets centering trans and queer experience; Jaamil Olawale Kosoko, who invites audiences to follow them along a cross-platform celebration of black love and power; and Big Art Group, who create queer multimedia performance through a technique called real-time film. The Creative Spark meets once a week for 2 hours and will alternate individual conferences with small group meetings/conferences to include screenings, field trips, and performances. Students will also enroll in two other Theatre Components of their choice to complete their Theatre Third. Students are required to attend scheduled Theatre Meetings and Think Tanks and complete a set amount of technical support hours with student productions in the Theatre Program.