Thesis Defense: Flow Theory in the Actor’s Process: Can the Pursuit of Optimal Experience Alleviate Performance Anxiety?

Announcing the Final Examination of Kimber King for the degree of MASTER OF FINE ARTS IN THEATRE

The thesis uses an analysis of the actor’s process through the lens of Psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s Flow Theory. Using practice as research, this thesis attempts to prove that performance anxiety can be alleviated by applying conditions of Flow Theory to the actor’s preparation, rehearsal, and performance process.

Committee in Charge: Vivian Majkowski, Tamur Tohver, Christopher Niess