By Gage Picotte (B.F.A. Theatre ’21) On Saturday, February 2, the Divisions of Theatre and Film & Media Arts collaborated in an interdisciplinary workshop in the Kathy Bates Studio. Theatre Chair Gretchen Smith, Assistant Professor of Theatre Kara-Lynn Vaeni and Professor of Practice in Film Lorena Padilla simultaneously guided the students through exercises about acting for the camera and directing actors. The central concept the faculty wanted students to embrace was to focus on the process and not the product of the work, and to actively collaborate with each other. To begin, pairs of acting students were assigned to a film directing student and given a short film scene to prepare and rehearse in 30 minutes. Then, each group got 20 minutes’ filming time with the camera. After each scene was filmed, actors and directors received critiques and feedback from their faculty. As a film professor, Padilla mainly works with actors already in the field. When asked how it was working with student actors, she said, “I found it really refreshing working with actors in training. They were really interested in collaboration, and for me, that’s the most important thing about directing a piece, when you find the right people to work with. I was very happy that our student directors had the opportunity to work with actors in training, because they are directors in training too. If they learn how to talk to actors