Audio Confessions–Form, Empathy, and Character Play with Caitlin Saylor Stephens, Instructor

The most compelling character discoveries are often made when a character is in crisis. The chaos of crisis feeds a plot, raises stakes, and deepens a creator’s connection to the material.

During this exercise, students created monologues using dictation as a generative method to explore their character in crisis. The process entailed recording unedited improvised confessional speeches, transcription, editing, and rerecording audio.

These Audio Confessions are a process-based exploration using an interdisciplinary generative method combined with character embodiment to further explore character.