{"id":70071,"date":"2013-11-11T10:27:05","date_gmt":"2013-11-11T15:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=70071"},"modified":"2016-07-01T11:14:28","modified_gmt":"2016-07-01T15:14:28","slug":"bates-welcomes-new-faculty-brooke-oharra-theater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2013\/11\/11\/bates-welcomes-new-faculty-brooke-oharra-theater\/","title":{"rendered":"Bates welcomes new faculty: Brooke O’Harra, theater"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Brooke O’Harra, assistant professor of theater. (Phyllis Graber Jensen\/Bates College)<\/p><\/div>\n

Good interviewers ask open-ended questions \u2014 questions that don’t have a choice of answers built in.<\/p>\n

That’s also how Brooke O\u2019Harra, hired this year as assistant professor of theater, approaches a play that she’s creating or directing. Unabashedly experimental, her theatrical work outside academe “is a little bit research-based and a little bit a study of process,” she says. “I never know what a play’s going to be like in the end.”<\/p>\n

Instead, she’s in it for the exploration. “What are the questions and problems of the work going to be? How do I create systems to address those? In a way, that goes back to me being an engineering major” \u2014 which O’Harra was until quite late in her undergraduate career at Lafayette College \u2014 “and having a scientific, mathematical perspective on things.”<\/p>\n

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Read more profiles of tenure-track faculty new <\/em>at Bates in 2013<\/em>:<\/em><\/p>\n