Rachel Bowditch, PhD, is Professor of Theatre in the School of Music, Dance, and Theatre at Arizona State University, USA, and a theatre director. Bowditch is author of On the Edge of Utopia: Performance and Ritual at Burning Man, Performing Utopia, and Physical Dramaturgy: Perspectives from the Field.

Paula Murray Cole, MFA, LMT, is Associate Professor of acting, voice, movement, and the Alexander Technique in the School of Music, Theatre and Dance at Ithaca College, USA. Cole acted in Schechner's productions and has taught and developed Rasaboxes and The Performance Workshop (TPW) since 1999.

Michele Minnick, PhD, CMA, is an independent artist, scholar, and educator, whose current work focuses on the intersections of performance, somatic practice, social justice, and climate change. She is a core creator with Submersive Productions in Baltimore, MD, and the founder of Vital Matters.

Part I: History and Theory

1. Richard Schechner and Origins of The Performance Workshop

Cobina Gillitt and Michele Minnick

2. What is Rasa?

Shanti Pillai

3. Rasaesthetics

Richard Schechner

Part II: Practice

4. Inside The Performance Workshop

Paula Murray Cole, Michele Minnick, and Rachel Bowditch

Part III: Facilitating The Performance Workshop

5. Principles of The Performance Workshop: An Interview with Richard Schechner

With Paula Murray Cole, Michele Minnick, and Rachel Bowditch

6. The Unavoidable Guru: Roles of The Performance Workshop Leader

Scott Wallin

Part IV: Notes from the Field

7.Freeing Emotional Expression in Young Performers: Rasaboxes in K-12 Context

Elise Forier Edie

8. Psychophysical Preparation for the Rasaboxes with Strasberg and Stanislavski

Ursula Neuerburg

9.Adapting Rasaboxes to RasäTherapy: Clinical Applications in Drama Therapy

Andrew M. Gaines

10.Rasaboxes, Drama Therapy, and Stability Through Dynamic Change: A Case Study

Dana Arie

11. Rasaboxes in the Training of Drama Therapists

Nisha Sajnani

12. Dancing on the Tongue

Erin B. Mee

13. Lights, Camera, Action! Rasaboxes Training and Coaching for Brazilian Telenovelas

Fernanda Guimarães

14. Character Building Through Rasaboxes: Staging Electra at Teatro Prometeo

Fernando Calzadilla

15. Experimenting with the Clown in Rasaboxes

Ana Achcar

16. Dramaturgy of the Emotions: The Performance Workshop and Rasaboxes in Directing Machinal

Rachel Bowditch