Taylor met with a dozen students to discuss how, using today’s technology, she can better reach audiences not only during a performance, but before and after to broaden the theater experience.

Students will engage with Taylor, a Golden Globe winner, over the coming months to bring new components to her stage performances. The collaboration is part of the History of Drama III theater course in spring 2015.

Taylor’s play tells the story of an aging Chicago book publisher who’s business is going under and his struggle accepting the public’s preference for ebooks over real books.

“Change is inevitable,” Taylor said. “It’s how we deal with change, how we grapple with change. Can we survive?”

Taylor said she hopes to “work with young people to collaborate, to talk about the themes of the play and, according to their discipline—theater, film, music, dance—to have them take those themes and create their own pieces that would live online and also might live in different spaces around Chicago.”

Set. Reset. is set to open in May 2015 at the Goodman Theatre, where Taylor is an artistic associate.

In 2012, Taylor received an Honorary Doctorate from Lake Forest College.

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