Beyond the Page
Regardless of whether this falls under the classification of fanfiction, fans who create this work are still engaging in a generative fan practice. For fanfiction that generative practice is writing. For fanart, the practices is drawing or painting. For fan-made musicals, many generative practices must come together to create the final product. While playwrights are writing in a similar manner to fanfiction authors, actors engage in embodying, portraying, and reimagining characters and the stories they are a part of. Beyond the Page explores the differences and similarities between the mediums fans use outside of traditional written fanfiction.