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    Production Mainstage

    Our Mainstage Season presents 5 productions each year including classics, musicals, plays by contemporary writers and new work. Our Partnership Program brings a team of nationally known artists to create a cutting-edge work with students and faculty.

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    Production Gallery Season

    Our Gallery Season presents ~15 new plays each year by graduate and undergraduate writers.
    Playwrights, directors, dramaturgs, designers, actors, stage managers, technicians and audiences collaborate on new works.

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    Undergraduate Passion for Success

    Our undergraduate program offers in-depth training in every aspect of theatre, developing the skills needed in every contemporary career: creativity, collaboration, leadership, and the ability to complete a complex project on time.

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    Graduate In the Studio & On Stage

    Actors, designers, directors, dramaturgs, playwrights and stage managers all have their own intensive MFA programs of study – in the studio and on stage – working together on ~25 productions each year, including ~15 new plays by student writers.

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What are our alumni doing?

Karen Janes Woditsch

currently playing Professor McGonagall in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child on Broadway

Tanna Frederick

co-founder of Project Save Our Surf and recently starred in film Two Ways Home

Ethan Henry

is guest starring on Criminal Minds on CBS

Kristina Sherwood Dekens

Kristina Sherwood Dekens

is directing Me, Mother: Cirque, Scène et Maternité, for the CIRCa Festival in France

Paul Rust

Paul Rust

is a star, writer, and producer of the hit Netflix show Love

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Join us in a community that is as challenging as it is supportive.

A comprehensive education in theatre with a special emphasis on new work

  • Bachelor of Arts in Theatre Arts, including an emphasis in Musical Theatre
  • MFA in Theatre, with specialties in Acting, Design, Directing, Dramaturgy, Playwriting, and Stage Management
  • Double majors are encouraged (75% of our students do)
  • At least 20 guest artists a year