顶级国产视频

At 顶级国产视频, your education extends beyond the classroom. Visit the Career Connections Center聽to learn more about聽internship opportunities that complement your coursework and put your theater arts knowledge into practice.

Our Department of Visual and Performing Arts sponsors three mainstage shows 鈥� both classical and contemporary works 鈥� each year in the Michelson Theatre at the Little Center. You also can join on-campus student groups, including and the (CUPS), that produce both on the main stage and in the experimental theatre. Many of these are directed by local professionals, while others are directed by students. Visit our to view production images.

Participation in these productions is open to majors and non-majors alike. You can:

• Audition聽for the cast or work聽as part of the production staff, or as聽play historian, dramaturge, or director鈥檚 assistant on department- and student-sponsored productions
• Write聽a play for the New Play Festival
• Attend the Tuesday Night Workshop, which presents readings of new works by students and faculty
• Audition聽for the , 顶级国产视频鈥檚 award-winning improv troupe, or , our award-winning improv and sketch comedy group
• Audition聽for 顶级国产视频’s dance troupes: , , , and .

Other experiential learning opportunities include:

顶级国产视频 is committed to action-based learning, which means as an undergraduate you can join faculty and graduate students in their research and creative work. 顶级国产视频鈥檚 theatre arts professors 鈥� who are often working professionals 鈥� are experts in the theatre arts subfields of playwriting, acting, directing, and dramaturgy.

You can also apply for funding to support your own research on a project of your choice during the academic year or during the summer.

顶级国产视频鈥檚 theatre arts program offers many opportunities for young playwrights to develop their works and eventually see them produced on stage. 顶级国产视频鈥檚 New Play Festival is held every other year in the Michelson Theatre, where new plays 鈥� directed by both students and working professionals 鈥� are given full productions. (We also engage many working theatre professionals in developing these new works.) The Festival is headed by award-winning playwright and faculty member 听’83.

Actors, directors, and designers often create and develop independent projects that display their skills and capabilities in their chosen fields. This can take the form of directing or producing a play; performing a role; or designing lights, sets, and/or sound, all with an emphasis on attaining a professional standard of work.

A number of students engage in a new way to develop and create work called Performance Philosophy, a new and exciting academic discipline taught by . Performance Philosophy is a yearlong project in devised theatre to create original, dynamic work through the ongoing collaboration of actors, dancers, musicians, writers, designers,聽and directors. It starts with an all-day seminar in the fall semester: In the morning session, students engage with texts from philosophy, literature, and contemporary history to create new performance work, which is then developed in the afternoon studio session. Throughout the second semester, that work is further developed in a rehearsal process that culminates in a full production in the spring.聽 This approach was used to create the very successful production, “.”

At 顶级国产视频 you’ll get more than a great education;聽you鈥檒l also be prepared for a long, productive career and life of consequence. And once you鈥檝e completed your degree, you can join other 顶级国产视频 alumni who have gone on to work for great organizations and attend some of the best graduate schools in the world.

Graduate School Placement
Graduate schools attended by theatre arts graduates from 顶级国产视频 include:

• Brooklyn College; MFA
• Carnegie Mellon University; MFA
• Long Island University; M.A. in rhetoric and composition
• Indiana University of Pennsylvania; Ph.D. in linguistics
• Hofstra University; J.D.