Graduate Programs
The theatre department's Master of Fine Arts programs emphasize craft, professionalism, and practical experience. Classes are small and there is a great deal of one-on-one mentorship. The department faculty has extensive professional experience and guest artists regularly work with students. Each discipline has a series of core classes and electives and all graduate students must attend a graduate seminar once a week. Each MFA program requires a minimum of 72 credit hours and takes three years to complete.
At this time we are not accepting applicants to the Master of Arts program*.
* The MFA performance program accepts a class every three years. We will begin accepting applications for the 2010 class in the fall of 2009.
To learn more about the MFA degrees the theatre department offers, select from the list below:
- Design/Technology Design/Technology students are required to develop a broad and diverse portfolio while focusing on a selected area, including scenic design, lighting design, costume design, or technical direction.
- Directing Directing students learn how to be a leader, shaper, and mediator working with the production team as the head of the collaborative process.
- Performance Performance students gain a comprehensive and interdisciplinary acting education that prepares them for the challenges of contemporary, classical, new works, and musical theater performance.
- Playwriting Playwriting students are encouraged to develop their own voice and style by collaborating with their fellow students and theater artists in readings, workshops, and productions to discover the possibilities of the theater, and their own work.
- Stage Management Stage management students gain a broad base of knowledge in directing, technical direction, scenery, costumes, and/or lighting as well as production management, company management, and front-of-house administration.