Program Highlights

All Performing Arts faculty have earned graduate degrees in their respective fields and hold active memberships in the various professional organizations in their specialties, including the Association for Theatre in Higher Education and the United States Institute of Theatre Technology.

The theatre program is known for offering classes with a high level of student/teacher interaction. The program emphasizes individual attention with abundant opportunities for personal exploration and growth. Responsibilities and expectations increase according to each student's creative and academic progress. Still, students at all grade levels act direct, design, stage-manage, research, critique, and produce theatre art in close collaboration with faculty, student peers, and respected visiting artists.

State-of-the-Art Facilities

Facilities include a 500-seat, state-of-the-art theatre, and a smaller flexible performance and instructional space seating up to 100. Backstage technology consists of a counterweight system that provides for five motorized positions dedicated to staging lighting and permanent running lights throughout both performance spaces and the main theater corridor. The 100-seat Black Box Studio Theatre boasts a technical mezzanine sixteen feet off the stage floor for optimal control booth operation and a suspended tension wire grid.

Additional facilities include a costume shop, prop room, dressing and green room, box office, light lab, lighting and sound booth, scene shop, access to Design Labs, and the Innovation and Production Lab.