Our program emphasizes practical experience at every level of production. Students perform, design, direct, choreograph, stage manage, do research and concept analysis for faculty directors, construct and circuit, paint, sew, learn and teach. To a Kiss , Fall 1995 Our annual Main Stage season involves five productions - usually including either a musical or elaborate large cast classic. While our Main Stage season is faculty-directed, these productions have involved advanced students as designers in lighting, sets, costumes, makeup and properties.
Auditions are open to all students on campus and non-majors are encouraged to get involved.
Our faculty select the year's season based mainly on the need for balancing acting and design challenges for our students, as well as an ongoing interest in exposing our campus to the best of classic and contemporary dramatic literature. For guidelines on Lab Show proposals, click here. At the end of each semester, student directors from the directing course produce as many as ten one-acts during the final week of classes. These productions, directed by faculty or professional guest artists, were open to theatre majors and minors only. These productions are open to the entire University community.