Untitled The Theater Department sponsors four mainstage productions with faculty or guest directors, as well as a one-act festival produced as the final project of the advanced directing class. In addition, workshop productions often evolve from advanced students' work in acting, playwriting, directing, lighting and stage design.
All auditions are open to the entire student body.
Freshmen are frequently cast in both Mainstage and student productions. In addition to acting, many students become involved in the technical production, including lighting, set-building, and painting. Like It to Eric Bogosian's Suburbia , Lisa Loomer's The Waiting Room and Neil Simon's Brighton Beach Memoirs. In addition, workshop productions, staged readings of professional and student work and student directing projects expose students to a broader scope of styles and techniques. Productions take place in the fully-equipped theater in Palmer Auditorium, the more intimate Anthony Francis Nelson Theater Lab, and the new Tansill Black Box Theater at Hillyer Hall.