McMurry theatre production auditions are open to all McMurry students with casting preference given to majors and minors. There are at least four faculty directed productions during each academic year. Summer Dinner Theatre. The Summer theater program produces two or three plays each Summer in a dinner theatre format. As Summer apprentices, students receive a scholarship in the form of a free dorm room in exchange for production work.
Apprentices can also earn spending money as servers during the dinner theatre performances.
Guest directors, designers, and actors are regularly employed to offer the students exposure to as many different approaches to solving the problems of staging a play as possible. BFA students are required to participate in at least one Summer season. Original Play Production. The department is dedicated to producing new plays written by McMurry students. Every other year, the department stages plays written by students of the Playwriting class of the previous year.