Every theatre major is involved in some way with each production. Two on-campus theatres offer venues for students to showcase their talents. The mainstage proscenium arch theatre seats 400 people. The studio black box theatre seats 70 people. Other facilities include acting studios, a dance studio, a design studio, a costume shop, a modern scene shop, and additional classrooms.
Faculty members focus their attention exclusively on training undergraduate students.
Students are eligible for any company position on the production team from the beginning of their college career. Saint Louis University theatre graduates have made a wide array of contributions in professions related to the theatre as well as in other fields. Alumni have worked in professional theatres throughout the United States, Hollywood feature films, network and cable television productions, commercials, industrial films, and every other venue in which actors, playwrights, directors, designers and other theatrical craftspersons are needed. Some graduates apply the skills they have acquired as theatre majors to careers in other disciplines. Summer Jobs, Internships, and Scholarships The Department of Fine and Performing Arts awards scholarships to select incoming theatre majors on the basis of an audition or presentation of a technical portfolio.