Faculty Biographies Theatre Arts offers singular educational opportunities to mature, talented, and focused young artists who are well beyond the initial throes of exploration and discovery and who seek specialized training in preparation for their professional lives. Theatre Arts provides the time, the aesthetic and intellectual resources, the production facilities, and the synergistic creative environment to allow select graduate students to broaden, deepen, and synthesize their skills training and intellectual study with a notable degree of excellence and self-confidence. Theatre Arts accepts few graduate students, and it focuses attention on their development with great expectations for their level of achievement. Consideration for admission is given to applicants with a bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university. Enrollment is limited.
Most students receive tuition scholarships, assistantships, and modest stipends.
Theatre Arts graduate programs offer students considerable latitude in configuring individualized study plans. Because graduate students come from widely varied educational and professional backgrounds, Theatre Arts accommodates their strengths and weaknesses through exemption from some courses and placement in other appropriate, advanced undergraduate classes. Upon enrollment each graduate student is assigned a faculty advisor. The advisor, in consultation with other members of the faculty and the director of the Theatre Arts Division, reviews the student's academic history and experience to determine what undergraduate courses may be required as prerequisite to graduate study. An examination or portfolio evaluation may be used to ascertain the student's level of proficiency, which may justify a waiver of specific prerequisite courses.