In addition, there are workshops and seminars dealing with special skills and career preparation. Public performances begin in the second year of training. Plays are chosen for the training opportunities that they present to the students. In the third year, students continue to perform in works of increasing technical complexity as well as participate in the development of new scripts with playwrights and directors. One semester of the third year is spent training at the school's English Theatre Centre in Birmingham, England.
Students perform in no less than four plays that are fully staged and costumed.
Please refer to curriculum on page 367 of the university catalog.