Dean's Message Dean's Message Theatre is an art of communicating emotions and ideas. It can encompass literature, performance, spectacle and music and unlike its offspring media, cinema and television, theatre also incorporates human contact with the audience.
Theatre is live and immediate, offering boundless possibilities of expression.
The USC School of Theatre helps prepare students to explore those creative possibilities fully. The breadth of learning opportunities we offer prepares students for the spectrum of careers in the professional theatre, including performance, playwriting, production, management and teaching. The School of Theatre also strives to instill confidence, integrity, excellence and artistic sensitivity into each of our students traits that are essential to success in any field. Thanks to the caliber of our students and faculty, the USC School of Theatre is ranked as one of the top theatre schools in the United States. Graduates of the school work professionally in all aspects of theatre, film and television.