Our High School Theatre Festival is one way we build a community of students who love theatre and seek an excellent college education. The ULV Theatre Program is performance-oriented. Majors fulfill requirements in acting, directing and design as well as getting a solid background in theatre history, theory and dramatic literature.
Students prepare for professional and teaching careers or for graduate work.
Through generous financial aid packages, a private university like ULV is more affordable than most students and parents expect. We annually award several partial tuition scholarships to incoming freshmen and transfer students. Unique opportunities at ULV include the Steven Kent Institute for Conscious Acting, a opportunity to study abroad at The Guildford School of Acting in England, and The Split International Theatre Festival in Croatia. Through a combination of studios, workshops with special guest artists, work study programs and apprenticeships, students of the Institute for Conscious Actin g will engage in an intensive process which produces self-activated, socially conscious, original theatre artists of all kinds. The Institute offers an alternative to the limited opportunities of commercial theatre by providing the training, vision, confidence, and personal contact with working theatre professionals whereby the students learn to create their own works, their own venues and their own opportunities.