It assists with resume and letter writing, job search strategies and interview preparation. As a theatre arts major, you will take courses in costuming, history, stagecraft, stage lighting, stage management and theatrical makeup. You will also gain practical experience in many of these areas through laboratory work. You will learn how to use body and voice in performing and how to prepare plays for performance. You will study actors, plays and playwrights from Africa, Asia and the Middle East, as well as those from Europe and North America.
Students have the opportunity to perform and direct throughout their four years of study.
They work under faculty, guest and student directors and choreographers. UNT's theatre arts faculty includes outstanding teachers as well as outstanding performers and researchers. One faculty member has served as costume designer for the Houston Grand Opera and the Long Beach Opera, among others, and received a Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award. Another faculty member has studied with internationally renowned Gerzy Grotowski in Poland, and another has worked as an adjudicator and critic for the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival. Several grants have been awarded to another faculty member to provide theatre for youth outreach programs.