page_title: BYU College of Fine Arts and Communications
section_title: Theatre and Media Arts
hierarchical_section_title: BYU College of Fine Arts and Communications / Departments and schools / Theatre and Media Arts
caption_attribution_description: English: One of the monsters from BYU Animation's short film, "Pajama Gladiator" (edited by mwilson3).
context_page_description: The BYU College of Fine Arts and Communications is one of nine colleges at Brigham Young University, a private university operated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and located in Provo, Utah. Founded in 1925, the college has grown from a small college of the arts with minimal faculty and only 100 students to the second largest college on campus.
  With more than 3,800 students and 141 full-time faculty, the expansive college has spread across the university's campus and occupies six buildings.
  With four departments and two schools, the CFAC offers 14 undergraduate degrees and eight graduate degrees.
  Since 1971, BYU performing arts groups have performed more than 14,000 shows in all 50 states and more than 100 countries of the world. Worldwide audiences totaling more than 12 million people, have also included radio and TV broadcasts reaching billions.
context_section_description: The college's theatre program is designed to educate students in basic foundations of dramatic literature, theatre history, theory, and performance skills as both an actor and director while providing new, innovative techniques in all areas of theatre design technology and production. The College also supervises the BYU Center for Animation.
  BYU's theatre students have performed in Broadway casts of Mamma Mia!, Les Misérables, Miss Saigon, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Hair, and 42nd Street.  Additionally, students have been with the Broadway national tours of Cats, Fosse, Footloose, Titanic, Sunset Boulevard, and Annie Get Your Gun.  Graduates have also worked with the Boston Ballet, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, and the Sacramento Ballet.
  Film students from the department have created several successful independent films (Napoleon Dynamite, God's Army, Saints and Soldiers, The Singles Ward, Out of Step, Brigham City, and Charly).  Many students have competed in film competitions including the Sundance Film Festival and Slamdance. Students have also worked on the crews for national television programs (Touched by an Angel and Everwood).
caption: One of the monsters from BYU Animation's short film, "Pajama Gladiator"
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