Stage Management, B.F.A.

The BFA in Stage Management is designed to prepare students for success in the professional theatre industry. By combining conservatory-style training with a strong liberal arts education, our students explore, develop, and hone their craft to become well-rounded artists with valuable skill sets that will prepare them for professional success.

School of Theatre and Dance BFA Learning Goals:

• Collaboration: brings students into work and learning relationships to realize that theatre is, by its nature, a shared undertaking.
• Analysis: Experientially teaches advanced knowledge of disciplinary theory that enables students to translate texts into expressions within their chosen areas of focus.
• Technique: equips students with the means to both express and explore important ideas in a global context within their chosen area of focus.
• Professionalism: instills in students a set of ethical values that guide them as working professionals and educated individuals in a global society that will sustain them as artists and professionals in whatever endeavor they may choose.
• Anti-Racism: Students will apply the tenets of anti-racism to theatrical analysis and production.
• Meaning and value: asks students to integrate all elements of their liberal education to create lives that are both professionally successful and personally meaningful.