?Beginning with the first semester, students enroll in courses taught by academically and professionally experienced faculty. Unlike larger institutions, opportunities in all productions at Colorado Mesa University are open to motivated and talented freshmen. With an incredibly ambitious production season, design/technology students have multiple opportunities every semester to work in design/technology positions.?

As they mature in their skills, students are afforded opportunities to stage manage or design lights, costumes, sets, or sound for mainstage productions and gain valuable experience working on major projects. Colorado Mesa?s BA in Design/Technology is designed to create young theatre professionals ready to work from the moment they graduate.

?As part of the program, the Capstone course will require design/technology students to complete a major project in their area on a mainstage production so that they are already working like professionals upon their graduation. In addition, CMU brings professional artistic directors to campus to interview and audition our students BEFORE they graduate to create a professional network for the student they can immediately access upon graduating. At Colorado Mesa, we are committed to the philosophy of training theatrical entrepreneurs. We offer low faculty-student ratios so that personal attention and mentoring are hallmarks of the program.