You?ll begin your degree working onstage or behind the scenes in your first semester.

Theater-by-the-Grove and the IUP Dance Theater Company support numerous creative opportunities in six productions each year, including a major musical.

Additional creative opportunities are provided through studio, touring, and workshop productions.

You?ll complete foundations courses on the theories, history, and literature of theater, and develop core skills in performance, stagecraft, and costumes. You?ll also choose one of three concentration areas: Performance, Design/Tech/Management, or Theory and Criticism?or create your own concentration.

As part of the Acorn Project, up to 25 production opportunities are available to students who are encouraged to explore playwriting, acting, and directing. Waller Hall?s Studio Theater serves as the primary performance space.

Free electives offer the opportunity to strengthen job prospects through courses in radio, television, foreign language, journalism, business, art, music, dance, or other areas.

An audition or presentation is required for entry into the theater major.

This degree prepares you for the additional training usually required to enter the field as a professional. IUP has been successfully engaged in the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival and almost annually achieves regional and national recognition of our students? production work. The university is also fully accredited by the National Association of Schools of Theatre, the only accrediting body for theater in higher education recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.