They offer courses in acting (including movement and voice), directing, design (set, costume, lighting, sound), playwriting, dramaturgy, performance art, public speaking, and production management.

Theater arts and theater/performance studies faculty work closely together. Their theater arts classes are firmly inscribed in a liberal arts setting: acting courses engage such playwrights as Shakespeare, Chekhov, and Brecht, and directing and design courses are informed by artist-theorists such as Wilson and Kantor.

Similarly, theater and performance studies classes continually engage performance and production as in the “Fragment Project” of Theater Culture Studies I for which students are given the task of researching, reconstructing, and performing from a fragment of a lost ancient Greek play.

With our talented faculty, supportive environment and rich panoply of theater arts and theater/performance studies classes, our majors learn richer and more disciplined modes of performance, writing, production, and critical thinking.