Theatre Arts
About the Program
The theatre arts major provides the student with focused study in theatre history, criticism, literature, design and advanced performance, and production including acting, stagecraft and directing.
Theatre laboratories give students acting and production experience through an annual season of plays including musicals, classics and modern drama via settings that may include main stage, intimate dinner theatre, touring children’s theatre and alternative spaces.
Work and practicum opportunities are also available in professional theatres, summer stock, theme parks and other related settings.
The program has an excellent record of students being admitted to graduate programs. Skills and qualities developed by the program include organization, artistic design, self-expression, leadership, human relations, self-awareness, critical judgment and creativity.
- Secondary Education Licensure
What Can I Do With This Major?
- Actor
- Advertising
- Director
- Make-up artist
- Costume designer
- Acting coach
- Critic
- Lighting designer
- Playwright
- Producer
- Set designer
- Stage manager
- Theatre manager
Sample Courses
- TA 111 Voice and Movement
- TA 220 Introduction to Design
- TA 200 Stagecraft I
- TA 125 Acting I
- TA 370 Directing
Extracurricular Activities
- TASC (Theatre at Sterling College)
Faculty
Associate Professor of Communication; Chair of the Communication, Media & Theatre Department
Assistant Professor of Theatre Arts - Technical Director
Assistant Professor of Theatre Arts - Artistic Director
SC Theatre Workshops
Our annual theatre workshops, followed by lunch and a matinee! This year’s production will be Fences. There is a small cost per student to attend. Pre-registration is required and will open in November.
Theatre Arts Scholarship Requirements
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Theatre Performance – Perform two contrasting monologues. In addition, if interested in Muscial Theatre please bring 16 bars of song.
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Technical Theatre – Be prepared to discuss your interest in Technical Theatre. Bring any of the following (if available):
Photos of productions/props/set pieces you have worked on.
Drafting plates, or technical drawings you have created.
Prompt books, or research files you have created for your designs.
Any models or renderings.