Training
•Bullet: NAST-accredited BA concentration providing a broad foundation across all areas of theatre — performance, design, directing, and stage management
•Bullet: Ideal for students who want versatility rather than early specialization, with coursework spanning acting, technical theatre, and arts administration
•Bullet: Faculty with 80+ combined years of professional and teaching experience offer individualized guidance in small class settings
•Bullet: Department shaped by Dr. Tonea Stewart, former Dean of the College of Visual and Performing Arts, whose film credits include "Mississippi Burning," "A Time to Kill," and "In the Heat of the Night"
Performance & Productions
•Bullet: Students participate in mainstage productions and the annual One Act Play Festival at the historic Leila Barlow Theatre
•Bullet: Generalist track allows students to explore multiple production roles — from acting to stage management to design — across departmental shows
Professional Development
•Bullet: 85% of ASU theatre graduates work in theatre and theatre-related fields after graduation
•Bullet: The 42-hour generalist curriculum pairs core acting, design, and directing courses with both education-facing electives — Drama in the Secondary School (THE 426) and Children's Theatre (THE 427) — required together only in this concentration (Performance majors take one of the two), and graduates have gone on to advanced study at institutions like Brown, Brandeis, and Yale
