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Study Abroad
Training
•Bullet: Acting concentration develops physical expression, emotional resourcefulness, text analysis, and practical performance skills
•Bullet: Coursework moves from first-level actor training into technique, genre, and dramatic-material study such as Solo Performance, Acting the Song, Chekhov, Shakespeare, and comedy
Performance & Productions
•Bullet: Acting thesis places a department-production performance in critical context with a substantial reflective essay
•Bullet: Acting concentration develops physical expression, emotional resourcefulness, text analysis, and practical performance skills
•Bullet: Coursework moves from first-level actor training into technique, genre, and dramatic-material study such as Solo Performance, Acting the Song, Chekhov, Shakespeare, and comedy
Performance & Productions
•Bullet: Acting thesis places a department-production performance in critical context with a substantial reflective essay
Program Highlights
Training
•Bullet: Acting concentration develops physical expression, emotional resourcefulness, text analysis, and practical performance skills
•Bullet: Coursework moves from first-level actor training into technique, genre, and dramatic-material study such as Solo Performance, Acting the Song, Chekhov, Shakespeare, and comedy
Performance & Productions
•Bullet: Acting thesis places a department-production performance in critical context with a substantial reflective essay
The school's own essays for Fall 2027 entry aren't confirmed yet. Check its application before you write.
Common App personal essay
250–650 words · Choose 1 of 7 prompts · Written once for all your Common App schools
Background, identity, interest, or talent: Some students have a background, identity, interest, or talent that is so meaningful they believe their application would be incomplete without it. If this sounds like you, then please share your story.
Facing adversity: The lessons we take from obstacles we encounter can be fundamental to later success. Recount a time when you faced a challenge, setback, or failure. How did it affect you, and what did you learn from the experience?
Challenging an idea: Reflect on a time when you questioned or challenged a belief or idea. What prompted your thinking? What was the outcome?
Gratitude: Reflect on something that someone has done for you that has made you happy or thankful in a surprising way. How has this gratitude affected or motivated you?
Personal growth: Discuss an accomplishment, event, or realization that sparked a period of personal growth and a new understanding of yourself or others.
Intellectual curiosity: Describe a topic, idea, or concept you find so engaging that it makes you lose all track of time. Why does it captivate you? What or who do you turn to when you want to learn more?
Topic of your choice: Share an essay on any topic of your choice. It can be one you've already written, one that responds to a different prompt, or one of your own design.
The Common App enforces the length inside the application.
•Bullet: Acting concentration develops physical expression, emotional resourcefulness, text analysis, and practical performance skills
•Bullet: Coursework moves from first-level actor training into technique, genre, and dramatic-material study such as Solo Performance, Acting the Song, Chekhov, Shakespeare, and comedy
Performance & Productions
•Bullet: Acting thesis places a department-production performance in critical context with a substantial reflective essay
