Training
•Bullet: 54-credit-hour major spanning acting (Fundamentals of Acting, Advanced Acting Styles), stagecraft, stage makeup, voice and movement, script analysis, and play direction
•Bullet: Two design courses chosen from Scene, Lighting, Costume, or Sound Design, plus a three-course sequence in theatre history and literature
•Bullet: Curriculum rooted in the liberal arts tradition
•Bullet: Senior comprehensive exam caps the degree
Performance & Productions
•Bullet: Participation in plays, musicals, and dance performances required of all majors
•Bullet: At least five main stage productions each season, including a musical, a classical work, and experimental, heavy, and comic pieces
•Bullet: Six semesters of hands-on Production Arts coursework
Professional Development
•Bullet: Annual participation in the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival (KCACTF)
•Bullet: Chair Dr. Nathan Bowman co-founded Kansas City Public Theatre, named the Missouri Arts Council's 2022 Arts Organization of the Year
•Bullet: Dr. Lindsay Kennedy is a nationally produced playwright and Shakespeare/Early Modern Drama scholar whose plays have placed for the Jean Kennedy Smith Playwriting Award and received the Kennedy Center Harold & Mimi Steinberg Award for Distinguished Achievement
