Training
•Bullet: Rigorous, focused, and sequential 132-unit actor-training degree
•Bullet: Three-phase curriculum: Self (fundamentals, body, voice, imagination) → Role (dramatic texts and genres) → Professional Arena (Shakespeare, on-camera, digital media)
•Bullet: Training spans stage, film, television, and web-based work
•Bullet: BFA Acting sequence (6 semesters)
•Bullet: BFA Movement sequence (5 semesters)
•Bullet: BFA Voice and Speech sequence (3 semesters)
•Bullet: Accents: Theory and Practice (2 semesters)
Performance & Productions
•Bullet: Must perform substantive role in at least one Mainstage or Studio production
•Bullet: Degree culminates in online Showcase introducing graduates to industry professionals
Notable Alumni
•Bullet: Linda Woolverton — BFA Theatre Arts '73; Disney screenwriter (Beauty and the Beast, The Lion King, Maleficent) •Bullet: Patrick Fabian — MFA Acting; Howard Hamlin in Better Call Saul •Bullet: Alexandra Billings — MFA Theatre Arts; Transparent, The Conners; Grammy-nominated vocalist and CSULB associate professor 
