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Admissions
No PrescreenAudition RequiredNo InterviewUniversity App Required
Audition format
In-Person or VirtualMTCP Participant
Program profile
Selective12-24 Students

TRAINING
BFA program requiring competitive audition for admission
Students perform starting their very first semester
Over 25 productions per year, including six major productions, studio productions, and an optional summer theatre program
Visiting professional performers, Fulbright scholars, playwrights, directors, designers, and choreographers
Students and faculty have regularly won Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival Certificates of Merit
NOTABLE ALUMNI
Teri Hansen — Broadway (Show Boat, The Sound of Music, An American in Paris), London West End, TV (Orange Is the New Black, Law & Order: SVU)
Jeff Daniels — Emmy winner (The Newsroom), Tony-nominated for To Kill a Mockingbird on Broadway, founded Purple Rose Theatre Company
Terry O'Quinn — Emmy winner for Lost, The West Wing
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Paid summer program — earn money, professional experience, and college credit performing across Michigan

– Venues include The Playhouse at White Lake and the Beaver Island Community Center

FACILITIES
500-seat proscenium Bush Theatre, 200-seat round theatre, and recently renovated 75-seat studio theatre
Access to approximately 50,000 costumes, a design/tech lab, costume shop, and multiple performance venues

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