Training
•Bullet: Comprehensive, intensive four-year training in acting, singing, and dance
•Bullet: Faculty actively engaged in the profession
•Bullet: Unique opportunity for both individual voice lessons and individual vocal coachings with strong emphasis on vocal health
•Bullet: Four-semester studio performance technique sequence combining singing and acting across all eras of musical theatre, including traditional and contemporary pop/rock styles
•Bullet: Junior and senior year focus on audition techniques and "business of the business"
•Bullet: Includes theatre history, technical theatre, music theory, movement, stage combat, and general education
•Bullet: Partnership with Theatrical Rights Worldwide to workshop and premiere new musicals
Performance & Productions
•Bullet: Performances in ECU/Loessin Playhouse, Theatre for Young Audiences productions, and faculty-led workshop productions (Random Acts, Night of Musical Theatre)
•Bullet: Student-led groups: East Carolina Theatre Association, SWISH Improv, Reader's Theatre, Fifth Street Players
Notable Alumni
•Bullet: Dirk Lumbard — Broadway performer (Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, The Music Man, On Your Toes, Barnum, Sugar Babies); assistant choreographer for Broadway and West End On Your Toes; now ECU dance faculty •Bullet: Sandra Bullock — Oscar winner who began her performing career in ECU Playhouse musicals before transitioning to film Professional Development
•Bullet: Students regularly attend UPTA (Unified Professional Theatre Auditions) as seniors and SETC (Southeastern Theatre Conference), where students are regularly hired for summer employment as early as freshman year
•Bullet: Guest speakers, master classes, and audition workshops with industry professionals
•Bullet: Graduates performing on Broadway, the West End, national tours, cruise ships, and regional theatres
Verified Recent Class Sizes
•Bullet: Class of 2030: 15 students
•Bullet: Class of 2029: 18 students
•Bullet: Class of 2028: 14 students
