Training
•Lucas Verbrugghe (Theatre Arts Instructor and department director)
•Alicia Bales (Voice and Dialects, MA from Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, London)
•John Tomlinson (MFA in Theatre Performance from Roosevelt University)
•Stephen Decker (Technical Director, MFA in Lighting and Scenery from University of Alabama)
•Theatre Conservatory Cohort Experience offers intensive afternoon acting, voice, and movement classes
•Four-semester sequence over two years with cohort-style training
•Students in the full program receive priority in production casting
Performance & Productions
•Active production schedule in the Center Theatre and Little Theatre
•Annual Festival of New Plays featuring original student-directed works by local playwrights (19th annual in 2026)
•Recent productions include Rumors, Cherry Orchard, American Idiot, Legally Blonde, Eurydice, Hamlet, and Cats
