Training
•Comprehensive training in acting, singing, dancing, and production/design
•Taught by Broadway-seasoned professionals with decades of on- and off-Broadway experience
•Actors' Equity Workshop courses covering LORT and Broadway/Off-Broadway contracts
•Acting for Television course
Professional Development
•Shadow Lawn Stage: students work alongside professional actors at the on-campus Equity regional theatre
•Equity Membership Candidate (EMC) program access, rare at the undergraduate level
•Students have used EMC cards to secure Broadway auditions (Next to Normal, Aladdin)
•MU Players, an award-winning student-run theatre organization producing fully staged musicals
•Cabaret For A Cause raises thousands annually for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS
•3-credit internships in the theatre industry
•Two River Theatre Ambassador Program partnership
•One hour from New York City and Philadelphia, in the heart of the Jersey Shore arts scene