Program Recognition
•Recipient of the Mayor's Arts Award for Artistic Achievement in the Performing Arts
Training
•30+ productions per year providing extensive performance opportunities
•Performance experience begins first semester of freshman year
•Training in Acting, Voice for the Stage, Stage Combat, Movement, Playing Shakespeare, and Acting for the Camera
•Work alongside guest professional artists
Notable Alumni
•Sandy Dennis — Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, 1966), Tony Award winner (Any Wednesday) •Emily Kinney — Beth Greene on AMC's The Walking Dead, Broadway debut in Spring Awakening, appeared in Masters of Sex, The Flash, and Arrow Professional Development
•Alumni working in Chicago, Minneapolis, Los Angeles, Seattle, Phoenix, New York, and internationally
•Senior Showcase capstone connects students with industry professionals
•69-credit-hour intensive program
Facilities
•Elder Theatre Center housing McDonald and Miller Theatres
