Program Recognition
•Acting mentors include Melissa DuPrey, a featured actor in the Emmy-nominated web series Brown Girls
•Abdul Khaliq "A.K." Murtadha has played Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in The Mountaintop and Peter Shaw in Silent Sky at the Utah Shakespeare Festival
•Sohina Sidhu has appeared in Evil (Paramount+) and Little Voice (Apple TV+)
•Josh Innerst is an Earphones Award-winning audiobook narrator, and Constance Swain toured nationally with the American Shakespeare Center
•Lelund Durond Thompson founded Lelund Durond Studios and has coached performers including Cynthia Erivo and Daniel Radcliffe
Training
•Acting Mentorship I and II (THTR 6601 and THTR 6641) carry eight credits each and pair the student with a single faculty mentor for eighteen weeks of project-based study
•Raja Benz brings movement, intimacy coordination, and pedagogy into the acting sequence
•Candidates apply with an acting audition rather than a portfolio, and must hold a baccalaureate degree with a 3.0 undergraduate GPA
•Students choose a minimum of two mentorship areas, so acting can be combined with directing, design, or playwriting
Performance & Productions
•Endstation Theatre Company is resident on campus and supplies a professional production environment
•Every semester closes with a final performance; the last mentorship semester ends with a public thesis performance at the graduation residency
