Training & Collaboration
•Student-centered department emphasizing collaboration, diversity and inclusion
•Courses span acting, design, dramatic literature, playwriting and directing
•Faculty and staff of professional theatre artists and scholars
•Regular visiting artists lead workshops and master classes
Production Opportunities
•Three major productions per year directed by faculty and guest artists
•Student-directed one-act studio productions
•New Play Reading Series features original student work
•Theatre 14 main stage seats 450 with full fly system and hydraulic lift
•Hallie Flanagan Studio Theatre offers flexible black box staging
Five College Consortium
•Cross-register at Amherst, Mount Holyoke, Hampshire and UMass Amherst
•Perform in productions across all five campuses
•Fare-free bus system connects campuses
Facilities
•Mendenhall Center for the Performing Arts (designed by Helge Westermann)
•Fully equipped scene and costume shops
•Werner Josten Performing Arts Library with extensive collection
•Lighting, sound and set design labs plus computer design studio
