Training
•Prepares actors for professional careers in theatre, television, film, and digital/new-media performance
•36 credit hours of technique courses in acting, voice, and movement, plus 6 additional acting electives
•12 credits in theatre fundamentals and 6 credits in dance
•Rare U.S. acting curriculum offering training in Asian performance forms — Japanese kabuki, kyogen, and noh — alongside Western methods
•The only department in North America with a focus on Hawaiian theatre (Hana Keaka) and Indigenous performance
•Culminates in a professional website/portfolio for the job market
Performance & Productions
•Productions staged at the 619-seat John F. Kennedy Theatre (opened 1963, designed by I.M. Pei) and the 147-seat Earle Ernst Lab black-box theatre
•Kennedy Theatre is the only U.S. theatre built with a hanamichi — a kabuki acting pathway running through the audience
•Department participates in the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival
Notable Alumni
•Moses Goods — Native Hawaiian actor/playwright, Fox Foundation Resident Actor Fellow, creator of the one-man show DUKE •Bette Midler — Oscar-nominated actress and singer who studied drama at UH Mānoa 
