Program Recognition
•Bullet: BFA Theatre concentration in Performance (Acting), housed in the Maggie Allesee Department of Theatre and Dance within Wayne State’s College of Fine, Performing and Communication Arts
Training
•Bullet: Acting sequence runs from Acting I through Acting V, alongside Stage Movement I–IV and Voice Lab I–IV, with Acting for the Camera in senior year
•Bullet: Musical Theatre Performance electives in Contemporary and Golden Age styles, plus WSU Touring Theatre by audition
•Bullet: Culminates in Theatre Capstone: Performance
Performance & Productions
•Bullet: BFA Performance majors are required to audition each semester for possible casting in an array of productions
•Bullet: Productions are presented in the Hilberry Gateway, which houses the STAGE (a proscenium theatre) and the STUDIO (a flexible seating studio theatre), and in Allesee Dance Theatre
•Bullet: The department produces roughly 20 shows with around 100 performances each academic year
Notable Alumni
•Bullet: Lily Tomlin — The West Wing, Murphy Brown, and Grace & Frankie Location
•Bullet: Training takes place in the heart of Detroit
