Program Recognition
•Bullet: Widely acknowledged as the top women's college in the world
•Bullet: Students compete at the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival (ACTF), winning regional and national awards for design, outstanding one-act plays, and journalism/advocacy
•Bullet: Design students attend the annual United States Institute for Theatre Technology (USITT) conference
Performance & Productions
•Bullet: Ruth Nagel Jones Black Box Theatre — configurable 80+ seat performance space
•Bullet: Diana Chapman Walsh Auditorium — 1,000-seat venue for performances, showcases, and thesis work
Professional Development
•Bullet: Faculty are working theatre professionals across acting, directing, playwriting, and design
•Bullet: Wellesley Repertory Theatre (WRT) — award-winning professional company in residence that bridges curricular work with professional opportunity
•Bullet: WRT awards grants to graduates supporting development and production of unpublished/unproduced work
•Bullet: Internship opportunities with the professional Wellesley Repertory Theatre company
Study Abroad
•Bullet: National Theatre Institute at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center
•Bullet: London programs offering intensive theatre study
•Bullet: Accademia Dell'Arte — physical and devised theatre semester in Arezzo, Italy
Degree Flexibility
•Bullet: 9-unit major spanning acting, directing, playwriting, design/technical craft, and critical analysis
•Bullet: Honors thesis option — seniors write, produce, and perform original full-length work
•Bullet: Beauclair-Masson Fellowship for performance or directing-focused seniors
•Bullet: International exchange production collaborations (e.g., Shakespeare co-production with Soonchunhyang University in South Korea)
•Bullet: Twelve College Exchange Program
•Bullet: Cross-registration with Babson, Olin, and MIT
