Training
•Intensive interdisciplinary BFA-level training in music, theatre, and dance
•Specialized training in acting, dance, and music skills
•Collaboration between School of Performing Arts and School of Music
•Six semesters of applied voice instruction
•Musical Theatre Repertoire, Scene Study, and Audition Technique courses
•Tap, jazz, ballet, contemporary, hip hop, and MT dance training
•Acting for the Camera and Directing the Musical
Performance & Productions
•Musicals, plays, opera, staged readings, and dance productions
•Students encouraged to audition for professional and community theatres in Wichita
Notable Alumni
•Julius Thomas III (BFA '05) — Broadway: Hamilton, Motown The Musical, The Scottsboro Boys, Porgy & Bess; NAACP Theatre Award nominee •Karla Burns — Tony nominee for Show Boat on Broadway, first Black winner of the Laurence Olivier Award •Hal Davis (BA '72) — Broadway: Titanic, The Sound of Music; national tours of Joseph, Grease, The King and I