Training
•Bullet: Hands-on theatre major spanning performance, design, directing, stage management, choreography and stage combat, lighting, makeup, marketing, media, and playwriting
•Bullet: Students can perform in mainstage plays and musicals, design and construct scenery, direct peers, stage-manage productions, and join the student-led Educational Theatre Company
Performance & Productions
•Bullet: Students can get involved in mainstage productions from their first semester, either performing on stage or working on tech and crew teams
•Bullet: The current and recent seasons include plays, musicals, one-act productions, and musical cabarets in the Heiland Theatre
Professional Development
•Bullet: Students can volunteer with area theatres and intern or perform with local summer groups including Wilmington College Community Summer Theatre and Clinton County Kids & Co
•Bullet: Theatre graduates have worked as artistic producers, line producers, high school theatre teachers and directors, professional actors, professional stage managers, live-event directors, convention-center managers, screenwriters, scenic-design professors, and documentary filmmakers
•Bullet: Wilmington describes the theatre program as having a nearly 100-year history and an alumni network for mentorship, career advice, and networking
Facilities
•Bullet: Hugh G. Heiland Theatre in the Boyd Cultural Arts Center is a renovated 433-seat performance venue with theatre, music, gallery, classroom, rehearsal, and faculty spaces
