Training
•Hands-on theatre major spanning performance, design, directing, stage management, choreography and stage combat, lighting, makeup, marketing, media, and playwriting
•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
•Students can get involved in mainstage productions from their first semester, either performing on stage or working on tech and crew teams
•The current and recent seasons include plays, musicals, one-act productions, and musical cabarets in the Heiland Theatre
Professional Development
•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.
•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
•Wilmington describes the theatre program as having a nearly 100-year history and an alumni network for mentorship, career advice, and networking
Facilities
•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
