The Performance concentration develops students’ abilities and experience in performing and each year includes courses in acting, dance, speech, physical theatre, stage combat, movement, and voice for the musical theatre. Other courses taken include directing, theatre history, theatre literature and criticism.
Upon successful completion of the program, students may pursue careers in the theatre or continue their theatre studies at the professional or graduate level, in preparation either for careers in professional theatre or in educational theatre.
All students in this concentration complete the general education requirements of The College of Arts and Sciences. Upon completion of the work, a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree (B.F.A.) is awarded.
In addition to the academic programs, an integral part of students’ training in theatre comes from participating in the departmental productions. Besides the five main stage productions and the two readers’ theatre productions, there are also several special events that are produced: the student directed short-play festival, the 24 Hour Project, the NU Players Present production, and N.U.R.T. (a touring children’s theatre troupe).
