The art and craft of directing are undergoing changes as great as the world in which we live and attempt to reflect on stage. This program focuses on preparing students for a professional career now while getting them ready for to be leaders in a future theatre that is forming today.

Explore directing by assisting professional guest directors

Recent Guest Artist Directors from New Jersey Shakespeare Festival, Shakespeare and Company, Black Rep. of St. Louis, off-Broadway

Study directing by experiencing what your fellow artists create and by working with other MFA students

Graduate classes in lighting design, scene design, dramaturgy, acting, voice, movement

Learn about directing from a professional faculty

Recent productions at Utah Shakespearean Festival, La Mama Etc., national tour for ClearChannels, inde-pendent film Experience directing on a professional internship Recent Interns at: Primary Stages in New York; Victory Gardens, Tony Award winning theatre in Chicago

Understand directing by working with guest actors and designers

Recent guests from Goodman, Chicago Shakespeare, Broadway, Alabama Shakespeare, The Shakespeare Theatre, Utah Shakespearean Festival

Expand your directing by working in different periods, in different spaces

Project scripts selected from contemporary and classics Production projects in proscenium, thrust, and arena stages

Investigate directing by directing

Direct a production every semester leading to assignment in the main season Prepare for a professional career through a rigorous study of the craft of directing and by studying the craft of collaborators: designers, actors and dramaturgs. A combination of classes and produced projects in differing disciplines, styles, and theatrical spaces broadens the theatrical vocabulary and focuses on the collaborative process. Special attention is paid to the evocative reading of scripts and to the visual language that is such an important component of the director's language.

Study and application are supplemented by introduction to the profession through familiarity with the working practices and contracts of the professional guilds, such as the AEA and SSDC. The professionally active faculty serve as mentors; the productions they work on beyond the university are used as applied examples of theatre practices. This process is furthered by the required internship during one semester of the final year of the program.

Graduate Directing
Lighting Design
Script Analysis for Directors and Designers
Assistant Directing

Directing Seminar
Scenography
Script Analysis for Directors and Actors
Assistant Directing
Practicum Directing Project

Elective as decided
Combat or Commedia
Terminal Main Stage Directing Project

Professional Internship