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ABOUT OUR THEATRE FACILITIES AND RENTALS

*Not sponsored by the Department of Theatre and Dance

For specifics on theatre major requirements,
consult the Bulletin for Undergraduate Theatre.
For specifics on theatre minor requirements,
consult the Minor in Theatre and Dance Requirements

Undergraduates Jessica A. Fox and Patrick Pinnell played the leads in John Olive's The Voice of the Prairie, March 2000.

Are you ready
to make theatre?

Where do you start? Who will help you take the raw material that is you and transform it into a polished and powerful artist? Where do you go to acquire a confident technique and to learn your craft? There is a place where the intensity of your desire will be matched by dedication to your growth into a theatre artist. We have the teachers, designers, and guest artists. We have the theatres. We put on the plays, with lots of roles to go around, with professional-quality stage designs, costumes and lighting. We live, work and play in a vibrant urban center, with opportunities forculture and fun.

You can at the
University of South Carolina
at Columbia!

Excitement

We stage great plays of the present and the past, with large casts.

We are proud of our three fully-equipped theatres. Longstreet Theatre is the best arena theatre in the southeast, a modern gem built inside of an antebellum chapel. Drayton Hall, the main proscenium theatre, was recently remodeled and is intimate and warm. Our funky black-box theatre offers room to experiment.

A fully-independent undergraduate theatre organization plans up to six plays a semester.

Put it all together: we have opportunities for undergraduates to act, direct, design, stage manage, or learn about technical theatre or marketing.

Undergraduate Stephen Cone played the villian in Joshua SobolÍs holocaust drama Ghetto, February 2001.

Opportunity

Assistantships, scholarships and awards are available for undergraduates. You can earn while working on your craft. Or win awards through outstanding academic and artistic achievement.

Study abroad and Student Exchange programs allow under-graduates to learn more about theatre internationally or at other American universities.

Our theatre alumni have an exciting variety of quality opportunities after they graduate. Some have active careers in the visual and performing arts and media. And because our undergrads receive a liberal arts education, they are welcome in business, too. Other undergrads go on to study at top graduate schools and professional training programs.

Undergraduates Stephen Cone, Eric Abrams and Chad Williams played the comic trio of Toby Belch, Andrew Aguecheek and Fabian in ShakespeareÍs Twelfth Night, September 2000.

Quality

We have an outstanding theatre faculty of fifteen full-time teachers with national reputations in their fields.

The ratio of faculty to undergraduate students is one to four.

Our teachers are members of Actors Equity, Screen Actors’ Guild, the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, United Scenic Artists and the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers.

Internationally recognized guest artists act, direct, design and teach undergraduates during extended visits to our department.

USC's undergraduate theatre degree is accredited by the National Association of Schools of Theatre and the University/Resident Theatre Association.

The department is affiliated with three great regional theatres, The Shakespeare Theatre, Washington, D.C.; the Alliance Theatre, Atlanta, GA; and The Milwaukee Repertory Company.

Undergraduate Lorry Houston, surrounded by other plantation workers, listened to the conjurer played by MFA candidate Karyn Johnston in Rita DoveÍs The Darker Face of the Earth, April 2001.

Select for the Bulletin for Undergraduate Theatre.

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Are you ready to make theatre?

You can at the University of South Carolina at Columbia!

Excitement

Opportunity

Quality

Are you ready
to make theatre?

You can at the
University of South Carolina
at Columbia!