About the Program

The theatre arts major provides the student with focused study in theatre history, criticism, literature, design and advanced performance, and production including acting, stagecraft and directing.

Theatre laboratories give students acting and production experience through an annual season of plays including musicals, classics and modern drama via settings including main stage, intimate dinner theatre, touring children’s theatre and alternative spaces. Plays are chosen to cover a representative range of styles, genre, topics and periods in any four-year course of study.

Work and practicum opportunities are also available in professional theatres, summer stock, theme parks and other related settings.

The program has an excellent record of students being admitted to graduate programs. Skills and qualities developed by the program include organization, artistic design, self-expression, leadership, human relations, self-awareness, critical judgment and creativity.

2012-2013 Theatre Productions (Click to see photos from the productions) Godspell The Odd Couple (The Female Version) The Hobbit Medea Leaving Iowa Licensures Secondary Education Licensure What Can I Do With This Major? Actor Advertising Director Make-up artist Costume designer Acting coach Critic Lighting designer Playwright Producer Set designer Stage manager Theatre manager Sample Courses Play Directing Mime and Movement Acting Stagecraft, Scene Design and Lighting Costuming Extracurricular Activities TASC (Theatre at Sterling College)	Faculty
		Matthew Winning Assistant Professor of Theatre Arts
		Aaron Kennedy Assistant Professor of Theatre Arts
		Ken Troyer Assistant Professor of Communication; Chair of the Communications, Media and Theatre Arts Department; Director of Forensics and Debate
		Raymond Anderson Assistant Professor of Communication