The M.F.A. in Theatre is a 60-credit, two year, full-time program, including summer sessions, and includes a core curriculum that all students will complete, as well as individual tracks in acting, playwriting, and directing. The program features the creation of a theatre company, and therefore enrollment in each year will be limited to enhance experiential components. Performances by the company, including the thesis project, will take place in New York City at a rented theatre, providing students with professional credits on their resume along with their degree. A special collaboration with...

Hofstra University’s MFA in Creative Writing is home to a vibrant community of writers. They come to our program from as close as Long Island and from as far away as Angola, China, Hungary, Italy, Nigeria, and South Korea. At the heart of our program are workshops, craft courses, and literature seminars led by a distinguished faculty of actively publishing writers of international reputation. We believe in the power of language to embody everything human and that an empathic imagination can and must go where it pleases. With close mentorship, students discover their authentic voice and come...

We are committed to maintaining our identity as an intimate, practical and cutting-edge program for writers of all genres, including Dramatic Writing. We admit a small number of students each year so that each student can work closely and directly with our award-winning faculty.

The MFA program has four tracks: poetry writing, fiction writing, playwriting, and literary translation. The course of study centers on writing workshop classes in which faculty lead students in critiques of one another’s writing. Students take three workshops in their own genre, and a crossover workshop in another genre, and they take two craft classes, one in their own genre and one in another genre.

The Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning (JCAL), founded in 1972, is a multidisciplinary arts center based in the diverse community of Southeast Queens. It devoted its mission to offer quality visual, performing, and literary arts, and to provide accessible education programs to encourage participation in the arts.

Mind-Builders Creative Arts Center provides quality Music, Dance, Theater, Voice, and Martial Arts classes for more than 700 students a year. Group and private lessons provide study in modern/jazz, tap, ballet, hip-hop, salsa, praise, and African dance forms, martial arts, saxophone, flute, clarinet, Suzuki violin, violin, guitar, bass, drum/percussion, keyboard, piano, and voice. In addition, Mind-Builders offers two workshop programs for teens, the Positive Youth Troupe musical theater program, and the Community Folk Culture intern research program. Located in the North East Bronx, Mind-...

Open Hydrant Theater Company @ The Point's mission is to maintain an ensemble-based theater company in the densely populated, yet under-served, community of the South Bronx. Our purpose is to produce yearly seasons of creative works based largely on, but not limited to, non-traditional, interactive interpretation of Shakespeare's plays, as well as other literary classics and work by new playwrights. Making theatre a family experience is a priority. We are committed to empowering a diverse group of creative artists, especially the youth, whose work is designed to educate, entertain and help...

Like the College at large, the Graduate Program in Theatre emphasizes an individualized learning process. Each student’s course of study is unique, and is created in consultation with the program director and faculty in response to the student’s background, interests, strengths, and artistic training requirements. We emphasizes theatre-making as an integrative practice. Each student develops a program of study that draws from courses in acting, Alexander Technique, breathing, comedic and dramatic improvisation, creation of original work, design, directing, history, movement, playwriting,...

The B.A. in Theatre program challenges students in a rigorous, liberal arts curriculum that combines study in acting, dance, stagecraft, playwriting, theatre history, and drama with practical experience in producing, technical theatre, and arts management. The program is intended for those who envision a career as an actor, director, playwright, theatre administrator, technical director or stage manager, or in related professions, such as law, business, and management.

We combine rigorous coursework in the liberal arts and sciences with world-class conservatory programs in the visual and performing arts.

Dance Theatre of Harlem is a leading dance institution of unparalleled global acclaim whose mission is to: • Present a ballet Company of African American and other racially diverse artists who perform the most demanding repertory at the highest level of quality; • Maintain a world-class school that trains young people in classical ballet and the allied arts and; • Provide arts education, community outreach programs, and positive role models for all

Harlem School of the Arts empowers youth to reach their full potential in the arts, education, and life, through interdisciplinary arts training that celebrates the rich complexity of their community.