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The Playwright’s Lab at Hollins University is more than a traditional three-year degree program. Similar to an intensive workshop/retreat or conference, it promotes inclusivity and collaboration, not exclusivity and competition. Students work with some of the most important names in new play development. Unlike other programs, The New Works Initiative provides opportunities for the production of student work at professional theatres. The combination of intense training and professional experience gives Hollins playwriting graduates an edge in the industry.

Convention registration and SETC membership is required for all individuals participating in the Ten-Minute Play Festival. Sometimes the best way to take exciting risks, jump at new chances, and explore new ideas is to remove the time it takes to talk ourselves out of it, and the SETC Ten Minute Play Festival strives to do just that! By working within a strict guideline of one twenty-four hour period playwrights, actors, and directors band together to create brand new works and present them in front of an audience under a fun and intense time crunch. New play development is such an...

The Hollins theatre department is a creative community, and we embrace this identity in the classroom, the rehearsal hall, the scene shop, and on stage. We engage in the development of theatre artists, thinkers, and leaders looking to change the future of American theatre. Hollins theatre students actively help to shape departmental vision, policies, and programming, and are encouraged to create student-generated work that expresses their personal creative vision. Hollins’ nationally recognized theatre program allows students to identify and apply their own strengths. We help each student...

Our three-year curriculum offers tracks in poetry and fiction, and we encourage students to work across genres by offering additional courses in creative non-fiction, playwriting, new media creative writing, and literary editing.

James Madison University (JMU) is seeking applicants for the Director of the School of Theatre and Dance (STAD). This position is within the College of Visual and Performing Arts (CVPA) and is a 12-month tenured appointment that will begin July 1, 2022, at the rank of Professor. The Director will work collaboratively and inclusively with the Dean, faculty, and staff to promote the goals of the school, college, and university. We are looking for leadership candidates who represent and support diverse perspectives and who can contribute to a department committed to social justice through work...

The School of Theatre and Dance is rooted in the belief that the relevant artist is the thinking artist who couples the mastery and embodiment of concrete skills with knowledge of and sensitivity to the cultural environments of ideas, artistic forms, and other persons. The school trains and educates artists, scholars, and teachers in the rich traditions and current practices of dance, theatre, and musical theatre. The school’s programs blend liberal arts education and critical thinking with intensive, pre-professional training and practice. Faculty foster an environment that values and...

North Carolina A&T's Theatre Arts program is nationally ranked by Black Broadway as one of the top five for African American students.

The Division of Arts and Sciences empowers students as critical thinkers and participating citizens in pursuit of truth, beauty, spirituality, social justice, and global leadership. Programs in the division, including Theatre, B.A., or B.F.A. provide students with academic and technical training in the use of the scientific method and in formal, logical, deductive reasoning.

The Department of Theatre educates and trains students in the fields of performance, design / technology, and theatre pedagogy. The department provides students with the professional and cultural foundations essential for achieving the highest standards of the art of theatre. Our faculty and alumni practice their craft as artists locally, regionally, nationally, and internationally. They work on the stage, in TV and films, author books in their disciplines, and hold elected offices in some of the nation’s most prestigious organizations. Collectively, the faculty and staff pride themselves on...

North Carolina Central University's Department of Theatre is designed to satisfy the needs of a broad range of enthusiastic students, give them the widest possible exposure to accomplishments in theatre, and provide experiences that will develop them as capable theatre practitioners.

VSU’s Sankofa Dance Theatre was founded in 1999 by Dr. Benita Brown, Associate Professor of Dance at Virginia State University. It is a professionally-trained performing arts group that performs modern-jazz choreography. The company’s membership consists of students matriculating in dance through the dance minor under the auspices of the Department of Health, Physical Education, Recreation, Dance, and Sport Management. VSU’s Sankofa Dance Theatre performs locally and nationally. The dance students teach ballet, jazz, modern, and hip hop dance classes to children within the surrounding...