MTSU Write is a from-home mentorship program within the English Department. It is a three-semester program, working with new and experienced writers in fiction, non-fiction, poetry, screenwriting, and playwriting.

We are an independent, nonprofit advocacy group created to identify, unite and promote arts, culture, and heritage throughout Rutherford County, Tennessee. Founded as a 501(c)(3) in late 2018, our mission is to: Advocate for all aspects of our cultural community Promote Rutherford County as a cultural and heritage community and destination Communicate the social and economic impact of the arts Create opportunities for networking, collaboration, education, and economic success Define current arts gaps and create a united front to address these gaps As our tagline states, our purpose is “...

The New Works Series intends to cultivate and nurture the talent of the next generation of Southern playwrights, composers, and lyricists, as we feel it is our responsibility to follow in the footsteps of great American Southern playwrights such as Tennessee Williams, Beth Henley, and Wayne Kirkpatrick (among others). Furthermore, the Studio Tenn New Works Series strives to deconstruct the notion of what voices, themes, and stories historically come from the Southern region of the United States.We are thrilled to showcase the work of the next generation of Southern playwrights and composers,...

Created in 2009 with the support of co-founder Martha R. Ingram to provide an opportunity for theater artists to develop new theater works while in residency at Nashville Rep. The program has evolved to include a New Works Lab for emerging playwrights. Lab Playwrights develop new works for the stage alongside the Ingram New Works Fellow in a yearlong residency culminating in the annual Ingram New Works Festival.

The Ingram New Works Project empowers exceptional new voices to write the stories they are most passionate about. Ingram New Works and Nashville Repertory Theatre provide playwrights with season-long developmental support, travel, lodging, hospitality, networking, and audiences, allowing them to focus on what they do best: creating powerful, necessary, impactful new plays. The three pieces of the Project are the Lab, Fellowship, and Festival.Since 2009, the Ingram New Works Project has supported the development of over 60 new plays. We are the playwrights’ home away from home, powered by...

The Belmont Theatre program is a student-centered professional training program that prepares students for work in a variety of entertainment fields. The Department of Theatre & Dance is committed to a liberal arts foundation as an effective means of preparing students who want to pursue theatre as a life's work. This commitment is reflected in the system of training that stresses the collaborative and interdisciplinary nature of the theatrical performance and production process.

The Belmont Theatre program is a student-centered professional training program that prepares students for work in a variety of entertainment fields. The Department of Theatre & Dance is committed to a liberal arts foundation as an effective means of preparing students who want to pursue theatre as a life's work. This commitment is reflected in the system of training that stresses the collaborative and interdisciplinary nature of the theatrical performance and production process.

Founded in 2016, Pipeline-Collective creates guerilla-style theatre, with emphasis on the craft of the actor, dynamic storytelling, and theatrical magic on a shoestring budget. We cultivate relationships and collaborations across state lines and into non-arts realms. Through innovative programming such as the Playground Series – which seeks to make theatre “dark nights” a thing of the past – and theatrical benefits that call attention to the work of charitable organizations, Pipeline-Collective extends the reach of the arts, empowering theatremakers to tell their stories.

The purpose of the Sewanee School of Letters is to provide a Master’s program of the best quality, in English and in Creative Writing, to students who have only summers to devote to study. The faculty consists both of Sewanee professors, from English and allied departments, and distinguished faculty from other campuses. Courses are rigorous, but the atmosphere intimate and friendly. Each entering class will number around 25 and total enrollment will never be much more than 100. Completion of the MFA in Creative Writing requires ten course credits. Eight of these credits will be earned...

The Professional Actor Training Program (PATP): a two-year program for students who desire to pursue careers in the theatre, film, and television. View Curriculum Details. The Theatre Arts Major through the Tennessee Transfer Pathway (TTP): earn an Associates Degree with a theatre major in two years. All courses are guaranteed to transfer to any four year public institution in Tennessee. View A.A. TTP Details and A.S. TTP Details Theatre Electives: degree seeking and transfer students can take Introduction to Theatre (THEA 1030) to fulfills one of the Humanities & Fine Arts general...

One of the few low-residency MFA programs whose graduate students work on their scripts with local professional actors and directors. During your first year in the Stage & Screen track, you will write a full-length script in both disciplines. For your second year, you can choose to concentrate in either stage or screen, or you can choose to write another full-length play and another screenplay. Either way, you will leave the program with four full-length scripts and three ten-minute plays. You may write additional scripts (like short screenplays, TV scripts, and one-acts) for your...