The Theatre Department curriculum encompasses all aspects of theatrical design and production. Furthermore, you will have many opportunities to put what you learn in your classes into practice. Virtually every production includes numerous student designers.
In an attempt to better serve the campus, community, and students we are committed to maintaining and utilizing the latest technology, industry standards, and procedures in our facilities, productions and training. We ensure this by enlisting the aide of local professionals. Professional designers, stage managers, directors and technicians are frequently hired to work on productions with our students or to teach selected courses. Additionally, our faculty and staff are active in the local performing arts community outside of the university. As a student, you are in a position to take advantage of these contacts. This allows you to create job contacts within the industry and to develop your communication skills before you graduate. As a student, the training you receive by working on departmental productions will prepare you to work in various different types of facilities and conditions. Local theatres and industry related companies call our students to work in various capacities on a paid and volunteer basis.
Coursework provides an essential foundation on which you will build, but the most valuable learning tool is actual production work. With this in mind, we consider our productions to be labs, similar to the sciences, in which theory is put into practice. In the Department of Theatre at the University of Indianapolis, we believe your training should prepare you not only for what is current practice today, but to provide a basis upon which to understand the standards of the future.
We also hire theatre professionals from the Indianapolis theatre community as teachers, designers, directors, and technicians. This allows you to network with working professionals, and to gain broader artistic perspectives. Please visit our Guest Artist page for more information about these theatre artists.
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