Program Overview

Are you passionate about the arts? Do you want to create magic on stage and behind the scenes?A Bachelor of Arts with a major in theatre provides you with a comprehensive understanding of theatre and the skills required to make a show work, both on and off the stage.

Why Earn a Theatre Degree?

The Department of Dance & Theatre is part of the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences at UNT. The diverse curriculum offers breadth and depth in academics and performance.

The theatre program offers a selection of core theatre courses, encompassing various aspects of theatre. After completing the core in each concentration, the student's subsequent coursework is customized. The student can continue to study a broad general degree, or to choose to specialize in performance, design/tech, or theatre studies.

Through our rigorous curriculum, you'll:

• Gain practical experience in costuming, stagecraft, stage lighting, stage management and theatrical makeup through laboratory work
• Have opportunities to perform lead roles, direct, design and stage manage
• Learn how to use your voice and body during performance
• Learn how to prepare plays for performance
• Study actors, plays and playwrights from Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Europe and North America
• Work with faculty members, guest and student directors, and choreographers on productions

Our faculty members are outstanding teachers as well as active professionals and renowned researchers. They include an Emmy nominee, a noted Edward Albee scholar and a recipient of the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for costume design. We sponsor two student organizations — the Drama Lab and the Alpha Psi Omega national honor society — that provide performance and networking opportunities. Our facilities include:

• Acting and directing studios
• Rehearsal rooms
• Shops devoted to costume, set and prop design and construction
• Two full-size performance venues (University Theatre and Studio Theatre)

Department alumni work with professional dance and theatre companies as dancers, choreographers, actors and artistic directors. Others are educators or administrators in universities, public schools, and private and professional studios. Still others have pursued careers in areas such as dance therapy, movement analysis, the dance fitness industry, radio, television, and film.