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MFA Design and Technical Production 

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This degree is for students who desire a professionally oriented education and training in design and technical production, acting and directing. Based on a student’s previous undergraduate or professional experience, substitutions or revisions in the study plan might be appropriate. Average length of time to complete the program is three years. 

The Design & Production program, in the Department of Theatre & Dance, offers unique, personalized, professional training tailored to the needs of Graduate designers and technicians.  

At the program’s core, the mastery of drawing, painting, drafting, model-building, and essential technical skills is continuously stressed, in combination with a firm basis in art history and text analysis.  The aim is to nurture a powerful individual viewpoint, visual acuity, technical proficiency and conceptual flexibility, leading to successful collaborative engagement in a provocative, ever-changing art form.    

The Master of Fine Arts in Theatre Arts (Design) include primary concentrations in Scenic Design, Costume Design, Lighting Design, with secondary concentrations in Make-up and Hair Design, Sound Design, Technical Production and Stage Management.  The repeated (twice for each) Seminars in Scenic Design, Costume Design, Lighting Design and Technical Production are packaged with 400 level classes in the electives category, to target the student’s main area of focus. 

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Courses

  • Core Requirements
    • THTR 500 Introduction to Graduate Study in Theatre
    • THTR 565 Dramatic Textual Analysis
    • THTR 575 Seminar in Theatre History
  • Seminars
    • THTR 566 Seminar in Technical Production
    • THTR 577 Seminar in Costume Design
    • THTR 578 Seminar in Scene Design
    • THTR 585 Seminar in Hair & Make-up
    • THTR 586 Seminar in Lighting Design
    • THTR 587 Seminar in Sound Design
  • Culminating Experience

    University Catalog

Design and Technical Production Courses

  • Graduate Projects in Design
  • Electives
    • THTR 580 Costume Rendering
    • THTR 589 Set Design, Practice & Craft
    • THTR 590 The Art of Draping in Costume
    • THTR 591 Millinary the Art of Hat Making
    • THTR 592 Flat Patterning in Costume
    • Additional Graduate courses in the 400-level

      Electives and other courses must be approved by graduate adviser. 
      University Catalog
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Catalogue description

The Master of Fines Arts in Theatre Arts is for students who desire a professionally oriented education and training in design and technical production, and directing. Based on a student’s previous undergraduate or professional experience, substitutions or revisions in the study plan might be appropriate. Average length of time to complete the program is three years.

At the end of each semester, M.F.A. candidates shall be evaluated by a faculty committee. The committee, by recommendation to the Associate Vice President for Academic Programs, has the authority to retain, dismiss or place candidates on academic notice. Students will be assessed on professionalism, collegiality and progress in coursework and departmental productions.

 

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GOALS: 

•  Be competent and reflective practitioners of the art of theatre;  

•  Be passionate and confident about their work through the success of their realized designs on stage;    

•  Practice successfully collaboration through production;  

•  Be intellectually curious and decisive in exploring new avenues of expression through design and production;  

•  Exercise professional standards or oral, and written and graphic communication; 

•  Be intellectually, technically, creatively, and technologically prepared to be an artist member of their community;  

•  Demonstrate competence in the unification of design elements in professional production;  

•  Designed a minimum of two full realized productions. 

 

The MFA in Design and Production accepts a limited number of candidates each year. Selection for these programs is based on production books, portfolios and interviews. Design and Production faculty also attend the URTA National Unified Auditions and Interviews.

 

MFA Intent to Apply application
MFA Frequently Asked Questions

 

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