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A serious, intensive, and integrated major with classroom work realized through an active production program including: four to five faculty-directed productions and twelve to sixteen student productions annually. Classes are offered in dramatic literature, visual creativity, the creative process, playwriting, acting (improvisation, scene study, acting styles), directing, and set, lighting, and costume design.
The department offers a 12 course major in theatre designed to provide a balance of study between history, literature, and criticism of the arts and skills of performance and production. Approximately 60 students elect a major in Theatre, and more than 300 students enroll in department courses each year. Alumni are increasingly active in the profession and often return to Middlebury to teach, act, and direct for the program.
View the latest edition of the Middlebury Theatre Alumni News http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/ump/majors/theatre/about/alumni_news.htm
Guest artists for short and long-term residencies: Recently these have included actors from the Royal National Theatre, the Royal Shakespeare Company, and visiting directors from New York City, London, Washington, Chicago, Seattle, and Minneapolis.
Departmental involvement in regional theatre festivals, scholarship and graduate assistantship audition programs.
Affiliation with a professional theatre company, the Potomac Theatre Project, affords opportunities to act, stage manage, and work in production and administration during the summers in New York City.