Theatre Arts BFA, Performance Concentration
Looking for conservatory-style actor training? Theatre’s Performance Concentration may be for you!
Theatre Performance Concentration – Bachelor of Fine Arts
Theatre Arts BFA, Performance Concentration
Offered as a Bachelor of Fine Arts
The Performance Concentration offers intensive, conservatory-style training to actors and performers working towards professional careers in the arts. Students accepted into the Performance Concentration will complete sequenced coursework in acting, movement, and voice and speech. A wide variety of elective courses are also available, allowing students to tailor their training to their own interests. Elective topics include Auditioning, Business of Acting, Shakespeare, Voiceover, Film Acting, Musical Theatre, Commedia dell’arte, Masks, Accents and Dialects, Dance, and more. Students that successfully complete the Performance Concentration are eligible to audition for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s acting internship program.
Degree Fit
Program Preparation
The Performance Concentration may be taken as part of the Theatre BFA degree path, and requires an additional 57-65 credits beyond the core Theatre degree. Admission to the Performance Concentration is by audition only, and limited to enrolled Theatre majors who have successfully completed Introduction to Acting and other foundational, first-year Theatre courses.
Degree Roadmap
Starting with the foundational sequential track of course work, a Theatre Major can choose to specialize in a certain area of emphasis after their sophomore year. Once accepted, BFA candidates will take additional classes in their area of emphasis as well as being held to rigorous academic standards in their course work. The BFA candidate will work more closely with a specific faculty mentor to gain hands-on experience in theatrical productions through professional guidance and instruction.
Capstone
The BFA degree requires the completion of a creative project that demonstrates proficiency in the candidate’s field of emphasis. The BFA thesis is the culminating of the four-year undergraduate theatre training experience. Whether as part of a departmental production or a proposed independent project, the BFA candidate works in conjunction with a faculty mentor from proposal to completion of the thesis which will prepare and propel the candidate into career possibilities within the professional theatre world.
Guided Pathways
Contact: Gretchen Kirkpatrick, Theatre Administrative Program Assistant – 541.552.6346 – kirkpatrg@sou.edu
Associate Degree Paths
Associate of General Studies, Art Interest, RCC – Theatre Arts AA Transfer, PCC – Theatre AA Transfer, UCC
Similar Majors
Theatre BFA – DCIN – EMDA
Similar Minors & Certificates
Certificate in Costume and Character Design – Certificate in Directing and Devising – Certificate in Lighting Design and Technology – Certificate in Musical Theatre – Certificate in Production Fabrication – Certificate in Scenic and Environment Design – Certificate in Shakespeare Studies – Certificate in Theatre and Arts Management
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Contact the Theatre Program
SOU Theatre Program
1250 Siskiyou Blvd.
Ashland, OR 97520
541.552.6181
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