Carthage’s award-winning 剧院 Department offers challenging classes, an ambitious performance schedule, and the chance to work with top names in the field. The central campus location allows the 剧院 Department to bring in prominent guest artists from Milwaukee and Chicago. Students are active in every facet of Carthage’s original and classic plays.
Carthage 剧院 is committed to creating exciting, compelling new 剧院 works. 自2008年以来, Carthage 剧院 has commissioned playwrights of prominence from around the country and the world to create original plays for our department and work closely with our students to bring them to life. These works receive their world premieres here at Carthage. This unique opportunity means that our students collaborate with playwrights currently active in the highest levels of the 剧院 world.
Carthage is regularly invited to perform these plays at the Kennedy Center’s regional American College Theater Festival, resulting in dozens of national awards and commendations.
Students have many opportunities to be directly engaged in their craft as Carthage produces four faculty- or guest-directed Main Stage shows each year (one of which is always a musical) and multiple student-directed productions in our studio space.
我们的 舞蹈节目 features a yearly faculty-choreographed concert and a student concert. Student directors also stage 2-3 full-length productions yearly in our 80-seat studio space.
Carthage 剧院 students can take 课程 in 剧院 history, directing, playwriting, dance, scene design, costume design, lighting, and more. Budding performers study acting theory, voice training, dance and movement, and scene work.
表演的学生 receive four semesters of acting theory, voice training, body alignment, and scene work. Students are involved in every aspect of theatrical production. These duties include hanging lights, sewing costumes, stage management, and many others.
Carthage offers bachelor of arts degrees in 剧院, 剧院 performance, technical direction, technical costume design, and technical stage management.
Carthage also offers teacher licensure, a 小舞, a costume design minor, and a degree in 音乐剧. 入学 to the program is contingent on an audition.
“My advisors and professors have encouraged me to take risks and take advantage of opportunities that are presented to me. They have helped me grow as a student and as an artist.”
“Carthage, unlike big universities, allowed me to work on multiple 剧院 events and productions my first year instead of having to wait until my junior or senior year.”
“My biggest surprise so far was getting the main role in the play ‘Antigone.’ To play the main character in my first play at Carthage was the highlight of my freshman year.”
“Students should consider being a stage management major because a stage manager is a huge role in the 剧院 world and is an underrated job. Plus, it is one of the most rewarding fields to go into.”
“I chose Carthage because it was important for me to be at a college with small classes where I could get to know my professors.”
“The wonderful thing about Carthage is that there are many different types of performance opportunities, so if you don’t get cast in a show right away, there are other opportunities to audition and perform within the department.”
beyond the classroom
访问ing Professionals
In addition to commissioning guest playwrights through the New Play Initiative, Carthage regularly invites respected professional 剧院 practitioners to campus to work with students. Recent visiting professionals include Tony Award-winning scenic designer Todd Rosenthal, Steppenwolf casting director Erica Daniels, and Milwaukee Repertory Theater associate artistic director Sandy Ernst.
Student Organizations
剧院 majors may be interested in Neil- Futurists, a rule-breaking 剧院 group inspired by a Carthage class or improv group Merely Players. Alpha Psi Omega, a national honor society, honors top 剧院 scholars.
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