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1501 West Bradley Avenue
Peoria,Illinois 61625
309.677.2660
admissions@bradley.edu

DEGREES OFFERED

Bachelor of Arts in Theatre Production

Bachelor of Arts in Theatre Performance

Bachelor of Science in Theatre Performance

Bachelor of Science in Theatre Production

Minor in Theatre Arts


As a theatre student at Bradley, you will participate in every aspect of theatre making beginning with your first semester-- through classes, production assignment on our fall musical, and a meaningful role on or offstage in a new student event like New Faces, Fall Forward or the Freshman Production. If you aspire to a professional career in theatre performance or production, our small, intensive program offers you a personal trajectory of academic rigor, skill-building and real practice at advanced levels of your area of concentration, and the preparation you need to be successful after college. Our distinguished alumni include Eric Peterson, Broadway’s Shrek and TV’s Kirstie; Neil Flynn of Scrubs and The Middle; and Oscar-winning makeup artist, Tami Lane, of The Lord of the Rings trilogy. Recent BU Theatre grads have gone on to attend graduate theatre programs at Penn State University, Florida State University, Long Island University, Illinois State University and elsewhere. Others are successfully pursuing performance and production careers in the entertainment centers of Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York. Still others are educators, filmmakers, engineers, executives, authors, and attorneys.

Acceptance Rate:

Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois has an acceptance rate of 77%


Faculty Info:

Scott Kanoff, Becki Arnold, Jeffrey Huberman, Sara Gauwitz, Marty Burgeson, Sarah Salazar, Chad Lowell, Steve Warner, Daniel Matisa, Johanna Miller, Travis Stern



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Past Student Productions

SHOW THEATER
Here Comes the Drone
(11/20/19 - 11/24/19)
Bradley University
PETER AND THE STARCATCHER in Broadway PETER AND THE STARCATCHER
(9/26/19 - 10/6/19)
BRADLEY UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF THEATRE ARTS
Sense and Sensibility
(4/25/19 - 5/5/19)
Bradley University
Silent Sky
(2/28/19 - 3/10/19)
Bradley University

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