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1100 North Avenue
Grand Junction,Colorado 81501
970.248.1233
admissions@coloradomesa.edu

DEGREES OFFERED

Bachelor of Fine Arts in Acting/Directing

Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance

Bachelor of Fine Arts in Design/Technology

Bachelor of Fine Arts in Music Theatre

Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre Arts

Minor in Communication Studies

Minor in Dance

Minor in Theatre


Our department is just the right size to offer tons of opportunities and top-notch, rigorous training. It is large enough to tackle ambitious projects and yet small and flexible enough to tailor to your particular needs. Classes are intimate, with a small student to faculty ratio, allowing for significant individual attention. Each season’s productions are picked specifically for the current class of students. Colorado Mesa University is strategically located at the hub of a circle of important entertainment centers such as Aspen, Telluride, Moab, and Park City, Utah. There are regional theatres of international repute within driving distance, such as the Utah Shakespeare Festival, the Denver Center for the Performing Arts and the Colorado Shakespeare Festival.

Faculty Info:

Scott Andrews, Amanda Benzin, Holly Buglewicz, Paula Casey, DeArtha Chambers, Jeremy R. Franklin, Nicole Grider, Jeanine A. Howe, Mo LaMee, Michael Legate, Michael Moran, Timothy D. Pinnow, Benjamin Reigel, Matthew Schlief, Jill Van Brussel, James Wallace.



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The University of Texas at Arlington Department of Theatre Arts and Dance will present Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812, the 2012 electropop opera by writer/composer, Dave Malloy, based on Leo Tolstoy's novel War and Peace.

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Past Student Productions

SHOW THEATER
Dracula
(10/5/23 - 10/22/23)
Colorado Mesa University
Guys & Dolls
(10/20/22 - 10/29/22)
Colorado Mesa University Theatre
Exit, Pursued by a Bear by Lauren Gunderson
(4/16/22 - 4/22/22)
Colorado Mesa University
Room Service
(11/4/21 - 11/6/21)
Colorado Mesa University
Fiddler On The Roof in Broadway Fiddler On The Roof
(2/27/20 - 3/7/20)
Colorado Mesa University Theatre
Jacob Marley's Christmas Carol (Mula)
(12/13/19 - 12/15/19)
Colorado Mesa University
First Date
(9/19/19 - 9/28/19)
Colorado Mesa University
Reefer Madness
(2/28/19 - 3/9/19)
Colorado Mesa University
Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead
(2/14/19 - 2/16/19)
Colorado Mesa University
MY FAIR LADY
(2/23/17 - 3/4/17)
Colorado Mesa University
Once Upon a Mattress
(2/26/15 - 3/7/15)
Colorado Mesa University
ALTAR BOYZ in Broadway ALTAR BOYZ
(6/14/13 - 6/29/13)
Colorado Mesa University

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