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Bryn Mawr Department of Theatre

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The Theater Program is made up of working artists. Everyone involved has their own creative life—they act, direct, research, write, design, and make all sorts of things, here at Bryn Mawr and beyond the campus, in their own lives. As artists committed to the development of their own creative practices, faculty and staff are deeply committed to helping students develop a creative practice and lives of their own as artists. Why is all that important? Assistant Professor of Theater Catharine Slusar, an actor and director and the program's main acting professor, has this to say about the role of theater and the arts in a liberal arts education: Theater is like a curiosity engine that helps to form agile minds through learning to dissect metaphor and imagine new worlds from a variety of perspectives. This curiosity serves to further students in any major they choose to pursue. We cannot create new worlds, new vaccines, new experiments unless we can imagine them. bell hooks writes, “The function of art is to do more than tell it like it is—it’s to imagine what is possible.” We cannot imagine if we do not learn to question and to wonder. The study of theater and the arts is not an extra; it is essential to a true liberal arts education. Students do not need to major or minor in theater to be involved (but they can!). And students don’t need to want a career in theater (although, faculty and staff will happily guide them in that direction if that is the goal—even for those who are not majors). Every student involved in the Theater Program is welcome to audition, take classes, work in production, dig deep, ask questions, and expand their liberal arts education and their lives as creative thinkers through the work done here.

Faculty Info:

Mark E. Lord, Maiko Matsushima, Catharine Slusar.



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