Department of Theatre Arts
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1500 N. Warner Street
Tacoma,Washington 98416
253.879.3330
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Bachelor of Arts in Theatre Arts Minor in Theatre
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Theatre Arts offers courses and creative activities in which students learn to make, understand, and evaluate theatrical events. In doing so, students acquire knowledge and skills that enable them to become collaborative, informed, imaginative, and engaged theatre makers, who - as artists, scholars, and citizens - will pursue paths after graduation in professional theatre, education, business, and other fields of endeavor. The faculty is committed to theatre as a liberal art and an emphasis on the total artist. Majors, minors, and non-majors develop skills and connect insights in acting, directing, design, production, dramaturgy, research, and writing throughout their coursework, culminating in thesis projects presented as part of Senior Theatre Festival. Through participation in student- and faculty- directed productions, students ground their study of theatre in rehearsal and performance. Department productions provide the university and local community with the opportunity to experience high-quality theatre of diverse style, content, and form from a variety of historical periods.
Notable Alumni Include:
Casey Sander '79 Working Actor Sally Eames '89, Wall Street Journal, Best of the Best for 2012 Performance Alan Ayckbourn's Woman in Mind Hollywood Is Mad for Darby Stanchfield '93 Eastside Preparatory School, Michael Cruz '97, Teacher and Professional Actor Shannon Hessell, PhD (O'Donnell) '97, Assistant Professor, Copenhagen Business School Rev. Gretchen Haley '97, Foothills Unitarian Church, Fort Collins, CO Hallie Beaune, Actor and The Beer Chicks, author with Christina Perozzi of The Naked Pint Pannill Camp '99, PhD, Assistant Professor, Washington Univ. in St. Louis; scholar. Nick Williams '00, Composer and Performer, "The Gay Agenda"; teacher, St. Ann's School, Brooklyn Walt Jones '01, Oscar, Life of Pi Ben Shelton '03, Web Series, Film Maker Eric Ankrim '03 Actor, Director; First Date on Broadway Wes Andrews '04 Writer and Producer Anne Gish '04, Backstage Manager, Teatro ZinZanni Airiel Quintana '13 "Beginning at Home" from Diversity & Democracy
Faculty Info:
Sara E. Freeman, Kurt Walls, Jess K Smith, Wind Woods, Quill Camp, Marilyn Bennett, Monica Cortes Viharo.
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