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Department of Theatre and Dance - Theatre

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1834 Wake Forest Road
Winston-Salem,North Carolina 27109
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Bachelor of Arts in Theatre

Minor in Theatre


The Department of Theatre and Dance offers students an exceptional education in theatre and dance, and plays an integral role in the Wake Forest community. We are a creative and collegial department that values close working relationships between students and faculty, that sees the arts as integral to a liberal arts education, and that prizes intellectual discipline as well as free thinking and expression. We aspire to create exceptional artist/scholars, exploring through classes and productions intersections of theatre and dance with other realms of study, and giving expression to humanity’s foremost social and intellectual concerns. We promote inclusivity, intellectual curiosity, innovation, dialogue, and problem-solving skills. And we believe that artistic commitment, personal development, responsibility to one’s community, and academic rigor can all coexist. Each season, the department mounts four subscription series productions, two dance concerts, and numerous student-directed and designed pieces. Students learn through work on productions—whether in the rehearsal hall or shop–as well as through classwork in acting and directing, dance technique, choreography, design, playwriting, voice and movement, history, dramatic literature, performance art, theatre education, and technical theatre.

Notable Alumni Include:

Ward Horton, Melissa Joyner, Matthew Gutschick, Caroline Dignes, Kate Lambert




Faculty Info:

Sharon Andrews, Lynn Book, Jon Christman, J.K. Curry, Brook Davis, Rob Eastman-Mullins, Kevin Frazier, Cynthia Gendrich, Michael Huie, Michael Kamtman, Leah Elyce Roy, Jeff Sherwood, Mary Wayne-Thomas.



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Past Student Productions

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Silent Sky
(3/31/23 - 4/9/23)
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Proof
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Men on Boats
(9/24/21 - 10/3/21)
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Beautiful Thing
(2/12/21 - 2/21/21)
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