Career Opportunities
- Actor
- Director
- Playwright
- Scenic Designer
- Costume Designer
- Lighting Designer
- Arts Administrator
- Singer
- Dramaturg
- Stage Manager
- Technical Director
- Stagehand
- Production Manager
Multidisciplinary Skills
Collaboration
Empathy
Writing
Script analysis
Voice and speech
Movement
Acting
Research
Technical theatre
Design
Directing
Stage management
Singing
Stage combat
Critical thinking
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The Department of English and the Department of Theatre offer an interdisciplinary combined major in English and theatre. Students in the combined major in English and theatre integrate knowledge of the art of theatre, including performance, design, and production, with literary studies, digital humanities, and creative writing. The combined major offers both classroom and experiential learning in the practices of making theatre, playwriting, and dramaturgy with the study of the diverse historical, cultural, and aesthetic contexts of English and American literatures. Students develop the capacity for interpreting a variety of texts through performance and writing to engage diverse audiences.
Learning Outcomes
- Apply a broad and deep knowledge of theatre as an art form to their work, including:
• Foundational skills in performance, design, and production
• Comprehensive understanding of theatre history, theory, and literature
• Oral, visual, written expression of ideas with clarity and originality - Make theatre with integrity
• Create or interpret a play
• Collaborate generously
• Apply a personalized technique to the process of making imaginative, innovative theatre - Make informed choices as theatrical entrepreneurs through professional readiness
- Reflect on the cultural, social, and ethical impact and contributions that theatre has made to societies and communities
Co-Op Opportunities
- Disney ABC Television Group
- Actor’s Shakespeare Project
- American Repertory Theatre
- Arts Boston
- Boston Ballet
- Boston Lyric Opera
- Bridge Repertory Theater
- The Broadway League
- Center stage
- Central Square Theatre
- Citi Center for the Performing Arts
- Classic Stage Company
- Commonwealth Shakespeare Company
- Company One
- Dixon Place
- Hanover Theatre
- Horton Lees Brogden Lighting Design
- Huntington Theatre Company
- Lincoln Center
- Manhattan Theatre Club
- Miami Theater Center
- New Repertory Theatre
- Paramount Theatre
- Salem Theatre Company
- Second Stage Theatre
- Speakeasy Stage
- StageSource
- Stoneham Theatre
- Theatre Communications Group
- Theatre Offensive
- Vineyard Theatre
- Zeitgeist Stage
