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A Northeastern Theatre education aligns collaborative theatre-making (production, design, and performance) with academic study and practice-based research. Our students develop a rich foundation for meaningful and prosperous careers through experiential learning. We are committed to the ongoing pursuit of intersectional social and racial justice. We incorporate diverse methodologies, approaches, and measures of success. While we engage with the moment in which we live, we are constantly evolving, learning, and adapting.

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Productions

Gain experience and build community by joining a production as an actor, crew member or production team member.

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2023–2024 Productions

We are so excited to announce our 2023-2024 production program. We look forward to another year of thoughtful and exciting work from our students, faculty, guest artists, and staff.

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The Theatre Brochure

An overview of everything Theatre @ NU has to offer for prospective students, including our mission, programs, creative spaces, and student project highlights.

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Theatre is where we rehearse for the unexpected and where we learn to live with uncertainty. Students learn to engage artistically in difficult conversations and make sense of what they witness around them.

Antonio Ocampo-Guzman

Associate Professor & Chair, Theatre

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Our Programs

Start your journey to becoming a multidisciplinary theatre practitioner. Choose from a BA/BS in Theatre or from a list of combined majors across Art + Design, Communication Studies, and Journalism.

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Experiential Learning & Student Opportunities

Connect with a network of professional theatremakers through co-ops and learning opportunities in arts organizations in Boston and beyond.

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Social and Racial Justice Commitments

We commit to building and sustaining a welcoming, inclusive, and equitable community: an antiracist and anti-oppressive space where all individuals can participate freely and honestly.

We commit to working towards decolonizing theatre. We strive to recognize our own privilege, to use our platform to reflect the times and to advocate for historically marginalized voices at NU and beyond.

We commit to holding every member of our community accountable in moving towards a better future.

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Latest Theatre News

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Theatre

What makes a fight scene hit?

Teaching professor of theatre and fight coordinator Jesse Hinson breaks down what makes fight scenes work in popular films like "The Matrix," "Mission: Impossible -- Fallout" and "The Princess Bride."

February 23, 2024

Theatre

An interactive capstone, based on her family's past

Fourth-year student Andie Weiner was recently named the Gideon Klein Scholar, awarding her $5,000 for her research into her family's history in the Netherlands in the shadow of the Nazis.

January 24, 2024

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Ilya Vidrin awarded Knight Foundation grant

CAMD professor Ilya Vidrin combines his background as a dancer and choreographer with his experience in neuroscience and robotics to help design biofeedback technology and explore meaning through physical movement.

January 8, 2024

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