BA in Drama
Bennington College — Bennington, VT
About this program
Bennington College's Drama program is ranked #3 in the nation for "Best College Theater" by the Princeton Review and is one of the most distinctive theatre training programs in the United States. Located on a 400-acre campus in Bennington, Vermont, the program is housed in VAPA — the Visual and Performing Arts Center — a 150,000-square-foot home to performing artists featuring the Lester Martin Theater and the Margot Tenney Theater, as well as fully equipped scene and costume shops. Students receive thorough grounding in virtually every dimension of theatre-making: acting, directing, playwriting, devising, theatre history, dramatic literature, dramaturgy, stage management, and design (set, costume, lights, projection, and sound). Faculty are working professional theatre artists actively engaged in the field. At Bennington, students do not declare traditional majors. Instead, they work closely with faculty to design the content, structure, and sequence of their own individualized course of study — called "the Plan" — with ongoing guidance from a faculty advisor and Plan committee. This graduate-style advising begins in the first year. For each term that students take a class in drama, they also complete a technical lab, working in the scene shop, costume shop, or technical crew. Bennington also features a unique Field Work Term each year — a 7-week period in which all students leave campus to pursue professional internships, independent projects, or other fieldwork in their area of focus. Recent drama students have completed Field Work Terms at Roundabout Theatre Company, Brooklyn Academy of Music (as a Lucille Lortel Fellow), and other professional organizations.
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