BFA in Acting

About this program

If your passion is acting or theatre, we will help you create the career you dream of! In the School of Performing Arts, you will have an immense variety of courses and projects to engage in opportunities through plays, films, audio shows, musicals, readings, and more. As an Acting and Theatre Studies Major You will learn from nationally and internationally recognized faculty. You will have opportunities to participate in classical and contemporary plays and musicals, in our three theatre spaces and work on camera through film projects. You can try your hand in all areas of production: costume, lighting, scenic/properties, management, directing and film. You will create original work through classroom laboratories, production participation, student-driven projects and senior capstone projects. You will work with America's newest playwrights through our National Student Playwriting Competition and the writers that we bring to campus as part of our season. You will have the opportunity to travel to conferences and workshops such as the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival, Society of American Fight Directors, and annual trips to NYC. You get conservatory quality training at WSU's competitive tuition rate. You will follow in the footsteps of alumni who have worked as designers, performers and technicians with Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre, American Shakespeare Center, Casa Mañana, Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, Cirque du Soliel, Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati, Goodman Theatre, Huntington Stage, Illinois Shakespeare Festival, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Utah Shakespeare Festival, and in Beetlejuice (2024), Sully (directed by Clint Eastwood, and television shows such as Unusual Suspects, Modern Family, True Blood, CSI: NY and more.

Audition & application overview

• Requires a live or recorded audition

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