The Theatre School 's undergraduate program is a highly specialized conservatory offering twelve Bachelors of Fine Arts (BFA) programs in all aspects of the theatre. Each of our twelve BFA majors is a four-year professional training program designed to provide our students with not only the skills but the experience necessary to prepare them for their career.
Individual Attention. We have strict capacities for each of our programs which are designed to provide each student with personalized instruction and ample production opportunities for practical experience.
Highly Structured. Each of our twelve majors has a four-year progression-based curriculum, with each quarter building on the previous quarter and each year building on the previous year. Responsibilities and expectations of our students increase each year both in the classroom and in production.
Learning By Doing. Learning does not stop in the classroom. Each year The Theatre School produces more than 40 productions - of varying shapes and sizes - to give our student ample opportunity to synthesize what they are learning in the classroom. Outside of the director of each of these productions - who is a member of the faculty, a guest artist or a graduate directing student - every other person involved in the production is a student doing what he or she is here to study. Student in some majors are also placed in professional internships a bridge to their chosen career field.
Working Professionals. Our students learn from people who know what it is like to work in business - because they do. The Theatre School has 28 full-time tenure-track faculty who are all accomplished theatre professionals and continue their professional work while teaching our students. We also employ more than 50 adjunct, or part-time, faculty who are hired right out of the Chicago theatre community for their individual expertise. Being a professional training program, it is important to us that our faculty has a finger on the pulse of what is happening in the profession and bring that into the classroom.
