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  • Department of Theatre and Dance
    222 Wright Building
    Davis, CA 95616
    Tel: (530) 752-8710
    Fax: (530) 752-8818
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  • 250 Mrak Hall
    One Shields Avenue
    Davis, CA 95616

    Phone: (530) 752-0650
    Fax: (530) 752-6222
Dramatic Art

Application Deadline

  • Priority: Jan. 15
  • Final: May 31
  • Prospective Student Fellowship: Jan. 15
  • Continuing Student Fellowship: Jan. 15

Degrees Offered

  • M.F.A.

Designated Emphases

Admission Requirements

  • Portfolio
  • Resume
  • For acting and choreography, a recording of performances

Administrative Bylaws

The two-year program in Dramatic Art is designed to provide a course of rigorous, advanced training and practice that enables early to mid-career artists to polish their skills and expand areas of expertise in order to develop artistically and professionally. With the focus firmly on interdisciplinary practice, the program is resolutely forward-looking, affording you the opportunity to create and realize new dimensions of classical and contemporary performance. A collaborative curriculum of interdisciplinary seminars covers a full spectrum of performance practices, including acting, directing, choreography and design. Outside these courses, students are expected to pursue studies that will augment their specialties and open up new areas of expertise. They may, for example, elect to extend command over movement; directors may study lighting design; choreographers may examine acting techniques; designers may focus on the construction of a plays with the aim of perfecting new skills while expanding range.

This is a Departmentally-based Graduate Program.

For more information, visit the Dramatic Art Web site.

Contacts

Program Chair
David Grenke Dramatic Art 530-754-9211
Academic Advisers
David Grenke Dramatic Art 7/1/08 - 6/30/10 530-754-9211
Maggie Morgan Dramatic Art 7/1/08 - 6/30/10 530-752-4582
Graduate Program Staff Coordinator
Victoria Dye The Arts Administrative Group (530) 752-8710
Student Affairs Officer (SAO) in the Office of Graduate Studies
Jean Telford Graduate Studies (530) 752-9292