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Best fit for:
• First-time college students or transfers
• Students 18-22
• Residential students at our main campus
Who will my professors be?
Kathy Blandin
Bill Gabelhausen
John Spiegel
QUESTIONS?
Our Undergraduate Admissions team can help!
Undergraduate Admissions
P: 706-776-0103
E: ugrad@piedmont.edu
Develop powerful skills on and off the stage.
As an inherently interdisciplinary liberal arts program, the Theatre Arts degree evidences the reading, writing, speaking, and research skills sought by prospective employers and professional schools.
Many theatre arts majors are successful in law school, mass communications, public relations, and other fields. Various degree programs are available.
The theatre program offers academic study and hands-on learning in the areas of acting, directing, production, costuming, set design and construction, sound, lights, theatre management, children's theatre, playwriting, movement and voice for actors, theatre history, and dramaturgy. By actively participating in all facets of theatre production, students develop performance, technical and analytical skills. The department produces a variety of theatrical events each semester.
The mission of the Piedmont University Theatre Department is to provide rigorous academic training for students in both performance and technical theatre, to provide audiences with quality productions of the highest caliber, to explore the full range of theatrical offerings from the classical to the contemporary, and to foster professionalism, creativity, and camaraderie. The theatre department performs its shows in the Swanson Center Mainstage Theater, Swanson Center Black Box Theater, and at the Arrendale Amphitheatre.
What classes will I take?
THTR 1150. Technical Theater Practicum or THTR 1151. Acting Practicum
THTR 2205. Fundamentals of Technical Theater
THTR 2210. Fundamentals of Acting
THTR 2215. Script Analysis
THTR 3301. Theatre History I
THTR 3302. Theater History II
THTR 4410. Fundamentals of Directing
THTR 4460. Senior Project
ENGL 3311. Drama or ENGL 4405. Shakespeare
THTR 1150. Technical Theater Practicum or THTR 1151. Acting Practicum
THTR 2420. Selected Topics in Theatre
ENGL 3311. Drama
ENGL 4405. Shakespeare
Find the theatre program that's right for you.
Prepare to Make a Life
What can I do with a major in THEATRE ARTS?
Piedmont students have gone on to pursue careers in:
- Public Relations
- Communications
- Teaching
- Playwriting
- Directing
- Acting
- Costuming
- Management
Where do I start?
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