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The Design program at the School of Theatre is an intensive conservatory program with a national reputation.  The program stresses collaboration, process, and the voice of the individual artist. The School’s Boston University Theatre complex consists of Joan and Edgar Booth Theatre and 855 Commonwealth Avenue with Studios, Black Box Spaces, all of the shops and laboratories needed for creating work for—scenery, costumes, lighting, sound—as well as classrooms and offices for the School’s Design & Production program.

The Department of Theater at Brooklyn College provides an affordable, accessible, outstanding education taught by a nationally recognized faculty of theater artists and leaders. We are a professional training ground in Flatbush Brooklyn set in the epicenter of the theater industry – New York City. We come from around the world and down the block in all different stages of our careers. We are an anti-racist, equitable and inclusive program that reflects and responds to the diverse identities, cultures and experiences of our students. We offer comprehensive undergraduate and graduate degree programs which offer a transformative, affordable, rigorous educational experience. We develop and inspire each theater maker to embrace and express their unique artistic voice.

Dedicated to the development of new voices and new forms, CalArts is one of the preeminent theater training grounds in the country, designed to educate the whole person and to prepare fully equipped theater artists to transform the field.

Each unique Program gives students the flexibility, skills and critical thinking tools to navigate a rapidly changing field and to pursue their professional goals with maximum agency. As the School is based in Los Angeles, the epicenter of film and media production, the curricula give considerable attention to students having the versatility to succeed in a variety of media.

The Master of Fine Arts in Stage Design program at Northwestern University prepares a select group of scenery, costume, and lighting designers for professional careers in the American Theatre, international theater and related design fields. Central to this three-year program of study is an emphasis on intensive collaboration between designers and directors, rigorous analysis of texts, thorough research and a fervent effort to nurture unique artistic voices. It is our belief that passionate, insightful artists immersed in a team-based environment, will generate bold, compelling theatrical works.

The Department of Design for Stage and Film at NYU/Tisch School of the Arts is a diverse community of theater and film artists. Our 3 year MFA (Graduate) program educates future generations of theater and film designers who, like our faculty and alumni before them, will have a profound impact on the arts through their design work.

Preparing students to understand and work in the professional theater. Our training provides a strong foundation in design and technology and the skills to compete in the professional market. We feel a graduate school needs to combine good training with professional opportunities. To that end, we make a point of pursuing student job placement.

Offering an MFA in Scenic Design, Costume Design and Costume Production, Penn State is an intensive three-year professional training program taught by working professionals. Hallmarks of our program include highly personalized studio training, exceptional individual mentorship, strong focus on contemporary digital design methods, ambitious realized design and production opportunities, and a strong emphasis on text analysis, and story-telling.  Our versatile approach to training results in outstanding job placement spanning the entire range of live entertainment. Penn State grads are working on and off Broadway, in regional and academic theatres, film and television, and in the commercial live entertainment industry. 

Our Vision is for TFT to serve as a premier interdisciplinary global professional school that develops outstanding humanistic storytellers, industry leaders and scholars whose diverse, innovative voices enlighten, engage, and inspire change for a better world.

The School of Fine Arts balances artistic and cultural legacies with the innovative approaches and techniques of contemporary art. In so doing, the School of Fine Arts serves students at the University of Connecticut in both their educational and their professional development. As a cornerstone of our teaching philosophy, the School of Fine Arts is particularly committed to creating an intersection between our educational activity and the various professional industries connected with our disciplines. This approach emphasizes various forms of experiential learning, and includes faculty and institutional engagement with the professional arts world outside the university.

The mission of the UC San Diego Department of Theatre and Dance is to train the next generation of artists and scholars who will shape and reimagine the way we interpret our world through the performing arts. We cultivate bold, innovative, highly skilled artists capable of thriving in a variety of professional contexts. We stress rigorous craft, critical thinking, and fearlessness

UMKC Theatre has been ranked by U.S. News and World Report among the top graduate theatre training programs in the country. For decades, our department has trained and developed some of the finest artisans in the industry today. From its humble beginnings in 1964 as an offshoot of the Speech department, UMKC Theatre has grown and expanded into a well-respected, world-renowned faculty that includes working theatre professionals and famed theatre artists teaching as visiting professors.

Master's of Fine Arts (MFA) degrees in costume design and technology; lighting design and technology; stage design; stage properties; sound design; stage management and make-up and wig design.

In the Department of Theatre at the University of Tennessee we are dedicated to creating rigorous educational programs that are fully integrated with the operations of a professional theatre serving our region. We believe that the best way for students to learn the art of theatre is to study in the studio and then to practice alongside first-rate professionals. This dual mission informs everything that we do.

UT Live Design is a master of fine arts degree program where you can explore your talent at a university with vast academic resources in the dynamic and culturally inclusive city of Austin. We believe that training artists in design for the theatre prepares them for careers as inventors and producers of work in all aspects of live theatrical performance and the related fields of film, television, themed attractions, concerts, events and exhibits – wherever the focus is on the live presence of a human story.

We strongly believe in cultivating artists and scholars of courage, character, and craft, and engaging our community in theatrical storytelling as a means of elevating and celebrating our individual and collective voices, promoting understanding, and nurturing compassion.