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As a theatre performance major at UNI, you’ll get acting roles starting your first year here. Working closely with our industry-recognized faculty, you’ll be trained in a number of acting techniques and approaches, stage combat, improv, character creation, how to audition and much more.
From set design to costuming, makeup, sound and lighting – our theatre design and production majors learn every aspect of theatre production – building entire worlds from the ground up. Starting from day one, you’ll have the chance to put your skills to use by working on mainstage productions.
At Iowa, students receive a broad-based liberal arts education while pursuing their love of music theatre, with abundant opportunities to perform (we present 25+ productions of all kinds each year, especially new plays), and time to complete a second major.
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Master of Fine Arts in Stage Management. The primary goal of the stage manager is to enable all members of a production to reach their full potential as artists. Our program, with a strong focus on collaboration and the development of new works, balances the needs of all artists, including the stage manager as artist.
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Students may indicate their interest in majoring in Theatre any time after their admission to UNI. Formal indication of interest shall be made via the Declaration of Curriculum form. Declared stude...A student's freshman year shall be devoted primarily to course work in the UNIFI/General Education program and Foundations of Theatre (with lab), Stagecraft: Scenery/Lights orStagecraft: Costumes,...Students must maintain a minimum cumulative GPA of 2.0 in order to be eligible to participate in productions after practicum course work requirements are completed. Additional considerations, inclu...Transfer students entering UNI with an associate arts (A.A.) degree will be admitted to major status if their cumulative GPA is 2.50 or better and upon the condition that the requirements of COMM 1...Admission to a Theatre minor requires a Declaration of Curriculum form and consultation with the department office.
Communication-Theatre-Teaching Major
The Communication-Theatre-Teaching major requires a minimum of 121 total hours to graduate. This total includes UNIFI/General Education requirements, the Professional Education Requirements, and the following specified major requirements to complete the minimum of 121 hours. The teaching major in communication and theatre is offered jointly by the Department of Communication and Media and Department of Theatre. This major leads to endorsement #168: 5-12 Speech Communications/Theatre. Other co...
Theatre Major
The Theatre major requires a minimum of 120 total hours to graduate. This total includes UNIFI/General Education requirements*, the major requirements for one of the three Theatre major options as defined below, and university electives to total 120 hours.
The School of Music has as its primary mission to educate and prepare music students for productive lives as teachers, performers, composers, scholars, and citizens, while also inspiring students of all degree programs to develop an appreciation for the place of music in a culturally diverse world. View the School of Music's current Strategic Goals
Students interested in majoring in music or participating in music ensembles in Iowa will be excited to find exceptional faculty, innovative programs and state-of-the-art facilities at an affordable price and close to home here at UNI.
