Theatre Arts
Entertain Us. Inform Us. Educate Us.
Design and build stage sets, create costumes and bring characters to life through movement, voice and music. Hone your ability to build connections with the audience—and, through Marquette’s broad liberal arts curriculum, learn to connect the performing arts to other disciplines.
Raise the curtain. Develop your craft starting in your first year through five main-stage productions, as well as dance concerts and studio productions. Performances range from the classics to contemporary pieces, including musicals, comedies, dramas and experimental theatre. At least one play per season centers on social justice.
Master the details. Choose from a wide selection of courses in the creative and technical aspects of stage and screen, including acting, directing for stage and camera, theatre history, scenery, lighting, dance and costume design.
Make professional connections. Work on our main stage with professional actors, directors and designers. Acting and performance classes average 12 to 14 students; technical design and management classes average 10. You can also collaborate or intern with companies from Milwaukee’s theatre district, just blocks away.
Sample internships
- Milwaukee Repertory Theater
- Chamber Theatre
- First Stage
- Renaissance Theatreworks
- Next Act
- Boulevard Ensemble
Recent employers
About 20 percent of our graduates pursue master of fine arts degrees in acting, directing and design. Nearly all those who seek employment get the job of their choice. Some places you’ll find recent graduates:
- Brown University
- Carnegie Mellon University
- Yale School of Drama
- American Players Theatre
- Broadway
- Cleveland Playhouse
- Fox Network
- Georgestreet Playhouse
- Hilbery Repertory Theater
- Milwaukee Repertory Theater
- New York’s Playwrights Horizon
- Oregon Shakespeare Festival
- The Second City
- Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Chicago
- 20th Century Fox
- Signed with Vanguard Management, New York; Paradigm Management, Los Angeles and New York; and Media Artists, Los Angeles
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