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| "The high quality of training shows in the students' work which is of the caliber of a graduate program. In last year's senior showcase, I saw a personal uniqueness about each actor, and an individual approach to character which demonstrated great inner depth." |
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- Julie Tucker, NYC Casting Director
“The energy and skills Fordham students bring to their theatre classes are an inspiration to a teacher.”
- Marian Seldes, Actor and Fordham Theatre Adjunct Faculty
Fordham Theatre training embraces a company concept with all theatre students participating as members of the Fordham University Theatre Company. Each student has the opportunity to work on four faculty- and guest-directed mainstage productions and up to 15 student-directed and student-written studio theatre productions per year.
Theatre majors pursue a concentration of study in any of four areas: Performance, Playwriting, Directing,
or Design and Production. The theatre curriculum, which reflects the faculty’s belief that theatre is an inter-
disciplinary art, emphasizes the collaborative links between these disciplines. Freshmen begin the theatre
curriculum with Collaboration I and Collaboration II, a two-course sequence that instills in all students an
understanding that the primary skill in the theatre is the ability to work together.
The diversification of faculty and distinguished guest artists gives students exciting opportunities to work with leading theatre professionals and begin to focus on their particular interests and strengths.
Students receive a strong liberal arts foundation creating the breadth of knowledge that marks the educated person. The core curriculum, taught by Fordham’s distinguished arts and sciences faculty, includes courses in the arts, social sciences, literature, philosophy, theology, history, and modern and classical
languages. There are also opportunities to take academic electives and to have an academic minor.
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