MFA Design Virtual Open House – Dec. 15 @ 12pm

We will present the services, look behind the scenes on current productions, and host a dialogue with present college students, alumni and college about this system.

The CMU School of Drama’s Design space consists of 5 MFA packages: Costume Design, Lighting Design, Scenic Design, Sound Design, and Video & Media Design. Each program is a three-year intensive course of examine exposing college students to the freshest instruments and strategies for designing theater and dwell occasions. Graduate college students take part absolutely within the formidable School of Drama manufacturing season throughout three theaters and non-traditional theater areas. All CMU productions are pupil designed and produced, with shut college and employees assist. Graduate college students are concerned in no less than one manufacturing per semester, which vary from one-act performs to full-scale main-stage productions and devised or experimental works.

All MFA college students obtain tuition scholarships. There are additionally quite a few alternatives for pupil employment inside the School of Drama. MFA college students may additionally take part within the Future Faculty program, the place they’ll train a course of their design, mentored by Drama college and the Eberly Center for Teaching Excellence. The faculty additionally produces two highly regarded Graduating Student Expositions in New York and Los Angeles, the place graduating MFA college students community with alumni and trade professionals. We are dedicated to our college students’ future success and are an ongoing useful resource as they advance by way of their careers.

Carnegie Mellon is a world-class analysis college, with distinctive packages throughout the Arts & Sciences, and MFA college students can benefit from a wealth of electives, innovative applied sciences, and examine with main college each inside the School of Drama and throughout the college. The third yr of this system is devoted to the creation of a student-defined thesis mission, the place college students synthesize their distinctive views by bringing in college, expertise and methodologies from throughout campus.

The program goals to encourage college students to create signature work of their chosen self-discipline and to have fun distinctive voices from numerous cultures. The faculty additionally fosters curiosity concerning the fusion between different artwork kinds and progressive theater observe, together with exploring the storytelling and leisure potential of recent applied sciences.

Graduates depart with a variety of expertise and our alumni work throughout many efficiency and leisure disciplines, together with theater, movie, tv, dance, opera, recreation design, prolonged actuality, immersive expertise design, live performance design and dwell occasions.

The program is accepting functions with a most popular deadline of January 6, 2024. Applications after that time are thought of till positions are stuffed. Interested college students are inspired to contact: Sarah Shechtman— sshechtm@andrew.cmu.edu