Design for Theater and Entertainment Media is a three-year program offering advanced professional training in four artistic areas: scenic design, costume design, lighting design and sound design. The faculty include internationally recognized theater artists with many years of design experience in theater, opera and other dramatic forms. The diverse professional backgrounds, aesthetics and teaching approaches of the faculty allow for a wide-ranging, flexible program that can be customized to address the talents, needs and interests of each student. The program is highly selective and admits just a few students each year, permitting small classes and individualized attention not available in other professional training programs. While the development of specific design skills is important, the design faculty believe that a good overall design sense, heightened dramatic sensibilities and critical thinking are the essential qualities a designer must cultivate in order to be prepared for any kind of future creative challenge. The program's goal is to produce artists who know how to think creatively, how to conceptualize, and how to find new ways of designing for the theater. Students frequently work as assistants to faculty members on their professional projects. There is a strong emphasis on helping the student build a professional portfolio that reflects the designer's unique individual style and approach as an artist in the theater.

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