What You’ll Learn
In this intensive theatre program, you’ll explore the making of theatre and build skills in creativity, communication, and collaboration.
Workshops in theatre-making subdisciplines (including acting, directing, and design)
Devising and creating performance for original and scripted works
Ensemble practice and performance
Rehearsal time
Hands-on mentorship from our distinguished faculty and guest artists
Interdisciplinary collaborations with young artists in the music and dance programs
Extraordinary Facilities
108,000 boldly designed square feet of creative freedom.
Sharon Martin Hall
The Sharon Martin Hall is a flexible, state-of-the-art 400-seat proscenium theatre built with the ability to accommodate a wide variety of performances. Multiple stage and seating configurations allow for an array of stagings and audience sizes. Acoustics can be adjusted to deaden the space for amplified sound — or liven it for acoustic and orchestral performances.
Hylbert Family Studio Theatre
The 3,600-square-foot Hylbert Family Studio Theatre (formerly the Black Box Theatre) seats an intimate audience of up to 150.
Theatre Faculty Directors
Artistic director at Available Light Theatre, professor
Theatre Director
Guest Artists and Ensembles
Learn from and create alongside award-winning, nationally known artists, recognized for their collaborative and inventive new approaches to the performing arts.
Available Light is Ohio’s hippest and hottest presenter of new and original theatrical productions. AVLT is renowned by audiences and critics alike for bold creations by local artists and regional premieres of important new work by playwrights from around the globe.
One of America’s most adventurous string quartets, at the heart of ETHEL is a collaborative ethos – a quest for a common creative expression that is forged in the celebration of community. In addition to premiering 21st-century works by a broad range of groundbreaking composers, the quartet creates and tours rich, often multimedia, productions in which community engagement is a key element.
A GRAMMY® Award-winning Chicago-based percussion quartet and GRAMMY®-nominated composer collective, Third Coast Percussion creates exciting and unexpected performances that constantly redefine the classical music experience.
