| Cls238:
For Directing check out: Carnegie Mellon, UMichigan and NYU. You can study directing at other top schools but there is no set directing major, rather it's theatre studies...look @ BU, SMU, Northwestern.
Especially at Carnegie Mellon, many of the directing students will go into film and television. The graduates of the undergrad directing program have a very high success rate, mostly because they are not tunnel visioned on directing for the stage and because the skills they learn are helpful in a variety of jobs within the Industry. Therefore, grads have gone on to become not only directors in theatre, film, and television, but also casting agents, talent agents, producers, and studio execs in NYC and LA.
Due to the nature of directing, I'm sure the skills learned at ANY of these programs will be conducive to these careers, for as a director you need to know acting, design, script analysis...and the list continues. I only mention Carnegie Mellon as I am the most familiar with it.
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