Does undergrad school matter for grad school admission?

TheRealKEVP
Thu, 04 Jul 2013 09:09:49 +0000

In Directing particularly, but I would assume also in Acting, it isn’t normal to go right on to graduate school after undergrad. Most folks who are applying for grad school in theatre are folks who have gotten some “real world” theatre experience. This is I think what you need to be focusing on instead of which undergraduate school you went to.

I went to a not-very-presitigious undergraduate school, but what is impressing grad schools are the projects I directed as an undergrad, and then (what was very important) the fact that I kept directing plays even after I graduated. And I have been careful to direct a lot of “serious” plays (Shakespeare, Tennessee Williams, Harold Pinter, etc) so that folks can see I have a serious interest in theatre.