LIU/CWPost theater

stargurl93
Sun, 22 Jul 2012 22:14:46 +0000

@OddDad: I actually went to LIU CW Post for a year. I can give you some aspect on my experience but it has change a lot since I was there.

What made me like the program was that in the first two years everyone would take the same theater classes together (BFAs, BAs) and your schedule was mostly in theater M-F. As I recall my freshmen year from other students (Long story short I was in a PASS program where I was limited to taking certain courses) You had intro to drama, technical theater, basic acting, english 1 and a choice to chose one or two other core classes. For the BFA Acting program, she will only need to take 30 credits worth outside her major. That is a 1/4 of her degree. 3/4 of her degree will be related to theater.

The program has change where you can get a degree in Musical Theater and only the first years have the same classes together. Second years the only difference between BFA actors and BFA musical theater is voice classes which as BFA Acting major can take as an elective than a requirement.

After you complete your first year, you are consider a Post Theatre Company member. There are about 50 people from freshman year to senior year.

There are one musical production (but they trying to do one in the fall semester and another in the spring), five productions and three stage readings of new plays by up and coming playwrights or this year they had a play written by an alumni!

The training is based on practical aesthetics. In the first year of acting classes, we use training from A Practical Handbook for the Actor and Respect for Acting. Also, Maria Porter, Post Theatre Company, who has train with Tadashi Suzuki and Anne Bogart, heavily teachers the Suzuki Technique. I would suggest to your daughter to go to a info class on SITI website. It is a training that I can not describe on here or tell you in person. You have to experience it yourself to fully understand the specific of the training.

About transportation, there is a bus from campus that drops you off at the Hicksville Train Station. It takes about an hour to get to Penn Station and a half hour to get to Jamaica Ave (Queens) and transfer to Atlantic Avenue (Brooklyn) which is cheaper and faster because you can exit and get on the subway. Every train in that station takes you to Manhattan. There is also a MTA bus that goes into the campus but it does not run on the weekends. I would have to take a cab to get to campus.

Also, if your D doesn’t have a car, there is a bus that takes you to Wegman’s, a mall with target in it, and train station (same one I was referring to). Also, since I left there is a shuttle bus that takes you to path mark and wendys.

Also, I like that everything on campus was walkable so it was not a far away walk from rehearsals to my dorm. If you are debating whether or not you should get a car, it would probably be better to get to know someone and get transportation that way.

Any other questions that you have, I will be happy to answer.