Northwestern questions

MomCares
Thu, 25 Oct 2012 10:30:16 +0000

For what it’s worth, I wouldn’t describe our D or Northwestern as “rah-rah” or “pre-business”, and I wouldn’t describe the NU theatre environment as fundamentally “competitive”. :)

It is true that Northwestern has a deep enough pool of talent that even extremely talented and well trained kids won’t land leads in every show, and most kids who hope to work professionally realize this is just as it should be. But it’s also true that with over 60 shows on campus every year there’s plenty of opportunity for every theatre kid to stay constantly creatively involved in some aspect of production. And in D’s experience the atmosphere is highly collaborative and supportive, and she has been non-stop engaged from the day she set foot on campus.

From what I’ve seen NU’s Theatre students run the gambit from extremely bohemian to more Preppy, but again in my experience their population mirrors the professional theatre world.

I havent’t spent much time at Brown, though, so the above adjectives might be appropriate for the purpose of comparison. I just wanted to say they aren’t how I would describe NU.