Theater opportunities if not doing a BFA (UCLA, USC etc)

CHO2023
Thu, 06 Jun 2024 15:28:59 +0000

Not 100% yet, but it looks like my student in the Guthrie BFA program is going to manage – or come really close – to a double major in American Studies and has a classmate who is on track for one as well in another Humanities subject. But like @fiftyfifty1 said, both of them came in with a ton of AP credits, and my kid is taking a summer class. One thing that helps at University of Minnesota is a lot asynchronous online classes are still available, making it easier to work around a busy theater schedule. Also, Minnesota does offer a robust non-audition theater BA that is more flexible schedule-wise than the BFA, making a double major a lot more feasible, and the BA students have their own slate of productions where BFAs aren’t competing for roles. The two programs kind of operate side by side (and we found this is pretty rare). Skidmore and Vassar in NY and Wesleyan University in CT are three good East Coast options where you can do a lot of theater without doing a BFA. Although a reach, I concur that Northwestern is also a good option, largely because they have a TON of theater clubs that produce really terrific work and cast theater and non-theater majors alike. Some of the schools on our list where we found opportunities are limited in the way that concern you were Boston University, Syracuse, DePaul and Ithaca. Michigan is also like this but, like Northwestern, has some theater clubs that put on some super productions, with auditions open to all.