As a student in Meredith's theatre program, you will learn from and work with faculty who are professional actors, designers and directors. Our program provides a setting for technical skill development, creative exploration and artistic scholarship.

While earning a Bachelor of Arts in theatre, majors can add a concentration in musical theatre or earn K–12 licensure. A minor in theatre is also available.

Earning a theatre major will develop your critical and reflective thinking skills, as well as increase your understanding and appreciation of the arts.

Program highlights include:

• Performance Opportunities: Put your interests into action—on stage or off. Meredith typically presents a musical, theatre for youth production, a classical production and a contemporary play each academic year. In addition, several student-led productions are presented.
  
  
• Nationally known theatre professionals are regularly invited to campus to serve as guest performers, directors or lecturers. Recent visitors include Anne Bogart, co-founder and artistic director of the Saratoga International Theatre Institute, and Tony Award winner Beth Leavel, '77.
  
  
• Stillwater Theatre, formed in 2005, is Meredith's professional theatre company-in-residence. Stillwater Theatre produces one play per year on campus, in addition to those presented by Meredith Performs Theatre. Meredith students have the opportunity to audition for roles and also are able to serve in technical positions for Stillwater Theatre.
  
  
• Meredith participates each year in the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival, a national theatre program involving 18,000 students from colleges and universities nationwide.

Whether you choose theatre as a career or direct your future to an entirely different field, Meredith will prepare you for success with a solid background in the performing arts. Graduates of Meredith who were involved in theatre have gone on to graduate schools, to perform on Broadway, or to teach drama in public school systems.

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