820 East Genesee Street      Syracuse, NY 13210       (315)443-2669

WHY SU DRAMA?

We have a unique affiliation with Syracuse Stage, an outstanding Equity theater company that shares our theater complex as well as the knowledge and experience of its working professionals. Students may work on Stage productions as performers, understudies, production or design assistants, in directing, or on production crews. We also offer:

· The camaraderie of the department: a creative and collaborative community with supportive students, faculty, staff, and guest artists

 

· A dedicated faculty of working professionals who annually present four to five major productions with all-student casts, stage managers, and designers, and create opportunities for student experiential learning.

 

· The chance to see (and work on) between 120 and 160 artistically and educationally challenging productions in four years of study

 

· Spend a semester abroad through SU ABROAD

 

· A theater complex of four performance spaces and appropriately designed acting and dance classrooms and rehearsal spaces.

 

· Access to the Tepper Center for Careers in Theatre, which offers a program to facilitate the transition into "the real world," and the opportunity to participate in the Tepper Semester, our New York City immersion program

 

· An active alumni network, including the Syracuse University Drama Organization (SUDO)

· Aaron Sorkin Week: opportunity to meet industry professionals in LA

 

· Partial list of guest artists and workshops 2005-2009

· Chuck Cooper

· Lillias White

· Ping Chong

· Patdro Harris

· Taye Diggs (BFA ‘93) and Andrew Palermo

· Betty Buckley

· Paul Taylor Dance Company

· Doris Roberts

· Tony Walton

· Elizabeth Franz

· Mike Rego and Hank Unger (BFA ‘90) (producers of Urinetown and Wicked)

· Vanessa Williams (Musical Theatre ‘83)

· Martha Graham Dance company

· Alvin Ailey

· Paul Taylor

· Betty Buckley

· Jason Robert Brown

· Rita Gardner

· Jeff Shade

· Shakespeare & Co.

· Royal Shakespeare Company

· The cast of "Contact"

· The cast of "The Will Rogers Follies"

· Judith Fugate

· Ballet NY

· Ballet Hispanico

 

Opportunity for Federal Work-study or professional internships with Syracuse Stage shops and offices.

Collaborative productions such as West Side Story and A Christmas Carol with Syracuse Stage provide professional experience while studying.

Opportunity to produce, direct, design, perform and stage manage through student-run, funded organizations such as Black Box Players.

Opportunity to perform, assistant-direct, design and stage manage a variety of faculty-directed productions in a season.

ADMISSIONS

Opportunity to participate in workshops with Broadway Tony winners Lillias White and Chuck Cooper  during their residency at Syracuse Stage, performing in “Putting it Together.”