Our new theater management track will prepare you for a variety of careers, including producing, marketing and public relations, casting, development, and general management. It will also provide you with the chance to develop widely transferable management skills. Working in direct partnership with professionals at Syracuse Stage, you will gain firsthand knowledge of a professional theater company’s operations.

The acting and theater technology tracks in the B.S. program are more broadly focused than the B.F.A. programs. This allows you to tailor your course of studies to your individual interests and facilitates the pursuit of a minor in an area of your choice while still enabling you to take advantage of the department’s many resources--including opportunities to study abroad and our partnership with Syracuse Stage.

Many opportunities currently exist to study and practice the crafts of directing, playwriting, and community engagement theater, and we are working to expand these into full-fledged B.S. programs.

Please note that the theater management track is the only B.S. track that is currently open to direct application (which includes an interview). All other B.S. tracks are available only to those students who have been admitted to, and completed a portion of, one of our B.F.A. programs.

Students applying to the theater management track of the B.S. in drama should: (1) submit a resume showing prior theater and/or related work experience and (2) schedule an interview with a representative of the Department of Drama. Please be prepared to discuss your interests in theater management and your career goals both during college and after graduation. We will be interested in hearing about the qualities and skills that you have (or hope to develop) that you feel will allow you to succeed in a career in this area.