2022 College Report

- - - - 48 49 THEATRE AND DANCE Recent Accolades Texas State University’s Theatre program offers undergraduate B.F.A. degrees in Acting, Musical Theatre, Teacher Certification, Technical Production, Performance and Production, Film Production, and a general B.A. • #7 IN 2022 MOST POPULAR DRAMA & THEATRE • Hosts nationally recognized Texas State Black and degree. The department also offers a Masters of Fine Arts in Theatre with emphases in Directing and Design. The Latino Playwrights Celebration (19 years) ARTS SCHOOLS (collegefactual.com) department presents 9 fully produced shows each year as well as dozens of new play readings and class-related productions. Production facilities include the Patti Strickel Harrison Theatre, PSH Foundation Studio Theatre, the Jeremy Torres Lab Theatre, and the flexible stage of our former main stage. Our students and faculty continue to • M.F.A. Directing one of ten programs featured in • #9 THEATRE PROGRAM (Performing-Art- excel at regional, national, and international levels. American Theatre magazine Schools.com 2015) • Acting and Musical Theatre featured in New York Times • 62 NATIONAL FINALISTS AND 15 NATIONAL CHAMPIONS (Kennedy Center American RECENT ALUMNI: RECENT GUEST ARTISTS: • Teacher Certification graduates have NEARLY College Theatre Festival) (See also Distinguished Alumni) 100% JOB PLACEMENT Howell Binkley , Christopher • G.W. Bailey , MASH , Police Academy , The • Robust film program placing students behind-the Durang , Tony Walton , Shirley • New York Showcase (19 years) and Shakespeare Closer scenes on projects such as HBO’s Love and Death , Study Abroad (17 years) Knight , and Douglas Turner Ward Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon , Fear • Edwin Bates , Strange Loop on Broadway (Tony Award-winners), Andrew The Walking Dead , American Crime , Tree of Life , Lippa , Austin Pendleton , and Chris REGINA Flight of the Navigator , and Bull • Winners of the O’Neill National Critics Institute Award, • Matt Ford , Emmy winning Lighting D’Amboise (Tony nominees), Emmy TAYLOR the KC/ACTF Ken Ludwig Playwriting Scholarship, the Harold and Mimi Steinberg National Student Designer Award-winner Larry Grossman , Playwright • 53 Austin Critics Table Award nominations, Playwriting Award, the John Cauble Short Play Award, Regina Taylor (Playwright ) and • Demond Green , Drama Desk Nominee; WINNING 24 AWARDS the Judith Barlow Prize, and the Princess Grace Award The Upright Citizens Brigade Sister Act on Broadway • John Benjamin Hickey , Tony winning actor, The Big C • Ashley Hildrith , The Play that Goes Wrong , Off-Broadway • Terissa Kelton , Executive Producer Flight of the Navigator and Prophet , Co Executive Producer Harriet the Spy • Ben Mayne and Ben Toomer , Girl From The North Country , Broadway • Marissa Menezes , Costume and Scenic Designer, Mulan and Alice , Yaya Youth Theatre, China • Bobby Moreno , Drama Desk Nominee, Homeland • Edi Patterson , The Righteous Gemstones , Vice Principals , We Bare Bears • Julie White , Tony winning Actress; Transformers , Grace under Fire • Anna Uzele , Dear Edward on Apple TV+, Once on This Island and Six on Broadway