Acting
Bachelor of Fine Arts
The Theatre School
Programs of Interest
0Prepare to act on stage or screen
The Theatre School’s four-year Acting major focuses on expanding your range of knowledge and expression of performance—providing you with skills and techniques to improve acting, movement, voice and speech abilities.
With hundreds of theatres in Chicago, you’ll have the opportunity to attend performances on a regular basis and take acting classes from distinguished and award-winning faculty members who bring together experience and expertise.
Our faculty has developed a successful and powerful curriculum that includes ideas from Stanislavski, Spolin, Grotowski, Suzuki, yoga, tai chi, mask work and more. We have a vibrant theatre community and encourage students to be active members of our productions.
Classes
Coursework
- Acting for the Camera
- Audition
- Improvisation and Performance
- Stage Combat
- Technique
- Voice and Speech
Do more with your degree
Career Options
Career
- Acting and performing
- Advertising
- Casting
- Directing
- Education
- Film and television production
- Lighting or set design
- Media critic work
- Play or screen writing