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The Theatre Department’s mission is to provide undergraduate students with a comprehensive education in the practices and processes of creating theatre and live performance. Columbia offers a number of programs designed to suit your particular interests, including Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Fine Arts degrees as well as minors in Acting, Stage Combat, Theatre Directing, and Playwriting, and Devising for Collaborative Performance. The department actively promotes diversity, equity, and inclusion as vitally important to the making of theatre and the educational experiences of its students, and seeks to root out discrimination of all kinds in classes and productions.

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Undergraduate Programs

  • Acting (BA | BFA)

  • Comedy Writing and Performance (BA)

  • Musical Theatre (BA | BFA)

  • Theatre (BA)

  • Theatre Design and Technology (BA)

Graduate Degrees

  • Acting and Contemporary Performance Making (MA | MFA)

Minors

  • Acting (Minor)

  • Devising Collaborative Performance (Minor)

  • Playwriting (Minor)

  • Stage Combat (Minor)

  • Theatre Directing (Minor)

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