Drama at Transylvania is designed to give you opportunities to understand, appreciate, and do theater. We offer both a major and minor in drama through a variety of courses that develop your knowledge of theater production as well as theater literature, criticism, and theory. As a drama major, you will study character analysis, performance techniques, movement, voice, theater design, stagecraft, lighting, and costuming. You will also have the opportunity for hands-on experience in directing.

Transylvania University Theater, the production arm of the drama program, produces two to three faculty-directed plays each year such as A Midsummer Night's Dream, King Lear, The Miracle Worker, Into the Woods, and Rumors. It also presents student-directed, one-act plays throughout the year. Transy's theater offers an outlet to apply the skills you learn in the classroom, earning academic credit for participating in a theater production.

Some of the positions held by our recent drama graduates:

Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park
Interior designer
Facility director and technical coordinator, Mitchell Fine Arts Center, Transylvania University
Marketing and public relations adviser, Lexington Arts and Cultural Council
Network television actor
Technical director, Fort Campbell Army Post
Ticket manager, Stage One: The Louisville Children's Theater
Drama teachers in public schools
Professor, Hanover College
Volunteer coordinator, Lexington Children's Museum
Actress, Los Angeles
Director, Los Angeles
Assistant director, Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C.

Some of the graduate or professional schools our drama students have attended:

University of Kentucky, University of Louisville, University of North Carolina, Catholic University, University of Richmond Law School, University of California-Santa Barbara

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