Overview

At Calvary, we not only want to teach you how to tell a great story dramatically, we want to involve you in telling a great story with your life! 

A great story has a character at its center who wants something so badly, he overcomes great obstacles to get it. Sound familiar? Sound like the story of Jesus through the ages? Sound like your story?

The Calvary Theatre Arts program revolves around telling the Story of God in ways that will engage the culture with a fresh and vibrant perspective! Our mission is to equip students by building academic, performance-related, technical, and spiritual foundations in the following areas:

  • Directing or assisting in directing church theatrical programs.
  • Overseeing performance, technical, and administrative aspects of a theatre ministry.
  • Teaching and directing theatre productions.
  • Developing skilled and disciplined actors who respect their art and their craft and who will be ready to further their careers through graduate school training and/or professional acting.

By the time you leave Calvary, you’ll be able to teach others how to tell a great story, and you’ll have developed into a skilled and disciplined actor who respects their art and their craft. You’ll be ready to further your career through graduate school training or professional acting. You’ll come away knowing that to be called to tell the best of all stories is one of the most compelling of all callings.

Quick Facts

8:1

Student-Faculty Ratio

90%

Post Graduate Employment

Minor

Degrees

Programs Offered

Theatre Arts Minor

Minor-Specific Courses:
  • Acting I & II
  • Theatre Practicum
  • Directing
  • Theatre Arts Capstone
Theatre Arts Electives (Choose 8 hrs):
  • Voice & Diction in Public Speaking
  • Theatre History & Dramatic Literature
  • Set Design & Construction
  • Theatrical Make-up
  • Stage Movement
  • Improvisation for the Theatre
  • Stage Management
  • Theatrical Lighting
  • Costuming
  • Advanced Directing
  • Drama Team – Reflection

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Theatre Arts Program Objectives

The Theatre Art student:

  • Embraces the core principle that theatre is service; to fellow actors, to the working text, to the audience, and first and foremost, to the Audience of One.
  • Demonstrates the foundational skills necessary to critically analyze a piece of dramatic literature for its quality and theme while comparing it with the knowledge of God’s Word and His character.
  • Is trained to work as an ensemble in an atmosphere that facilitates authentic, honest relationships with God and man.
  • Demonstrates his function as a believer-artist by impacting the culture and reclaiming the art form.
  • Inhabits this mission field and ministers to and through it with passion and integrity.
  • Applies the techniques learned as a technician and practitioner to their work as a theatre artist.
  • Recognizes the Story of God in the stories of history, myth, oral tradition, and literature, bringing it to life in new and creative ways, and sharing His story with an ever-thirsty world in increasingly compelling ways.
Theatre Minor Requirements
  • Before graduating, a Theatre Arts minor must complete the Program Requirements spreadsheet for minors. These are available upon request from the Department Chair.
Career Paths
  • Actor
  • Producer
  • Playwright
  • Screenwriter
  • Choreographer
  • Dancer
  • Stage Management
  • Directing
  • Theatre Management and Budgeting
  • Technical Theatre
  • Set and Stage Design
  • Events Coordinator
  • Drama or Theatre Teacher
  • College Faculty
  • Theatre Librarian
  • Marketing Coordinator
  • Community Arts
  • Coordinator

Meet the Theatre Department Faculty

Brittany Hill, M.S.

Interim Department Chair of Theatre Arts, Adjunct Faculty, Music and Theatre Arts

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Take the Next Step

Find where God is calling you to serve in the church and in the world. Contact us for more information or to enroll today.

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