What kinds of intersections are there between the Theatre and Performance Studies MA and PhDs and the MFAs in playwriting, acting and directing?

When you are accepted to the A.M./Ph.D. Program you become part of our Consortium with Trinity Repertory and the MFA in Playwriting at Brown. The Consortium starts with a bang every year.

For a week before classes start in your first year you will join in what we affectionately call the Consortium “boot camp” – where all of the entering MFAs in Acting, Directing and Playwriting, join with the entering PhD students in Theatre and Performance Studies for a week of introductory explorations in the form of workshops and discussion sessions. This ‘camp” takes place at Trinity Repertory Theatre in the heart of Providence, so it is an excellent introduction to the city as well as to fellow students across disciplinary boundaries. After the first week, opportunities for interaction arise in the form of classes such as “Collaborations” (taught in the past by Paula Vogel and Oskar Eustis or more recently by Bonnie Metzgar and Curt Columbus).

Collaboration also takes the form of involvement in ... more.

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