Mission Statement
APSU's Theatre & Dance fosters artists, scholars and professionals who positively impact our world. We provide a creative environment in which we educate and prepare students for the professional worlds of Theatre and Dance.
- Students progress through a rigorous training program that incorporates both practice and scholarship.
- We cultivate student’s creative, performance, and scholarly aptitudes through exposure to diverse practical and philosophical approaches to dance and theatre studies.
- We advance critical thought processes by stressing the theoretical, pedagogical, and historical aspects of theatre and dance studies.
- We nurture and inspire excellence in student achievement.
BFA Degree in Theatre / Dance
Acting/Directing Concentration
BA Degree in Theatre / Dance
Acting/Directing Concentration
Minors
Theatre
Dance
What Do Theatre and Dance Majors Do After Graduation?
- Professional Actor
- Adjunct Faculty
- Artistic Director
- Arts Administrator
- Arts Educator
- Arts Manager
- Ballet Instructor
- Community Dance Instructor
- Choreographer
- Dance Company Manager
- Dance Therapist
- Professional Dancer
- Marketing Manager
- Performance Artist
- Professional Performer
- Performing Arts Teacher
- Photographer
- Rehearsal Director
- Teacher
- Theatre Programmer
- Yoga Instructor
- Professional Theatrical Designer
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Austin Peay State University's Corey Finley, who graduated with a bachelor's degree in acting this spring, has landed a highly sought one-year acting internship at Actors Express in Atlanta.
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From Thursday, Nov. 21-Sunday, Nov. 24, APSU Department of Theatre and Dance and the Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts (CECA) will present "Five Savory Dishes" - a world premiere evening of one-act plays written Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright John Patrick Shanley.
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Ashley has directed such hits for Atlanta's Actor's Express as "Rent," "The Rocky Horror Show," "End of the Rainbow," "Six Degrees of Separation" and "Grey Gardens."
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