Mission

The BFA Acting program at UWM is a 130-credit program focused on uncovering the potential of the individual student, including the development of personal performance practice. The program builds on the objectives of the department’s core curriculum to develop within the student a deepened, strengthened, and professional level of competency in acting skills, and a sense of their own identity as a performing artist. Our students receive broad technical training in preparation for graduate studies or entry into the profession of theatre practice.

Comprehensive Artistry

To help students develop as complete artists, our program emphasizes an understanding of essential acting theories, principles of voice production, flexible speech techniques, physical communication, physical structures of character, principles of Dramatic Action and Storytelling, and personal artistic practice. Research specific to an actor’s work, objective and subjective/affective, is demonstrated a core principle to artistic development.

Students are guided through the process of self critique to gain the ability to prescribe solutions and/or new directions for artistic development, and gain an understanding of professional modes of behavior, preparation, and competency.