Admissions Requirements for Shakespeare & Performance
How to apply:
- Complete your application.
- Provide a personal statement about why you want to study at the graduate level.
- Send in your transcripts.
- Provide one letter of recommendation.
Next steps:
- Meet with our Operations Manager to review our program’s logistics and answer any questions you may have about the application process.
- Meet for a text workshop with one of our co-directors. This meeting will include exploring the text through performance and discussion and a conversation about the MFA year. You will discuss the philosophy and goals of the program. Please prepare 10 lines of memorized Shakespearean text and submit your headshot and resume ahead of time.
Application FAQs
Everyone will be considered for merit-based scholarships upon application. You also may be eligible for a stipend graduate fellowship. Additionally, there are on-campus work-study positions with the program and the wider campus.
There is no on-campus housing for graduate students. Most students are able to find affordable housing within walking distance of campus.
No, we are not a conservatory. We pride ourselves on being a collaborative, multidisciplinary program meant to prepare students as scholar-practitioners of early modern drama. All students will learn and train as both practitioners producing theatre and as scholars studying the texts and their history.