Theatre
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For the aspiring young theatre artist, the Theatre Department offers a conservatory-styled, intensive, pre-professional training program. While the major concentration is on acting, students are given the opportunity to study technical theatre and theatre management. The Theatre Department training prepares students to enter a professional acting career, college, university or conservatory, providing students with many career choices. Indeed, graduates are found continuing their postsecondary education at New York University’s Tisch School for the Arts, Columbia University, Cincinnati School of Music, Carnegie Mellon, Harvard, the University of California Berkeley, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, Long Beach, and San Diego, Syracuse University, State University of New York Purchase, CalArts, Howard University, Stanford University, University of Southern California, the London Academy of Dramatic Arts, Minnesota School of the Arts, North Carolina School of the Arts, University of the Arts, Interlochen Center for the Arts, and Juilliard, to name a few. The Theatre Department has a sequential theatre arts curriculum that incorporates beginning to advanced techniques in acting, voice, movement, stagecraft, and history/literature/criticism. The curriculum requires a high level of commitment from students who train three hours each day, with after school rehearsals for the season productions. The program emphasizes individual growth and personal discovery as well as an ensemble approach to acting. The faculty consists of working professional artists who share their expertise, experiences and passion for the art of theatre. The four-year scope and sequence course of study provides a multi-dimensional experience that captures the breath and depth of theatre as an art form and exposes students to historical, contemporary, social, multicultural, and cutting-edge concepts in theatre. LACHSA theatre students graduate not only as trained actors with artistic integrity and shared standards of excellence, but critical thinkers, arts leaders and advocates for the theatre arts. COURSE OF STUDY Act One: The First Year
(This is a 5-day curriculum, with no Friday Elective) Act Two: The Second Year
Act Three: The Third Year
Final Act: The Fourth Year
Theatre Department Friday Electives (Not available to 1st Years) Advanced Stagecraft: Costume/Makeup/Set/ Lighting Directing Workshop Comedy Improvisation Introduction to Musical Theatre Stage Combat Stage Management Advanced Physical Theatre |
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