Ohio University School of Theater
Join us this year in celebrating The College of Fine Arts 75th Anniversary!
The School of Theater will have several visiting artists on campus throughout the year with a selection of extrordinarily diverse events!
and in the spring an original collaboration with Vampire Cowboys
Thank you for your interest in one of the most highly regarded and longest standing theater schools in the country. Our faculty of esteemed theater professionals are dedicated to nurturing and your development and encouraging your future in the filed through intensive study, professional internships, high-level networking and placement. Our many illustrius alumni include Tony-award winning performers - Chuck Cooper; Piper Perabo; and major Hollywood scene designer - David Sackeroff. If you seek vital, challenging, and intensive theatrical training then open our front door to your future.
Please don't hesitate to call us at 740-593-4818, email theater@ohio.edu or fax 740-593-4817!
Students in the School of Theater become part of a community of artists, building links and liaisons in the field through their contact with faculty, guest artists, teachers, and your fellow classmates. Faculty will mentor and work with you individually, tailoring your talent and needs to quality benchmarks that will ensure your competitive entry into the profession.
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The School of Theater is situated within the College of Fine Arts and is therefore closely linked to the other arts. Moreover, beautiful, rural Athens offers you a retreat from big city life so that you can focus completely on your craft and artistry. Many of our students benefit from the idyllic surroundings of the campus, yet our professionally oriented faculty will also avail you the opportunity to intern professionally in major national and international theaters.
The 2011/2012School of Theater Season
Eurydice
by Sarah Ruhl
directed by Dennis Delaney
October 12-15 & 19-22, 2011
8:00pm
The brilliant musician Orpheus descends into the Underworld to retrieve his bride, Eurydice, in Sarah Ruhl’s strikingly theatrical and thoroughly contemporary retelling of this classic tale of love and loss.
The Elizabeth Evans Baker Theater, Kantner Hall
Diana of Dobson's
by Cicely Hamilton
directed by Jocelyn Wiebe
November 2-5 & 9-12, 2011
8:00pm
When Diana receives a small inheritance, she leaps at the opportunity to escape her dreary life—but has she found the true path to happiness? Cicely Hamilton’s romantic comedy of manners is a lost gem from Edwardian England now finding new life on the contemporary stage.
The Forum Theater, RTV Building
The Idiot
By Fyodor Dostoyevsky
adaptation by David Fishelson
directed by Jamie Lish
February 15-18 & 22-25, 2012
8:00pm
In this highly theatrical adaptation of Dostoyevsky’s classic novel, nineteenth century Russia meets twenty-first century America as a naïve prince struggles to find his way through a world torn between love and power, between virtue and corruption.
The Forum Theater, RTV Building
SPRING
Vampire Cowboys Project
May 9-12 & 16-19, 2012
8:00pm
Founded by alumni Qui Nguyen and Robert Ross Parker of the Ohio University School of Theater, Vampire Cowboys Theater Company creates wildly innovative performances filled with stage combat and influenced by comic books and action films—making them one of the hottest theater companies in New York. Nguyen and Parker return to create a new production for the School of Theater.
The Forum Theater, RTV Building
2012 Seabury Quinn, Jr., Playwrights’ Festival
Featured Performances May 23 - 26 & May 30 - June 2, 2012
Festival Readings May 30 – June 2, 2012
The Seabury Quinn, Jr., Playwrights’ festival celebrates the work of the playwright. Works in progress by student playwrights are directed, read and performed (often for the first time in public) and are evaluated by guest artists.