Theater

If you are looking for a small, rigorous, production-oriented theater program, explore the theater major at Union. Here you’ll find conservatory-trained and professionally active faculty members who teach a worldview of theater by presenting work from across genres and cultures.

Courses are offered through the Department of Theater and Dance, based in the Yulman Theater, a modern complex with two performance spaces, design studio, and state-of-the-art scenic and costume shops. A spacious dance pavilion is connected to the theater.

At Union, you will explore what it means to be an artist through courses that encompass theater literature and history, technical production, and performance skills. Working in a creative and close-knit learning environment, you will encounter opportunities that challenge your imagination.

Other learning opportunities

Amid a robust calendar of theater and dance offerings, major campus productions have included Clifford Odets’ Waiting for Lefty, J.M Barrie’s Peter Pan, Brian Friel’s Dancing at Lughnasa, Sara Ruhl’s In the Next Room and Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest. Many students are involved in Mountebanks, a drama club founded in 1912, considered the nation’s oldest student-run theater group.

Careers after Union

In addition to pursuing careers in the field after graduation, Union theater majors have gone on to study at premiere theater and film schools and have secured production jobs in television or film.

Here's a look at what some of our alumni have been doing since graduating:

• Film and theater actor
• Assistant director/stage manager, Tri-County Performing Arts Center/Village Productions
• Hollywood director and writer
• NYC casting agent
• Costumer, regional theaters nationwide
• Composer, lyricist and librettist, New York City and other theaters
• Curatorial intern, Costume Institute, the Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Paralegal/consultant, Alliance Bernstein
• Analyst, Goldman Sachs