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The College of Fine Arts is ADMITTED CLASS – FALL 2017 a community of nationally and internationally Design / Music Theater Popular Freshman Production recognized artists and 21% Courses 47% professionals organized into > Stagecraft + five schools: architecture, 47 > Directing I: Sources Movement I art, design, drama and 53 Directing > music, and its associated FRESHMEN 4% > Dramaturgy I: centers and programs. Approaches to Text > Studiocraft The College of Fine Arts enhances and integrates > Ballet I the excellence and distinction of its top-ranked Acting Dramaturgy schools with the strengths of the university to establish a position of international leadership 19% 9% in preparing students to engage successfully with local and international communities and The College of Fine in transforming the professions through critical Arts offers the inquiry and creative production. opportunity Uniquely positioned within an internationally ranked tier-one research university, the College of a concentrated Drama Admitted Student Averages of Fine Arts and its students truly meet at the conservatory setting intersection of the arts and technology every SAT-ERW* SAT-M* ACTE ACTM ACTC day. We educate brilliant artists, designers, inside a world- actors, singers, musicians, architects and 640-730 550-660 31 27 30 class university urban designers who, upon graduation, bring innovative solutions to their fields. *Middle 50% range environment.

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Acting Notable Faculty > Don Wadsworth, the option Design coordinator of acting and music theater, Costume has coached actors on Broadway, as Lighting well as Oscar-nominated actors. Scenic > Tomé Cousin, associate professor Sound 38 of dance, is a member of Lincoln Video & Media FACULTY* Center Directors Lab and has directed productions of Susan Stroman's Contact, Directing all over the world, most recently, in Korea.

Dramaturgy > Susan Tsu, Bessie F. Anathan professor of costume design, is an award- winning, internationally renowned Music Theater *Pittsburgh undergraduate research and teaching track faculty costume designer. She has designed theater, opera and television, including Production Technology & the award-winning hit musical Godspell Management and The Joy Luck Club. In 2016, she Stage and Production Management won the TDF/Irene Shariff Lifetime Technical Direction Achievement Award.

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Employed and Not Distinguished alumni and faculty populate the ranks The Matchmaker Freelance Reported of the international entertainment industries, working Thornton Wilder in every capacity including agencies, production Directed by Anthony McKay 86% 9% companies, management, design and performance: Oct. 5–14 +5 9 > Broadway > Broadway touring productions Loves Labor’s Won Written and directed by Scott Kaiser 44 > Cirque du Soleil Nov. 16–18, Nov. 28–Dec. 2 GRADUATES > Film, both major studio and independent * IN 2016 > Regional Theater, including Oregon Shakespeare Festival and Williamstown Theater Festival Music and lyrics by and Grad > The Scenic Route Book by and School > Television, both network and streaming Don McKellar 5% > William Morris Endeavor Directed and choreographed by *Percentages recorded as of December 2016 Marcia Milgrom-Dodge Feb. 22–Mar. 3 Alumni Accomplishments A Bright Room Called Day (2003) was nominated for a Tony Award , and Kevin Emrick (2007) was nominated as Tony Kushner for Best Leading Actor in a Musical for The Book of producer for Sweat by Lynn Nottage. Mormon. Recent work has included playing Hector Directed by Jed Allen Harris Stephen Schwartz (1968), won the 2015 Isabelle MacQueen in the upcoming filmMurder on the Orient Apr. 12–14, Apr. 24–28 Stevenson Tony Award. He is among the most successful Express, portraying Le Fou in Disney's live action composers in American music theater history, with titles Beauty and the Beast and he continues to give voice to including Godspell, Pippin and Wicked to his name. Godspell the iconic character of Olaf from . and Pippin were both in their nascent phases during Will Gossett (2015) and Ryan Tanker (2010) won Schwartz’s time at Carnegie Mellon. the 2016 Creative Arts Emmy Award for Best Lighting Numerous School of Drama alumni have played in the Design/Lighting Direction for a Variety Special for their cast of the musical phenomenon . Both Leslie work on Grease: Live! Odom Jr. (2003) and Renée Elise Goldsberry (1993) won John Wells (1979) has been the creative force behind for their turns as Aaron Burr and Angelica some of prime time’s biggest hit television series like Schuyler respectively. Rory O'Malley (2003) stepped in ER, The West Wing, Third Watch and Shameless. He’s for Jonathan Groff as King George III in the spring of 2016 won six prime-time Emmys and has been nominated and is now a member of the touring . numerous times. Mark Worthington (1991) has been the production John Shaffner (1976) and Joe Stewart (1977), have designer for American Horror Story for the past five done art direction and production design for Friends, seasons and was nominated for a 2016 Emmy Award for The Big Bang Theory and Two and a Half Men (for the Outstanding Production Design of a Narrative Program latter, they were recently nominated for an Emmy). for his work on AHS: Hotel. Worthington has been nominated for five Primetime Emmys for his work on AHS Four School of Drama alumni were nominated for and Ugly Betty. Tony Awards in 2017: Denée Benton (2014) and Josh Groban (1999-2000) were both nominated Michael Cohen’s (2009) Broadway Stage Management for their titular roles in the musical Natasha, Pierre credits include Amazing Grace and Chaplin. and the Great Comet of 1812, (1995) was nominated for his leading role in the revival of

OFFICE OF ADMISSION CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY DID YOU KNOW? 5000 FORBES AVENUE PITTSBURGH PA 15213-3890 T: 412.268.2082 F: 412.268.7838 Carnegie Mellon University alumni have Playground is a festival of student- E: [email protected] 1. won a total of 44 Tony Awards. 4. produced work. For one full week, without scheduled classes, students CarnegieMellonAdmission CM_Admission are invited to participate in this festival In 1917, Carnegie Mellon granted the carnegiemellonadmission 2. and take on new work, incorporating first undergraduate degree in drama in Carnegie Mellon Office of Admission innovation and risk-taking with an the United States. CMAdmission interdisciplinary approach. Performed over three days, it usually consists of www.cmu.edu/admission Drama students also go abroad! 50 different works, ranging from musicals, 3. Locations visited over the years include plays, dance performances, films, light Choose your program Australia, England, South Africa and shows, installations and murals. Change the world France.

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