It’s love. Not a lark. SCHOOL OF DRAMA HIGH SCHOOL UNDERGRADUATE TALENT IS A Ranked among the You’ll learn from an STARTING POINT. best drama schools in outstanding faculty TRAINING AND the world, ours is an as well as acclaimed CONCENTRATIONS immersive experience guest artists. And, HARD WORK that prepares talented you’ll perform – TRANSFORM Acting young artists for constantly. You’ll TALENT. successful careers on become a technically Directing stage and online and in skilled, creatively film and television. inspired artist, ready to turn passion SPECIFIC TRAINING into a successful professional career. Accents and Dialects Acting Alexander Technique Audition Techniques Combat, Armed & Unarmed Dance (Ballroom, Modern, Tap and Jazz) Directing Film Study Improvisation Mask Meisner Technique Movement On-Camera Physical Comedy Shakespeare Text Singing/Musical Theatre Stanislavski Technique Voice & Speech “While we work on their acting, body, and voice, we rely on our liberal arts division to provide a backbone of theatrical knowledge and history to supplement our work.” Quin Gordon – Faculty, School of Drama ACTING DEMANDS A CONSERVATORY A COMPREHENSIVE EDUCATING THE AN EDUCATION EXPERIENCE CURRICULUM WHOLE ARTIST OF BOTH MIND AND BODY. The School of Drama Along with required Our comprehensive provides rigorous classes in voice, liberal arts college conservatory training, movement and curriculum and high where you’ll focus acting, you’ll train in school academic daily on honing masks, dialects, stage program provide a your craft. Through combat, physical broad education, intensive production comedy, singing, producing well-rounded work, coupled with musical theatre, dance artists who think challenging courses, and improvisation. critically, creatively you’ll learn the classical You’ll continue to and collaboratively. values of acting while develop these highly developing your marketable skills unique creative talent. throughout your time at UNCSA. “I expected to be able to immerse myself in acting at UNCSA – and I have. What surprised me was the depth A CAMPUS A COMMUNITY ARTISTIC of the professional experience I’ve CULTURE UNLIKE OF ARTISTS COLLABORATION ANY IN THE gained. I’ve been in front of the camera COUNTRY The University of Working in an North Carolina interdisciplinary in student films, in front of audiences School of the Arts environment of on stage, and behind the scenes with is composed of five dancers, filmmakers, conservatories – musicians, designers Design & Production. You just don’t get Drama, Design & and technicians, those opportunities at other schools!” Production, Dance, you’ll learn to Filmmaking, and Music. effectively collaborate As a result, you’ll find as a professional. Margaret Gayford – Student, Drama artistic passion and Drama students work inspiration all around regularly with Design you. You will learn by & Production students, doing. And every day, and filled more than your fellow artists will 80 roles in student help bring out your films over the past very best. two years. PERFORMING At the School of The Hollywood Reporter ranks Drama, productions TAKES CENTER UNCSA #5 for best undergraduate are our most important STAGE drama schools in the world practicums. You’ll continually perform in both small workshops and major productions, receiving broad experience in works across the classical and contemporary repertory. PROFESSIONAL KEYS TO THE FACILITIES KINGDOM Performance Place is This innovative the primary training program is an facility for the School opportunity for of Drama, housing a fourth-year actors 380-seat proscenium and directors to thrust theatre, 100- stretch their and 200-seat arena entrepreneurial wings theatres, and a black by presenting their box theatre. The school independent work also offers a drama alongside the school’s gym and movement major productions. studio. The Stevens Center, a 1,380-seat, magnificently restored neoclassical theatre located in downtown Winston-Salem, serves as a major performance venue for musical theatre productions. THEY’VE BEEN Our faculty is comprised VISITING ARTISTS THERE…AND of professional artists THEY’LL HELP YOU who bring years of Notable guest firsthand industry DO THAT. artists and industry experience – having professionals from the worked and performed worlds of theatre, film everywhere from and television often Broadway stages visit our campus to to feature films and advise and work with television. You’ll have our students. A recent the opportunity to sampling of eminent work one-on-one with guests include: these exceptional mentors, as well as ALUMNI (Master Classes) with professional Dane DeHaan guest artists, including Peter Hedges award-winning Joe Mantello UNCSA alumni. Mary-Louise Parker Missi Pyle Anna Wood “You don’t have to go to New York DIRECTORS or LA to train with the best. José Aranda Jesse Berger Our world-class faculty has made Laura Braza Timothy Douglas a conscious choice to be in Winston- Dan Jenkins Salem because they are committed to Gus Kaikkonen John Langs* our students and to this style Terrence Mann* of teaching. They will work with you Kent Stephens Gaye Taylor Upchurch* closely to develop your skills and Nicole Watson provide opportunities for you CASTING DIRECTORS to stretch them.” James Calleri Tiffany Little Canfield* Alison Estrin Carl Forsman – Faculty, School of Drama Alan Filderman Stephanie Klapper Bob Mason Mark Saks Merri Sugarman AGENTS Samantha Chalk (Gersh) Richard Fisher (Abrams) Nancy Harden (Harden/Curtis) Chris Highland (UTA) Danielle Ippolito (Talentworks) Mark Redanty (BRS/Gage) Mark Schlegel (Cornerstone) * alumnus/alumna OUR ALUMNI INCLUDE: DYLAN ARNOLD JOE MANTELLO ALLAN K. WASHINGTON When We Rise (ABC miniseries) Tony and Obie Award-winning Broadway debut in Director; Emmy-nominated The Spongebob Musical ERICH BERGEN Actor. Broadway productions “Bob Gaudio” in Jersey Boys of Wicked, The Humans, MEGAN WEST (film and national tour), Take Me Out and Assassins How to Get Away with Madam Secretary (CBS) Murder (ABC) YOU’LL BE READY SENIOR MARQUEE MARY-LOUISE PARKER TO KICK THE SHOWCASE SUCCESS ANNA CAMP Golden Globe, Emmy and ANNA WOOD DOOR OPEN. Pitch Perfect, Good Girls Tony Award-winning actress; The Good Wife, In the spring, Professionals in the Revolt, The Help Fried Green Tomatoes, Red, Madam Secretary graduating seniors fields of theatre, Weeds (Showtime), and Reckless (CBS), visit Los Angeles and film and television DANE DEHAAN Angels in America (HBO) Mad Men (AMC), New York to present a recognize and respect The Amazing Spider-Man 2, The Following (Fox) showcase for agents, the rigorous and Valerian and the City of a CHRIS PARNELL casting directors, and comprehensive training Thousand Planets Saturday Night Live and producers from all of UNCSA School of 30 Rock (NBC) branches of theatre, Drama students. film, and television. Our graduates enter GUS HALPER In the past two years, the profession in a Sundance debut in Goat MISSI PYLE our showcase has wide variety of roles (opposite Nick Jonas and The Artist, Gone Girl, resulted in more than on- and off-Broadway, James Franco) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 30 actors signing with in regional theatres, top agents and many television and film. LUCAS HEDGES others securing their Academy Award nominee for J.T. ROGERS first jobs right out Manchester By the Sea, Three Tony and Obie Award-winning of school. Billboards Outside Ebbing, playwright of Oslo, also Blood Missouri (opposite Frances and Gifts, The Overwhelming, McDormand and Woody and Madagascar Harrelson) and Lady Bird (opposite Laurie Metcalf and Tracy Letts) ELIZABETH LAIL Once Upon a Time (ABC), Dead of Summer (Freeform) TYLER LEA Broadway’s Tony Award- winning The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time JONATHAN MAJORS “The day I graduate I’ll be ready to show When We Rise (ABC Miniseries), Hostiles (opposite Christian what I’ve got…not only to perform the work Bale and Rosamund Pike) of others, but to create my own work. I have a ANGUS MACLACHLAN unique voice, and I’m ready to tell my story.” Screenwriter of Junebug, Stone, and screenwriter/ Carl Bryant – Student, Drama director of Goodbye to All That starring Paul Schneider and Anna Camp ABOUT UNCSA STUDENTS 263 High school 907 Undergraduate 133 Graduate FACULTY 141 Full-time 76 Visiting/adjunct WINSTON-SALEM: AFFORDABLE GREAT RETURNS + Numerous guest artists A FOCUS ON QUALITY THE ARTS Money Magazine RATIO UNCSA offers a reported that recent 9 to 1 Student to faculty Known as the City of wealth of opportunities UNCSA graduates Arts and Innovation, at an unmatched value. earn approximately FACILITIES Winston-Salem is As one of the 17 22 percent more 11 Performance and a flourishing arts campuses of the than their counterparts screening venues community – and the University of North at other schools with ideal conservatory Carolina, our tuition a similar focus on PERFORMANCES location. Free from is a fraction of that of the arts. 300+ Public performances the high cost of living private arts schools. and screenings annually and stresses of a large metropolitan center, our artists are able to focus and immerse in their art. In a city like New York, you may see a lot of work. At UNCSA, we’re creating it. VISIT UNCSA APPLY & AUDITION To appreciate the Because we are Learn more UNCSA conservatory an arts conservatory, about audition experience and we conduct schedules and the our unique artist in-person auditions application process at: community, you need and interviews with uncsa.edu/apply to see them firsthand. all of our applicants. or call: (336) 770-3290. Get started by visiting our website: uncsa.edu. Audition Locations Then schedule your On campus, visit to campus. Winston-Salem, N.C.; New York, N.Y.; Chicago, Ill.; Los Angeles, Calif. Apply | Audition | Visit uncsa.edu.