Theatre Arts
For a student of theatre, New York City is the place to be!
Why Theatre Arts at Marymount Manhattan?
MMC is centrally located in Manhattan and offers classes that allow students to experience the richness of the city. We combine professional theatre education and training with the liberal arts, teaching our students how to create compelling, informed, imaginative, and innovative theatre. Our students are exposed to great theatre — on Broadway, Off-Broadway, along Theatre Row, and downtown in experimental theatres — and they take advantage of the best of New York City’s internship opportunities.
Pursue one of our BFA majors in Acting, Musical Theatre, Theatre Design and Technology, or Stage and Production Management, or choose one of our BA in Theatre Arts major concentrations in Directing, Theatre History and Performance Texts, Theatre and New Media, or Writing for the Stage. We also offer Minors in Arts for Communities, Arts Management, Drama Therapy, Music, and Music Industry.
For Application and Audition/Interview information, please go to our Prospective Students page.
Musical Theatre Summer Intensive 2024
Where better to study musical theatre than the home of Broadway?
Take part in the MMC Summer Academy’s Musical Theatre Intensive for rising high school juniors and seniors and hone your skills in the heart of New York City.
Priority Deadline is 02/18/2024
Commitment to Equity and Transformative Justice
The Theatre Arts Department is committed to creating a culture and curriculum that are ethical and equitable. Theatre Arts faculty and staff pledge to develop and implement recruitment strategies, curriculum, pedagogy, and theatre production practices that are anti-racist, anti-sexist, gender, body, ability, national origin, and LGBTQIA+ inclusive. They will also engage and collaborate with students to eradicate biased structures. This departmental work is grounded in a commitment to Transformative Justice.
Transformative Justice is a collection of methods designed to give communities—in our case, classroom, studio, production, and department communities—autonomy over social systems. Theatre Arts faculty implement these practices in Theatre Arts courses and productions as a way to build community. The hope is that these practices will help us to create new ways to listen, question, and respond to conflict/disagreement when it arises.
What’s next?
Marymount Manhattan is perfectly positioned to launch your career in the theatre, as it did for our 2015 Tony Award-winning alumna Annaleigh Ashford.
Our alumni go on to perform in nationally recognized stage productions, TV shows, films, and more. Check out some of our alumni credits below:
Broadway Productions
Dear Evan Hansen, Hamilton, Six Degrees of Separation, Sunday in the Park with George, Sylvia, You Can’t Take it With You, Spiderman, A Night with Janis Joplin, Big Fish, Kinky Boots, Peter and the Starcatcher, Bullets Over Broadway, Sister Act, Jekyll & Hyde, Bring It On, Next to Normal, Hair, The Lion King, Legally Blonde, Wicked, Avenue Q, Rent, and The Drowsy Chaperone.
Film and TV CREDITS
Mr. Robinson, Supergirl, Kevin at Work, Penny Dreadful, Masters of Sex, Orange is the New Black, Glee, The Big Bang Theory, So You Think You Can Dance, The Good Wife, and Saturday Night Live.
NYC Theatre Company Associations
Lincoln Center Theatre, The Public Theatre/Shakespeare in the Park, Astoria Performing Arts Center, Second Stage Theatre, New World Stages, The Vineyard Theatre, The New Group
Graduate Study
The Juilliard School, Yale School of Drama, Harvard University, Old Globe/University of San Diego, Brown University, New York University, and the University of California, San Diego, among others.
Meet Our Alumni