After SHSU: Grad School #2

2. Southern Methodist University

Description:
The Master of Fine Arts in Acting at SMU focuses on training the actor for
the professional world — giving the artist the tools needed to achieve creative excellence in a variety of dramatic literature and theatrical venues. Rather than asking you to master a way of working, the program helps you to master the ways by which you can meet the challenges of the work — which vary from text to text and production to production. We teach actors to discover their own organic approach to acting. So when you graduate, youʼll be armed with a rich array of techniques that will allow you to channel imagination and intelligence through the medium of body and voice.

Admissions:
Those applying for the M.F.A. in Acting must complete an interview and an audition. (Our graduate acting program admits a new class in the fall of odd-numbered years.) Applicants must audition with two contrasting, two-minute monologues, one from a contemporary play and one from a classical play.

Call-Back Auditions & Interviews for both the Design and Acting programs will be conducted February 20 - 21, 2009 on the SMU campus. Candidates will be notified following their initial audition and/or interview with additional information should they be selected to attend our call-back event.