The theater department is home to an incredibly vibrant community of people with diverse talents in the performing arts. This minor is a great way to enrich your liberal arts experience and develop creative thinking and communications skills, while building a foundation in the areas of theater study and production.
In the Minor in Theater program, you’ll explore the fundamentals of acting, directing, playwriting, design and theater history, and have the flexibility to shape the program to reflect your interests.
Our affiliations with local venues offer a unique opportunity to work with professional directors and actors in collaborative workshops and to stage performances. You also can earn credit and gain hands-on experience working on a one of the many Theater for the Community productions that are staged throughout the year.
A Letter from Abbey Copeland
Quinnipiac Theater is the exciting home to new musicals, world-premiere student-written and student-directed plays, theater for the community and so much more!
We offer an exciting theater major and a minor that explore all areas of theater production, performance and design. We’ve developed the program with enough flexibility that you can easily double major in theater and just about any other area of study at the university.
We also have many on and off-stage opportunities including faculty and student-directed productions, a student theater organization, an improv troupe, theater workshops, musical theater and new play development. These opportunities are open to all Quinnipiac students, regardless of major.
You will work with guest artists from New York, New Haven, and around the world to develop new plays and musicals, as well as imaginative interpretations of the classics. Be a part of a world premiere!
Quinnipiac Theater also works in partnership with individuals and organizations in using the power of theater within the community. Projects in recent years have included the musical Rage and the As We Emerge project, which focused on gun violence and stories of those recently incarcerated, respectively.
This program is highly individualized and you will be sure to find a path that’s right for you.
Are you a prospective student? Please contact me to discuss all the opportunities Quinnipiac Theater has to offer.
Students select courses from an array of offerings in acting, directing, playwriting, design, stagecraft, theater administration and theater history. Students also may earn theater practicum credit by working on the Main Stage productions (18 credits).
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| Theater Minor Required Courses | ||
| DR 140 | Stagecraft | 3 |
| or DR 257 | Design for the Theater | |
| DR 160 | Acting I | 3 |
| DR 230 | Directing I | 3 |
| or DR 350 | Playwriting: The Ten-Minute Play | |
| or DR 391 | Playwriting: The Full-Length Play | |
| Take one of the following courses: | ||
| DR 270 | World Theater History and Dramatic Literature I | 3 |
| DR 275 | World Theater History and Dramatic Literature II | 3 |
| DR 282 | Landscapes and Lenses | 3 |
| DR 375 | History and Dramatic Literature of the Contemporary Theater | 3 |
| Electives | ||
| Select any DR course | 3 | |
| Select any 200-400 level DR course | 3 | |
| Total Credits | 18 | |
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