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Degrees Available: Bachelor of Arts

Showcase your work in exquisite performance venues and make the most of your artistic potential.

It’s time to take your love of theatre to the next level. Whether you shine on stage or work behind the scenes, you’ll develop your talents in a program that’s ranked among the nation’s best.

Collaborate with performers, designers and writers on thought-provoking productions. Work alongside students who are dedicated to their craft. And gain insights from faculty and guest artists with extensive academic and professional experience.

You’ll explore all aspects of theatre, including acting, directing, stagecraft, costume construction, design, lighting and dramatic literature. Your experiences — which include professional development opportunities in performance, playwriting, design and technology — will set the stage for an exciting and rewarding career.

Our theatre graduates have continued their studies at Brown, Columbia, Yale and NYU, and they’re pursuing their passion for theatre on Broadway and in film and television. So can you.

Theatre production: Men on Boats

In the news:

WU Theatre Department ranked best in Oregon

Featured Alumni

Theatre

Tess Falcone ’10

  • Ran the lighting production for Queen and other bands at a tribute to late Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins at London’s Wembley Stadium.
  • Has worked with many different artists, including St. Vincent, Weezer, and Jimmy Eat World.
  • Her path to Wembley began in the theater department at Willamette.
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Shana Cooper ’99

  • Directed more than two dozen plays nationwide
  • Formed an experimental theater company called New Theater House while studying at Yale
  • Involved with an off-Broadway company called The COOP
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E.M. Lewis ’94

  • Award winning playwright, teacher and librettist
  • Her work brings to light topics from climate change to gun ownership
  • Social responsibility through artistry is how she lives the motto, “Not unto ourselves alone are we born”
Willamette University

Theatre

Address
M. Lee Pelton Theatre
Willamette University
900 State Street
Salem Oregon 97301 U.S.A.
Phone
503-370-6222