2024-2025 Undergraduate and Graduate Catalog
Theatre Arts
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Department Chair: Ezra LeBank
Department Office: Theatre Arts (TA), Room 221
Telephone: (562) 985‑7891
Faculty: Anthony Byrnes, Andrea Caban, Martha Carter, Adrian Centeno, Michelle Gibbs, Anne D’Zmura, Jeff Janisheski, Ezra LeBank, Emily MacDonald, Hugh O’Gorman
Undergraduate Advisor: Adriane Howze (562) 985-4042
Graduate Advisor: Josh Nathan (562) 985-4070
Administrative Coordinator: Katie Speer (562) 985-7891
Career Possibilities
Actor • Director • Stage Manager • Lighting Designer • Costume Designer • Scenic Designer • Technical Director • Teacher • Theatre Administrator • Theatre Manager • Director of Development • Box Office Manager • Managing Director • Artistic Director • Marketing Director • Playwright • Dramaturg • Dialect Coach • Choreographer • Intimacy Director • Fight Director • Stuntperson • Arts Technician • Supreme Court Justice
(Some of these, and other careers, require additional education or experience. For more information, see the Career Development Center website.)
Introduction
The Department of Theatre Arts offers a B.A. in Theatre Arts with three options: a versatile Theatre Arts B.A., and focused options in Technical Theatre: Scenic/Costume/Lighting Design and Performance: Acting. Each B.A. degree program offers exposure across a broad range of highly transferable skills in the dramatic arts supporting future employment in theatre, film and television, education, live entertainment, and events.
The Department of Theatre Arts offers graduate study leading to the Master of Fine Arts degrees. The candidate is urged to observe the general requirements stated in this Catalog, as well as the specific departmental requirements stated here and, more fully, in the Department Program Planners, available upon request from the department.
Students work in all areas in the student-run Theatre Threshold, and the professionally-modeled California Repertory Company. Department productions are attended by thousands of audience members annually from the university and Long Beach communities, and are frequently reviewed by local and regional press. Guest artist workshops are hosted in all areas of the dramatic arts, featuring industry professionals from the Los Angeles theatre, film and television industry.
CSULB is an accredited institutional member of the National Association of Schools of Theatre (NAST). The Theatre Arts Department is also a member in good standing with the Theatre Communications Group, the United States Institute of Theatre Technology, the University/Resident Theatre Association, and the International Theatre Institute of the United States.
Admission for the MFA in Theatre Arts and BFA in Acting programs are temporarily suspended.
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