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DRAMAA two-year Associate of Arts degree program60 credit hours required to graduate Search the College web page for general information. Click here for the Mission and Goals Statement of the Theatre Department. Click here to learn more about our Brendan C. Quigley Technical Theatre Internship. Advisors for Theatre majors: ABOUT OUR PROGRAMThe Theatre Department at Collin College strives to introduce students to the aesthetic and analytical elements of theatrical productions. It offers studies in the principles and practices of acting for stage and screen, stagecraft, costuming design and construction, theatre marketing, technical theater production and stage management.The labs provide students with "hands-on" experience through performances, as well as shop and crew duties. Our studies include contemporary theories and classical aspects of theatrical studios. The Theatre Department offers a full curriculum of theatre study including work in beginning and advanced acting, voice and diction, stage and lighting design, costume design and stage makeup, theatre history and dramatic literature, and specialty courses in circus skills, stunt work, musical theatre, stage combat, stage management and acting for the camera. Students and community members interested in theatre performance are encouraged to audition for the plays performed each year. Auditions are announced both on and off campus. Collin Theatre's faculty have experience in professional stage and motion picture work, including such projects as the Broadway musicals AIDA, WICKED and Sarafina!; rock tours with Michael Jackson, Aerosmith, Jimmy Buffett, Van Halen, Michael W. Smith and Hank Williams, Jr.; films such as The Alamo, Boys Don't Cry, Young Guns, American Outlaws, JFK, Cry-Baby, Broadcast News, Carried Away, Flesh and Bone, The Stars Fell on Henrietta, Selena, Walking Tall, and the TV miniseries Murder in The Heartlands. The theatre facility is comprised of three separate performance spaces including the 350-seat John Anthony Theatre, the 120-seat Black Box Theatre and the intimate ALT Lab Theatre. The multi-million dollar complex also houses two dressing rooms, a theatre box office, a costume vault and construction shop, a scene and paint shop, in addition to acting/directing classroom spaces. For more information regarding Actor Training at Collin College, please click here. For more information regarding training in the Musical Theatre at Collin College, please click here. Click here to learn more about the Lab Hours policies of the Theatre Department. Click here to download and print a Lab Sheet. Click here to review the Collin Theatre Center Ushering Policy. Click here to review the Collin Theatre Department Scene Shop Dress Code. For more information about the Collin College Theatre Department, contact Chair of Theatre Prof. Brad Baker (972-881-5679); email bbaker@ccccd.edu. For ticket and season subscription information, contact the Collin Theatre Center Box Office at (972-881-5809).
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