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Theatre Program
Saint Mary's offers two types of merit scholarships for artistic excellence in Theatre: Performance and Theatre Studies, and Design and Technical Theatre. Click here to find out how you can apply!
A statement from the Theatre faculty
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We stand in support of Black lives, in our program and beyond.
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We are interrogating the structures of white supremacy we inhabit and have upheld. We recognize that people have experienced harm in our program. We are sorry.
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We recognize and thank the artists of “The Ground We Stand On” for their clear articulation of demands for academic institutions in We See You White American Theatre.
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We are working both individually and collectively, at both the department and the program level, and have been meeting regularly since June. We are committed to continuing to do so.
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We are creating an evolving document/action plan in response to the demands. We pledge to incorporate student voices.
Signed,
Deanna Zibello, Theatre Program Director
Matthew Cohen
Rebecca Engle
Beckett Finn
Victor Malana Maog
Amissa Miller
Tara Sundy
We See You White American Theatre
In July 2020, a group of over 250 BIPOC theatre artists released an open letter and list of demands entitled "We see you, white american theatre." In homage to August Wilson, the group calls themselves The Ground We Stand On.
The Theatre Faculty are currently engaged in discussion of this document, and plan to post a list of action items soon.
Auditions
No audition is required to major or minor in Theatre at Saint Mary’s College. Auditions are required for most productions. The Saint Mary’s Theatre Program practices culturally inclusive casting, and we welcome first-years, transfers and beginners in our productions. All roles are open.
The Theatre Program offers two separate degree tracks:
Our curriculum integrates practical and technical coursework with performance and production opportunities, and with the study of theatre history, theory, and dramatic literature, producing deep thinkers and dynamic theatre-makers.
Theatrical Stage Manager, Production Coordinator and Educator with a demonstrated history of working in the performing arts industry. Highly skilled in Production Management, Music and Theater History, and Technical Theater. A strong professional with a M.F.A in Drama and Arts Management from the University of California, Irvine Claire Trevor School of the Arts, a B.A in Theater from the UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television coupled with more than 30 years of production experience.
Jiwon Chung is a professional actor, director, educator and a key theorist of Theatre of the Oppressed. Grounded in the work of Augusto Boal. with whom he studied extensively, Chung's focus is on theatre as a tool for social and political change. Through Boal's Interactive Theatre, Chung empowers others to challenge, resist, and transform systemic oppression, structural violence and injustice. He is the Artistic Director of Kairos Theater Ensemble and past President of the national organization for Theater of the Oppressed. Chung is also a Visiting Associate Professor of Art and Social Justice at Starr King School/GTU and a Teaching Artist at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre School, though his work as an educator often takes him around the country and across the globe.