Theatre Administration - B.F.A.
| The Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Theatre Administration is designed to prepare students for success in the professional theatre industry. By combining conservatory-style training with a strong liberal arts education, our students explore, develop, and hone their craft to become well-rounded artists with valuable skill sets that will prepare them for professional success. |
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Core Learning Goals
The core departmental learning goals have been woven into all aspects of this rigorous four-year program from classroom and studio work, to rehearsals and productions in our mainstage season.
• Technique
• Analysis
• Professionalism
• Collaboration | | 
Theatre and Dance Office Suite
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Internships
| | Hands-on Learning
Combining core theatre courses, entrepreneurship courses in the Tabor School of Business, and hands-on experience, the BFA in Theatre Administration delivers performance learning that prepares students for a number of career options in the performing arts including:
• Managing Director
• Artistic Director
• Administrative Director
• Arts advocacy
• Arts leadership
• Arts entrepreneurship
• Producing |
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Careers
During their four years students will practice strategic planning, marketing, accounting, managing, and public relations through real-world work assignments in the following areas:
• Pipe Dreams Studio Theatre (a student-
managed business venture)
• The promotion and operation of the
production season for the Department
of Theatre and Dance
• The sales and public relations areas of
Kirkland Fine Arts Center
• Student-run business ventures such as First
Step Records and Blue Connection
• The Decatur Area Arts Council
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Pipe Dreams Studio Theatre
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Market Mainstage Productions
| | Mainstage Season
Millikin’s mainstage season provides Theatre Administration majors with many opportunities to gain valuable behind the scenes experience. A typical season will include:
• 2 musicals
• 2 plays
• 1 dance concert
• In alternating seasons an opera co-produced
with the School of Music or a 3rd play
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The Millikin Difference
The small school environment at Millikin University offers students many advantages including:
• Individualized attention
• Studio classes capped at 16
• Annual progress evaluations
• Faculty/student mentorships
and collaborations
• Interactions with students from other
disciplines | | 
Script Library
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Madden Arts Center | Why Choose Millikin?
• Small school environment
• First rate faculty
• National reputation
• Individualized attention
• Realized mainstage designs
• Faculty/student mentorship and collaboration
opportunities
• Conservatory style training within a
liberal arts education
• Master class opportunities with
working professionals
• Study abroad in our London semester |
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