Acting
Chair
Walton Wilson
Degrees Offered
M.F.A. and Certificate
Application Deadline is 1/2/2020
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Graduate professional training in every theatrical discipline.
Our Mission
Yale School of Drama and Yale Repertory Theatre train and advance leaders to raise the standard of global professional practice in every theatrical discipline, pursuing excellence in art to promote wonder, empathy, and understanding in the world.
OUR CORE VALUES:
Artistry
We nurture imagination and court inspiration through mastery of skills and techniques, to create fluent, authentic, original storytelling that illuminates the complexity of the human spirit and questions accepted wisdom.
OUR CORE VALUES:
Collaboration
We attend both to process and to results, hearing the voices of colleagues and striving for a collective vision of our goals; we prize the contributions and accomplishments of the individual and of the team.
OUR CORE VALUES:
Discovery
We wrestle with the most compelling issues of our time. Therefore, we foster curiosity, invention, bravery, and humor; we risk and learn from failure and vulnerability in order to build lifelong habits of innovation and revelation.
OUR CORE VALUES:
Inclusion
We commit to fair and ongoing practices that enhance our relationships to theater makers, audiences, and society, finding strength in our diversity, and lowering barriers to participation in the field.
OUR CORE VALUES:
Professionalism
We dedicate our best selves to both training and practice, holding ourselves accountable for a safe, sound, and respectful workplace, animated by good will.
On and Off York Street
Ted Ohl (’77) Joins Schuler Shook as Principal and Leader of New York Office
Ohl’s extensive career in the theater industry has included many new and renovated performance venues in New York and across the country.
Actor Maulik Pancholy (’03) Debuts Pro-LGBT Children’s Novel
The Best at It tells the story of Rahul Kapoor who is taunted by the neighborhood bully and struggles with his crush on a football player.
After 27 Years, Victoria Nolan Stepping Down from Yale Posts
The longtime deputy dean and professor at Yale School of Drama, who also served as Yale Rep’s managing director, will end her tenure next June.
Emily Trask (’11) Named Literary Manager at Pacific Conservatory Theatre
Already a Resident Artist, the actor will assume additional duties including season planning, mentoring students, and managing playwright relationships.
Events
Oct 18, 2019
School of Drama Visitor Days
Please join us in New Haven for one of our Visitor Days. Optional Visitor Days offer prospective students the opportunity to meet the dean, talk with faculty and students, see a production, and tour the campus.
Oct 26, 2019 - Nov 01, 2019
Mr. Burns
Mr. Burns is an incisive dark comedy about the commercialization of art, the human impulse for storytelling, and what’s left when everything else has been destroyed.