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
Jennifer Newman (’11) Named Associate Artistic Director of Schwarzman Center
Opening in September 2020, the Schwarzman Center will become the university’s first center for the arts and student life.
Mary Rose Lloyd (’96) Named Artistic Director of New 42nd Street
Previously the director of artistic programming for the New 42nd Street, Lloyd has been on the advisory board for the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival.
Wendall K. Harrington (Faculty) Wins Paky Lifetime Recognition Award
Harrington, a ground-breaking projection designer was hailed “the godmother of all projectors” by John Simon in New York magazine.
Toni-Leslie James (Faculty) Learns From Every Job
“Teaching has absolutely made me a better designer in every aspect. I understand my process now in a completely different way, once I started to teach it.”
Events
Dec 14, 2019 - Dec 20, 2019
Fun Home
Fun Home is a deeply personal and radically inclusive musical about painful family ties, the challenges of self-discovery, and the joyful exuberance of love.
Feb 01, 2020 - Feb 07, 2020
Alice
Charles Dodgson likes to take pictures of young girls. His intended bride, 11-year old Alice Liddell, is strapped into braces so that she will sit still for her portrait. The child cannot move, but she may yet escape the grip of her suitor––to a place where Hell is above, Heaven below, and the mad ones sing in the language of nonsense: Dreamland.