Acting
Chair
Walton Wilson
Degrees Offered
M.F.A. and Certificate
Application Deadline is 1/2/2019
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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
Lupita Nyong’o (’12) a ‘Gracious Role Model for Our Times’
The Academy Award-winning actress discusses storytelling, self-acceptance and Get Out director Jordan Peele’s new film, Us.
Edmund Donovan (’17) Wins Clive Barnes Award
Donovan was honored with this year’s Theater Aritst Award for his work in Rattlestick Playwrights Theater’s Lewiston/Clarkston.
Tarell Alvin McCraney’s ‘High Flying Bird’ Airing on Netflix
The Playwriting Chair’s script is called “idiomatic and poetic in its cadences and pleasingly serpentine in its structure.”
Montana Levi Blanco (’15) is a Costume Designer with Low Budgets and High Style
Blanco is currently designing Daddy by Jeremy O. Harris (Playwriting ’19) at the Vineyard Theater.
Events
Mar 07, 2019 - Mar 09, 2019
The Tempest
Reservations available approximately one week prior to performances.