THEATER AT CORNISH ACTING ORIGINAL WORKS (playwriting, directing) MUSICAL THEATER
Cornish offers serious students of theater a place to develop, explore and take risks in a stimulating, highly collaborative environment. You’ll develop a set of skills that encourages physical and vocal flexibility and a command of a wide range of techniques and theatrical styles. Our program helps you build a toolbox that every artist needs to succeed whether it is in professional theater, television, film, solo performance, improvisation or multi-disciplinary work. Our curriculum builds the physical, vocal, intellectual and imaginative skills necessary for success as a theater artist. Students hone their skills through an array of performance opportunities, including classic and contemporary plays, ensemble productions and original work by student writers. The Acting and Musical Theater tracks give you the skills to explore different areas of performance, while the Original Works Program presents an opportunity to create your own writing, directing and ensemble-generated performance.
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Musical Theater also integrates the exploration of heightened forms of acting with the development of dance and singing skills that are applicable to contemporary musical theater. Faculty and visiting artists are seasoned professionals: actors, directors, playwrights working at some of Seattle’s, and the nation’s, most reputable institutions. You’ll have a wide range of performance opportunities—including 15 to 20 public productions, the Winter New Works Festival, the Myth Projects, cabarets, the Ten Minute Play Festival and many classroom projects—to prepare you for many professional opportunities.