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| The
Department of Theatre and Drama |
| University
of Wisconsin - Madison |
The Department of Theatre and
Drama/University Theatre is a
collaborative community of artists and
scholars -- faculty, staff and students
-- aiming to achieve the highest level
of excellence in their teaching and
learning, research and creative
endeavors, and outreach to the community
and the state.
A balance of our strong faculty across
the department's three areas of
Acting/Directing, Design & Technology,
and Theatre Research make the Department
of Theatre and Drama uniquely positioned
to teach and study theatre and drama as
a liberal art and teach and practice
theatre as a performing art.
In our teaching we aim to prepare our
undergraduates for a lifetime of
successful engagement with the theatre.
We provide an intellectual, practical
and experiential knowledge of the
performing arts, a working knowledge of
the craft, discipline, and critical
thinking it requires, and a deep
appreciation for the collaborative art
of the theatre. We aim to prepare our
graduate students for successful 21st
century careers in the theatre as both
practitioners and scholars and so
provide focused, professionally oriented
study of theatre practice and
scholarship.
Through production and scholarship we
aim to excite, entertain, pose
questions, challenge assumptions, and
critically examine values and beliefs.
Our production programs and theatre
spaces serve as the instructional
laboratory for our classroom and studio
work as well as providing an interface
with the communities that make up our
audiences.
Through outreach to the campus and
regional community we aim to sustain the
Wisconsin Idea, particularly by using
theatrical performance to address
societal issues through
multidisciplinary and multi-cultural
approaches and increase lifelong
learning opportunities for citizens of
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