Amy Dugas Brown, Program Director

email: ambrown@uarts.edu

THE UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS

David Yager, President and CEO

Kym Moore, Dean, Ira Brind School of Theater Arts

Justin Luján, Program Director, Acting

Amy Dugas Brown, Program Director, Directing, Playwriting, and Production

Katie Donovan, Program Director, Musical Theater

Natalie Robin, Program Director, Theater Design and Technology

Quinn Bauriedel, Program Director, Pig Iron School MFA in Devised Performance

Krista Apple, Assistant Professor

Nick Embree, Associate Professor

Sarah Sanford, Assistant Professor

Fadi Skeiker, Associate Professor

Rob Tucker, Visiting Assistant Professor

Leah Walton, Visiting Assistant Professor

Lindsay Cram, Associate Producer

Madison Claus, Administrative Assistant

Troy Martin-O’Shia, Master Electrician

LeVonne Lindsay, Costume Shop Manager

Larry Fowler, Sound Practicum Instructor

If you want more agency in your storytelling or you're a creative, self-starting collaborator with an interest in theater making or management, the Directing, Playwriting and Production program at University of the Arts' Ira Brind School of Theater Arts is the best place for you.

In fact, we offer the only undergraduate program in the U.S. that combines directing, new play development, stage management and producing in one major.

The Directing, Playwriting and Production curriculum trains the generative theater artist, who wants to write, direct, produce and/or manage theater. The DPP Program builds future theater leaders who have rigor, imagination, and a deep and diverse skill set. All students take three core classes that focus on how to lead through collaboration (Theater Collaboration, Director/Design Collaboration, Senior Project II). They all take classes in each core discipline (Directing, Playwriting, Producing, Stage Management), and are required deepen in at least one of those disciplines. Often, students take all four levels of two of the above disciplines, making them rounded theater artists that are ready for a broad range of work after graduation. In additional to rigorous artistic development, they are also all taught financial leadership and management skills. Artistic innovation and entrepreneurship are at the core of this curriculum.