DU theatre students build the practical skills and real-world experience needed to make an impression on employers after graduation. Our majors go on to exciting careers in performance, dramaturgy, directing and technical theatre, bolstered by our robust job placement and internship network. Theatre education also develops universal skills like critical thinking, communication, public speaking and team management, all of which help students pursue their ambitions in and beyond the creative arts. Plus, our global alumni community and close connections with the vibrant Denver performing arts scene provide access to a world of opportunities after graduation.
Building Career Foundations
We're dedicated to ensuring that students graduate from our theatre program with the skills, knowledge and connections they'll need to pursue their dreams. Theatre students have gone on to roles in prestigious arts and drama programs around the world, and many explore opportunities outside of theatre in fields like public relations, arts education, project management, communications and non-profit work. With the ongoing support of our career services staff and connections with faculty and alumni that will last a lifetime, theatre students emerge from their time on campus ready to pursue their goals.
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Mary Wallace and Athena are brave, and seventeen, and fencers, and training for the Junior Olympics. They practice together, they compete against each other, they spend their lives together. They wish they were friends.
Written by Gracie Gardner
Directed by Nate Cushing
Tickets are free but you must RSVP to theatre@du.edu by January 20, 2023
7:30 p.m.
Hamilton Hall
February 1 - 4, 2023
The Thanksgiving Play
Good intentions collide with absurd assumptions in Larissa FastHorse's wickedly funny satire, as a troupe of terminally "woke" teaching artists scrambles to create a pageant that somehow manages to celebrate both Turkey Day and Native American Heritage Month.
Written by Larissa FastHorse
Directed by Greg Ungar
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, friends in Manhattan's East Village struggle to build the lives of their dreams. Pennilessness, drug abuse, HIV/AIDS, social tension, and political unrest, among other hardships, challenge the group physically and emotionally. Facing the problems head on, they make personal self-discoveries and find what really matters most in life.
Music, lyrics, and book by Jonathan Larson Directed by Ashley Hamilton
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