Theatre

Program Narrative
The curriculum is designed for acting/directing majors and design/technical theatre majors, but will serve as the first two years for theatre education majors as well.

NCC Theatre is production oriented, with fall and spring main stage productions in the college's 350-seat Lipkin Theatre, fall and spring workshop productions in the 125-seat Lab Theatre, and fall and spring workshop productions at the Monroe campus. Also, the annual fall tour travels to NCC's various campuses, providing "outreach" experience for our theatre majors. In the summer, students have the opportunity to perform in the new student orientation play, and in addition student directed plays are performed in found spaces throughout the Lehigh Valley.

Guest directing by former students, returning to display their newly acquired university training, and designing by highly qualified freelance artists, are well established features of Northampton's Theatre Program.

Upon successful completion of the Theatre Program, students will be awarded an Associate in Arts degree in Theatre and be ready to transfer to the university of their choice. Temple University, DeSales University, Cedar Crest College, Albright College, Brooklyn College, University of Iowa, University of Missouri at Kansas City, and University of Connecticut are examples of institutions at which our graduates have recently excelled.

Acting/directing majors audition at the beginning of each semester and prior to rehearsals for each individual production. Design/technical students present sample work at the beginning of each semester for portfolio evaluation. Also, significant production work is required of theatre majors via the practicum components of all theatre courses.

Program Requirements
Before admission to the program, a departmental audition is required for acting/directing majors. For design/technical theatre majors, a portfolio presentation is required. Contact the Admissions Office at 610-861-5500 for further information. Non-program students may continue to enroll in any theatre courses, except CMTH 218.

Program Outcomes
Graduates of the program will:

• Understand art and theatre as essential to life.
• Have a firm working knowledge of the actor's methods and internal processes for bringing a play to life, and insight into the give-and-take, moment-to-moment, relationship between the actors and the audience
• Understand the theatrical and cultural assumptions behind a variety of plays, so that they will be able to pursue a life long study of theatre's literature, and find joy in the work from the audience side as well as the performance side.
• Have deepened and broadened their range of acting and/or technical theatre prowess through the collective effort of theatrical productions.
• Choose and prepare monologues and/or theatrical designs for successful auditions and/or portfolio presentations at their prospective transfer universities.
• Have attained junior level competency in acting, directing, and technical design and production